Thanks for making MY POINT:
Sports facilities and entertainment are best done as part of a coordinated effort to create a sports and entertainment area.
Philly did something like this but put it in a out-of-the-way area.
I think we all agree it was not a smart idea. I guess they looked for a lot of cheap land near a freeway.
I don't consider that smart.
Yankee Stadium is in the middle of whatever. When I went there the year the new stadium opened, I looked around and got on the subway after the game. I spend $0.00 outside the stadium. I beat cheeks back to Manhattan.
Nothing there of interest near the stadium.
Sports facilities need to be placed where people want to be and spend time.
Not the Bronx, not Romulus, etc.
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The more I think of these threads the more silly I think they are:
IF Ilitch doesn't build in the CBD area, where should he build?
Pontiac? Downriver? Romulus? 8-mile and Woodward?
Someone TELL ME a BETTER LOCATION than Woodward/Fisher.
It is a dichotomy: Woodward/Fisher vs. WHAT?
and we'll compare and contrast the other alternatives...
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