Interest building to build a 5K Soccer Stadium

**Bham1982** · July-20-14, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by emu steve

Yes, get rid of blight with a stadium.

No, the stadium creates the blight.

In Detroit, the deadest downtown blocks those containing Comerica and Ford Field. That isn't a coincidence, and that's why sports arenas are usually put away from intact neighborhoods, because they are so damaging to the streetscape.

The massive parking needs, the huge, monotonous, anti-pedestrian streetfronts, and the fact the blocks are dead 95% of the time pretty much guarantees a moribund neighborhood. Comerica tore down prewar highrises for a parking field.

**emu steve** · July-20-14, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by Bham1982

No, the stadium creates the blight.

In Detroit, the deadest downtown blocks those containing Comerica and Ford Field. That isn't a coincidence, and that's why sports arenas are usually put away from intact neighborhoods, because they are so damaging to the streetscape.

The massive parking needs, the huge, monotonous, anti-pedestrian streetfronts, and the fact the blocks are dead 95% of the time pretty much guarantees a moribund neighborhood. Comerica tore down prewar highrises for a parking field.

NO new parking required for a 5K soccer stadium within the sports and entertainment district and a stadium is more appealing than a 'field of weeds'...