Quote Originally Posted by 48091 View Post
Goose raises a good question as to why the city is busy chasing people off the old Tiger Stadium site instead of generating revenue from a building it's going to demolish.
I can think of insurance from lawsuits for one.

If somebody is allowed to help themselves to a chair like strawberries in a u pickem strawberry field and trips and busts their kneecap because a plate on the ground was missing or the area was poorly lit, the owner of the property can be sued. If plaster falls on someone and they cut their head open, the property owner can be sued. So if John Public can go through it, you need insurance, you need the area properly lit, you need an engineer to make sure it's safe to walk through, etc. It all costs money. If a voluntary organization that has their own insurance like Habitat doesn't want it, it gets thrown in the garbage.