What's the 411 on the Tiger Stadium RFP

[royce]

An RFP was put out for redeveloping the Tiger Stadium site. This occurred back in the summer and around Augest 15, 2010 the RFPs were due. Has anybody heard anything on this topic?

[Stosh]

Actually,yes.http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/in..._mixed-us.html

[Gistok]

Aren't there any empty existing schools in the area that can have adaptive reuse??

Seems kind of dumb to build one from scratch when so many have closed over the years...

[Khartoum]

^Yeah, but using old schools doesn't put money in crook pockets.

[drjeff]

Of all the empty spaces in the city that need filling, this is not one of them. Leave the field there as a park. Don't destroy the remaining history there.

[casscorridor]

Of all the empty spaces in the city that need filling, this is not one of them. Leave the field there as a park. Don't destroy the remaining history there.

They are building around the field.

[1KielsonDrive]

Any mention of RFP's for the Tiger Stadium site was just smoke up the butt. They knew they didn't have a chance in hell of selling/developing the site. Just another City of Detroit diversionary [[albeit another lousy one) tactic to tear down one of the few structures in Detroit that still have meaning to the general population. Think Little Harry's, Madison-Lennox, Adam's Theatre, etc, etc, ad infinitum. Detroit City Hall is SICK.

[royce]

A school on the Tiger Stadium site is interesting, but like many have said, "Why build a brand new school building when there are dozens of former DPS schools abandoned and boarded up?" There is a vacant DPS school on the northeast corner of Trumbull and the Fisher Freeway service drive that just closed this June that could be used again as a school for Corktown residents.

Costing a little more money, but saving an existing building, I have imagined that the Roosevelt Warehouse next to the train depot could be wonderfully rehabbed into a school. Take out the middle section for an atrium [[ think cafeteria or arboretum, with inner classrooms with large windows facing this area). Now, that would be cool. You have your school for Corktown and you use Tiger Stadium for a mixed-use development that includes residential and retail.

[preserve]

There is an empty school building across from the Roosevelt
Warehouse, owned by the archdiocese. You are right, why
build new when you can use the existing structures?

[Detroitnerd]

There is an empty school building across from the Roosevelt
Warehouse, owned by the archdiocese. You are right, why
build new when you can use the existing structures?

There is more money to be made, kicked back and looted when you demolish things, then need to build new later. Our local units of government have been subsidizing new construction and demolition for decades now. As a result, few companies are involved in rehabs, and these are mostly small, politically unconnected enterprises.

You get the sort of business you subsidize. You get the skills you subsidize.

And when all you have is a hammer, every job looks like a nail.

[swingline]

Any mention of RFP's for the Tiger Stadium site was just smoke up the butt. They knew they didn't have a chance in hell of selling/developing the site. Just another City of Detroit diversionary [[albeit another lousy one) tactic to tear down one of the few structures in Detroit that still have meaning to the general population. Think Little Harry's, Madison-Lennox, Adam's Theatre, etc, etc, ad infinitum. Detroit City Hall is SICK.

This RFP did not cause the demolition of Tiger Stadium. All of the drama surrounding the temination of the DEGC agreement with the Tiger Stadium Conservancy and the subsequent demolition occurred well before this RFP was issued.

Also, while incorporating the ballfield into a new development might be feasible and work to enhance a proposed project, transforming the whole site into parkland makes no sense at all. Corktown and the city need built developments, not more grass to cut.