Quote Originally Posted by Gistok View Post
Ummmm.... the closest residential OR high rise office space is many blocks from this NE corner of downtown... how is it that the land at the NE corner of downtown is more desireable than Grand Circus Park... possible location for a high rise office and residential tower [[surrounded by Broderick, Whitney, Kales, et al). I only mentioned the behind Foxtown area as the location for the soccer stadium. A soccer stadium along Gratiot will end up like the Joe... wedged into an area that may be too small for what they want to built there. I was NOT implying that anyone would want to build a high rise office building in west Foxtown... that would be a silly place to put an office tower...

This Canadian group does NOT have a track record in Detroit... so they're NOT going to get the justice campus location anyway... might as well try to steer them to the Ilitch area. Whether or not THEY WANT it is up to them... just what THEY DO WANT... is not what they're going to get....
I understand what you are saying, but what I'm getting at is:

The Gratiot location would seem ideal to me for a soccer stadium. Easily accessible via Gratiot, near Greektown stuff, etc. It seems 'open'.

I see the area behind the Fox as lacking.

The question of the best usage of that [[Gratiot) land is another question.

It is easy to say that Gilbert would put up some nice stuff to go with his casino and that is better than a soccer stadium.