 
Genesyxx
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Username: Genesyxx
Post Number: 760
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 1:41 pm: |    |
The public will be able to weigh in tonight on a plan to redevelop Tiger Stadium.
The City Planning Commission will hold a discussion on the Tiger Stadium Property Redevelopment Project at 6:30 p.m. in the Committee of the Whole Room on the 13th floor of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center at Woodward and Jefferson.
A plan approved by city economic development officials earlier this month calls for the ballpark at Michigan and Trumbull to be razed by September 2008, with most of the historic baseball diamond preserved. Seats and other stadium memorabilia will be sold off.
Those attending tonight's meeting should use the building's Randolph Street entrance after 5 p.m. |
Urbanoutdoors
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Username: Urbanoutdoors
Post Number: 353
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 11:38 pm: | |
Back to the drawing board the DEGC took the 2002 Navin Field plan with them... |
Al_t_publican
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Username: Al_t_publican
Post Number: 199
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 2:58 am: | |
I lived in Corktown for ten years through the '90s. Demolition of the stadium should have begun soon after the last game there in 1999.
Which stood longer after its last game, Olympia or Tiger Stadium? |
Lmichigan
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Username: Lmichigan
Post Number: 5685
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 4:16 am: | |
Yeah, the News is reporting the Planning Commission panned the plan the media has been covering for months. I wonder how this is going to play out with the City Council, next month, though? Is it very likely they'll just go ahead and vote for demolition without a plan for the site? |
Navin_parker
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Username: Navin_parker
Post Number: 16
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 4:32 am: | |
3 Cheers!!!! for the DEGC and The City Planning Commission for being GUTSY enough to take another look at the Navin Field Plan which has the funding BUSINESS VITALITY to succeed and would still allow for the development the community craves.
With the State of Michigan in such shambles and in stater's and outstater's alike giving up on Michigan why not make the best out of something none of the other State's have a historic destination use and they will come!
Don't tear it down without a plan not with my tax-money I say don't be surprised if the Council feels the same the bottom line is "SHOW ME THE MONEY" and the money is behind NAVIN FIELD!! |
Maxcarey
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Username: Maxcarey
Post Number: 127
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 4:49 am: | |
At this point Tiger Stadium. I think that Olympia was torn down in 1986, 6 years after the Wings moved. Its been 8 years for Tiger Stadium. |
Jelk
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Username: Jelk
Post Number: 4452
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 10:41 am: | |
quote:3 Cheers!!!! for the DEGC and The City Planning Commission for being GUTSY enough to take another look at the Navin Field Plan which has the funding BUSINESS VITALITY to succeed and would still allow for the development the community craves.
Not since Squealer of Animal Farm fame have I read a more ludicrous spinning of facts. The Planning Commission never took another look at the Navin Field plan or any look at it. Nor did they make any judgments on the Conservancy effort, as another malcontent suggested either. They just didn't vote on the EDC Project Plan...yet.
The Navin Field plan doesn't have "BUSINESS VITALITY." It's based on housing an independent league baseball team at Tiger Stadium. Independent League ball is a notoriously unreliable product. Teams fail, teams move, the best draw maybe 3000 fans a game - in towns without Major League clubs down the road. |