June 16, 2009 Tiger Stadium Demo

**EastsideAl** · June-16-09, 06:34 PM

Yay! Now that's what I call progress!

Another rubble-strewn vacant lot. Moving Detroit forward!!

heywood mccrakin · June-17-09, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by EastsideAl

Yay! Now that's what I call progress!

Another rubble-strewn vacant lot. Moving Detroit forward!!

Dumb question....If one of you felt that the stadium should have been kept up, why didnt you put up the money to save it?

Seems to me if there was a viable use for the old park, someone shouldd have put up the money, right?

**eriedearie** · June-17-09, 01:18 PM

Thanks to Cman for the great picture and thanks to EastsideAl for the bit of history! It is an intriguing building.

And Ray - the "urban gentleman" did not go unnoticed by me. He found a shady spot to take a break!

**EastsideAl** · June-17-09, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by heywood mccrakin

Dumb question....If one of you felt that the stadium should have been kept up, why didnt you put up the money to save it?

Seems to me if there was a viable use for the old park, someone shouldd have put up the money, right?

We did... as much as was going to be raised for any preservation in this horrible economy - and there are several threads about it here. The city was getting free security, etc. on those grounds, and a plan to redevelop and reuse the remaining original Navin Field portions of the stadium with minimal or no use of public funds. But, no, demolition is progress here in the City of Detroit. So there's no waiting for things to come together, the DEGC must have its vacant lot NOW!!