Hoedown moved to Comerica Park Parking Lot

**401don** · March-12-12, 02:13 PM

Tigers are home May 18 weekend, which is when the event was held last yr, the Memorial weekend is Movement, and the Tigers are home again June 2 so they really have no choice about the schedule.
Maybe they no longer have a title sponsor, which would have offset the Hart Plaza rent.

**rb336** · March-12-12, 02:34 PM

If it is closed due to renovations, that would be OK. They can charge at Hart Plaza, so it can't be just so they can charge admission. Have they totally cleared the Ford Aud site?

**gthomas** · March-12-12, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by rb336

If it is closed due to renovations, that would be OK. They can charge at Hart Plaza, so it can't be just so they can charge admission. Have they totally cleared the Ford Aud site?

Yes, its completely cleared and leveled, more and likely sit vacant like the rest of city's thousands vacant lots, especially Downtown. Include this on the list with Ford Auditorium site: Lafayette Building [[turned "Community Garden", with no community), Woodward, Monroe, and Statler site, Surface gravel parking lots..I meant "Foxtown", Old Tiger Stadium site..etc.

Mayor Bing should be VERY proud of his accomplishments...or are they?

**poobert** · March-12-12, 02:35 PM

Bing hailed tearing down the Ford Auditorium in his State of the City speech as big progress [[because demolition is progress in a city that is over 1/3 empty lots and probably another 1/3 vacant structures) and about having an ampitheatre in its place for more events, so there is pretty much no way Hart Plaza is going anywhere, except under bankruptcy.