Not that this old debate needs to be rehashed [[since the stadium's gone and there's nothing to be done about that now) but my memory is pretty intact, and what I remember is that there was a partially-funded plan, with wide community support as well as backing from Sen. Carl Levin, to reuse the site. The possibility of raising the remaining funds existed, but no one said it would be easy to get there. I'm sure that the money could have been raised eventually. But the fundamental problem is there was absolutely no hurry to demolish, since the DEGC had, and has, no other plans to redevelop the site.
Thanks to the citizenry for cleaning the diamond. In response to Gwinevere, though, of course the city isn't going to maintain it, since they had no problem demolishing it in the first place. That's why I think that repairing the diamond and reusing it is one good way of ensuring it is preserved as a ballfield, which I believe is the best possible future for that site.
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