What is going on at Red Wings arena site?

[emu steve]

While it is winter outside, I guess the 'hot stove debate' about public dollars [[and the process for approving them) for sports facilities and their effect on development in the neighboring areas continues...

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nb...oney/96263028/

I like these few paragraphs which are 'chapter and verse' of my views [[emphasis mine):

"Arn Tellem was once a skeptic.

As a longtime Los Angeles resident, the Palace Sports & Entertainment vice chairman now readily admits he was doubtful that the opening of Staples Center in 1999 would somehow transform a desolate landscape of parking lots.

But the rise of retail and residential investment in downtown L.A. and a similar occurrence with the MCI Center [[now Verizon Center) in the Chinatown neighborhood in Washington, D.C., in 1997 has convinced Tellem of the potential of Little Caesars Arena and the surrounding development to work similar magic in downtown Detroit. "

When I get a chance I be interested in learned more about the DDDA. ​