Shame they sold it. It could have become another urban relic like the Packard factory or the train station.

The Icelander: Shame they sold it. It could have become another urban relic like the Packard factory or the train station.

Or, it could have gone the way of Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium and been torn down.

davidphogan: The Icelander: Shame they sold it. It could have become another urban relic like the Packard factory or the train station.

Or, it could should have gone the way of Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium and been torn down.

FTFY

/raze the whole city and start from scratch
//or turn it into a prison city
///Escape from Detroit, starring Kurt Russell

davidphogan: The Icelander: Shame they sold it. It could have become another urban relic like the Packard factory or the train station.

Or, it could have gone the way of Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium and been torn down.

Considering the roughly $1M a year in just upkeep for the city of Pontiac, I'm surprised they didn't just do that anyway. Now they're going to try to open it back up for a possible soccer team? Interesting.

Hydra: davidphogan: The Icelander: Shame they sold it. It could have become another urban relic like the Packard factory or the train station.

Or, it could should have gone the way of Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium and been torn down.

FTFY

/raze the whole city and start from scratch
//or turn it into a prison city
///Escape from Detroit, starring Kurt Russell

The Pontiac Silverdome is 30 miles from downtown Detroit. While I agree that the Silverdome should have just been toppled, it's nowhere near where you think it is.

That's about one percent of the cost to build it. Sweet deal.

Not so fast. There was an earlier deal that Pontiac would not accept and a judge has issued an injunction to stop this new sale.

Apparently the earlier bidder, who is black, is claiming racial discrimination against the Mayor in denying his bid. Fark: the Mayor's black and the developer has never been a developer, but is a civil rights attorney.

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That would make one heck of a bachelor pad.

/there's a goal post in this bedroom.

I submitted this two days ago with a much funnier headline.

And the real estate in the area where they bought the new cowboys stadium is pretty low end.

Now can my band play a show there?

Leeds37: The Pontiac Silverdome is 30 miles from downtown Detroit. While I agree that the Silverdome should have just been toppled, it's nowhere near where you think it is.

can we just say all of Michigan?

Just get rid of the farking thing at this point. The dome only stays up due to their being more interior pressure in the dome than outside, making it expensive to keep that sucker up. Last thing the city of Pontiac needs to be footing the bill for.

SlothB77: can we just say all of Michigan?

As much as I love Michigan, there are some definite areas which need annexing. I'd start with Flint first, though.

Low miles, barely won in.

whipbambucket: That would make one heck of a bachelor pad.

/there's a goal post in this bedroom.

I'm honestly surprised an eccentric millionaire didn't buy it, just to own a football stadium.

If the City of Pontiac ACCEPTS that offer, their politicians truly deserve to be kicked out of office. SOMEONE should be able to pony up more than that. As someone above pointed out, the land SHOULD be worth more than that, and will be if all they do with the stadium for the next 10 years is....nothing.

Bill the unknowing: If the City of Pontiac ACCEPTS that offer, their politicians truly deserve to be kicked out of office. SOMEONE should be able to pony up more than that. As someone above pointed out, the land SHOULD be worth more than that, and will be if all they do with the stadium for the next 10 years is....nothing.

It will cost nearly that much just to demolish it. Doing nothing is not an option, as it needs to be maintained so as to not become an environmental threat.

Bill the unknowing: If the City of Pontiac ACCEPTS that offer, their politicians truly deserve to be kicked out of office. SOMEONE should be able to pony up more than that. As someone above pointed out, the land SHOULD be worth more than that, and will be if all they do with the stadium for the next 10 years is....nothing.

While they are unhappy with the offer as stated here, (new window) it was better to get it off the books as opposed to continuing spending $1.5M per year in upkeep of the property.

he winning bid for the stadium went to a group of real estate investors from Toronto who plan to use the stadium for sporting events, including men's and women's major league soccer games, said Leeb.

It stands to reason that if the area is under such deep depression, no one is going to have any money to attend your farking stupid ass soccer games. durrr....

Bill the unknowing: If the City of Pontiac ACCEPTS that offer, their politicians truly deserve to be kicked out of office. SOMEONE should be able to pony up more than that. As someone above pointed out, the land SHOULD be worth more than that, and will be if all they do with the stadium for the next 10 years is....nothing.

Problem is that it was done as an auction. It's not clear what the rules of the auction were, but apparently there was no minimum bid (3 other bidders must have bid less) and it was probably set up to be binding and requiring one selection.

They should have at least set a minimum bid around $1 mil or so to make sure that at least the land value was covered.

Salacious Salad: And the real estate in the area where they bought the new cowboys stadium is pretty low end.

Wut? Between Six Flags and Rangers Stadium? Yea, some real low end stuff there...*facepalm*

or the cost of a one-bedroom 'garden level' fixer-upper in boston.

And it costs $1.5 million in maintenance a year.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Salacious Salad: And the real estate in the area where they bought the new cowboys stadium is pretty low end.

Wut? Between Six Flags and Rangers Stadium? Yea, some real low end stuff there...*facepalm*

Wait. I've been told on Fark that they leveled Taco Town to build Cowboys Stadium and so it's a wonderful thing that Jerry did. Are you telling me that this was in fact a great area and that Jerry paid a lot of money for the land?

Rapmaster2000: Lt. Cheese Weasel: Salacious Salad: And the real estate in the area where they bought the new cowboys stadium is pretty low end.

Wut? Between Six Flags and Rangers Stadium? Yea, some real low end stuff there...*facepalm*

Wait. I've been told on Fark that they leveled Taco Town to build Cowboys Stadium and so it's a wonderful thing that Jerry did. Are you telling me that this was in fact a great area and that Jerry paid a lot of money for the land?

He made a few people well off by buying their property, but it wasn't all slums he tore down to build to begin with. Just saying.

whipbambucket
That would make one heck of a bachelor pad.

/there's a goal post in this bedroom.

I can see it now; "hey baby, how about you and I head to my place and split some uprights."

And here comes the army of people who have never been here making assumptions about Detroit and Michigan in general.

hulk hogan meat shoes2009-11-19 12:18:55 PM And here comes the army of people who have never been here making assumptions about Detroit and Michigan in general.
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I'm a west sider, and I consider everything past Lansing to be 'Detroit'

/sorry about the formatting, doing this on my crackberry.

hulk hogan meat shoes: And here comes the army of people who have never been here making assumptions about Detroit and Michigan in general.

As a native Texan, I find your butthurty amusing.

Yet once again, life imitates The Onion:

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If I had enough money I'd buy the whole city and revitalize it myself. So sad...

ytterbium: Yet once again, life imitates The Onion:

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If I had enough money I'd buy the whole city and revitalize it myself. So sad...

Except that the leaders in Detroit would create fake companies to buy the properties you want to buy, and then sell those properties to you at hyper-inflated prices.

And the crumbling Cobo Hall... it's a GEM, I tells ya!

/Be respectful! You may not do that at home, but you gonna do it up in here!

ytterbium: Yet once again, life imitates The Onion:

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If I had enough money I'd buy the whole city and revitalize it myself. So sad...

I read that story, and it wasnt even close to reality. The junkies took the copper a decade ago, and the aluminum last year.

whipbambucket: hulk hogan meat shoes And here comes the army of people who have never been here making assumptions about Detroit and Michigan in general.

I'm a west sider, and I consider everything past Lansing to be 'Detroit'

/sorry about the formatting, doing this on my crackberry.

I'm in Lansing, there's not much to write home about this place either. If the government didn't operate out of here it would have gone the way of Detroit long ago.

/moving back to civilization in April!

tophergartman 2009-11-19 02:23:53 PM
whipbambucket: hulk hogan meat shoes And here comes the army of people who have never been here making assumptions about Detroit and Michigan in general.

I'm a west sider, and I consider everything past Lansing to be 'Detroit'

/sorry about the formatting, doing this on my crackberry.

I'm in Lansing, there's not much to write home about this place either. If the government didn't operate out of here it would have gone the way of Detroit long ago.

/moving back to civilization in April!

I left Lansing almost 2 years ago for Chicago. I still have a house there if anyone wants to buy it.

Leeds37: Considering the roughly $1M a year in just upkeep for the city of Pontiac, I'm surprised they didn't just do that anyway. Now they're going to try to open it back up for a possible soccer team? Interesting.

Yeah, a soccer team that will fill 1/5 of the stadium if they're lucky. But hey, why not. The Silverdome is still in fine shape. It seems like a waste to just leave it there doing nothing but what else is there for it to do? Too bad they can't just take the thing apart and transport it somewhere else for another team, maybe a college team that could use a new stadium or something.

I don't understand the headline. You're comparing the sale of a 35 year old run down stadium with one of those brand spankin' new state-of-the-art jobs? That's like me making a snarky headline about Chevies being cheap because a 1990 lumina costs $800 while a new civic cost $16,000.

and that's me completely ignoring the fact that you are implying that the pontiac silverdome is in detroit.

Pontiac's political and economic structure is as corrupt as hell. I'm originally from Pontiac and every year since the Lions left the city would receive multi-million-dollar offers to buy the Silverdome. And every year the deal would fall through because of some feeble lame-ass excuse which usually translated to not enough monies/favors being offered to the mayor, council-members and/or their cronies. Now the economy has collapsed the Silverdome is being sold for less than the price of homes in Birmingham (new window). Bastards.

I would buy the Silverdome for a dollar.

But I will say this. Petosky & Charlevoix area's are wonderful in the summertime. It's the nicest weekend of the year up there.

What do I have to do to put you into this stadium today?