I don't get it. The last cost estimate to demolish Ford Theatre and to replace it with a new 3,000-4,000 amphitheatre is $50m. Couldn't this money be better spent like using some to retrofit the old building and the rest to demolish the Packard? Or just spend it on improving policing in the city?

http://www.redorbit.com/news/busines...d_for_theater/