Quote Originally Posted by EL Jimbo View Post
You laugh at that, but the Department of Homeland Security is taking a VERY active role in working with college athletic departments and professional sports franchises in not only recommending particular design elements in new stadium construction or renovation of existing facility, but DEMANDING them.

I know for a fact that several of the recent upgrades to improve Spartan Stadium in East Lansing included aspects that came straight from DHS safety requirements.
Yeah, but if the design element is "no buildings allowed nearby", DHS should be laughed out of the room. And, honestly, who cares what they recommend? Have we been suffering a string of stadium-related safety crises or terrorist attacks? If Washington DC has a hockey/basketball arena [[Verizon Center) totally surrounded by other buildings with no "buffer" at all, I bet Detroit can manage to do whatever works for Detroit.