Although my very strong preference is for the fail jail site on the merits of putting a stadium there, I want to make 2 other points.

1) As with naming children or choosing which kind of pasta to order, it is possible that there are many different good answers to the question, "Where should we put a soccer stadium in Detroit?" My support for fail jail is not a knock on any other site.

2) Having the GilbertGores MLS project take shape at the fail jail site might be the only way to extract both an existing and a potential future eyesore from a prime downtown location. This is an additional reason to support that spot, in my opinion. While there is substantial merit to other potential locations, none of them have the added bonus of moving the jail out of downtown. That is a real plus.