Price Negotiations for Comerica Park Lots on Woodward.

[401don]

This is interesting. Am I the only one who assumed Ilitch already owned these lots? I forgot they would be owned by the County, same as the ballpark. Meanwhile Ilitch got the parking revenue. Explains why he was in no hurry to develop them.
https://www.freep.com/story/money/bu...d/70737702007/

[MichaelAnthonyVideos]

The county owns them yet the Ilitch's get the revenue? Unbelievable.

[401don]

The county owns them yet the Ilitch's get the revenue? Unbelievable.

It's considered part of the ballpark footprint, same as the parking structures on the north side. Teams don't want to own the stadiums so they're not on the hook for property taxes or tearing them down, same as Joe Louis and Tiger Stadium.

[Burnsie]

Some $686,000 to remove the Hotel Wolverine foundation. Too bad it wasn't renovated in the '90s, but it had to be destroyed because Illitch wanted that tax free parking revenue. Same with needlessly relocating the Elwood Grill.

[casscorridor]

Comical how corrupt Detroit is and has been.

“At the end of the day, the County Executive has one goal — to keep the Reds Wings, Tigers and Pistons in Detroit forever," Mosallam said Friday.

These are profitable *privately* owned businesses and it should not be the interest of the County or City to subsidize them.

Imagined if the County Executive spent as much energy focusing on serving his actual residents!

It's outrageous.

[1953]

The sports teams play a special role in the county's economy, so I'd be surprised if the county exec didn't try especially hard to keep them.