Comment 45231

By jason (registered) | Posted August 09, 2010 at 13:40:56

I know that there is a small very passionate very vocal minority but the populace as a whole does not want to fight to go downtown to see a game.

your passion and opinion is more than welcome, but this statement is flat out untrue.
The list of organizations, agencies, community groups, business groups and sheer number of the overall population is very heavily weighted in favour of the WH.

Nor is this statement true of other cities working hard to bring back their downtowns - Pittsburgh and especially Detroit come to mind as similar NorthEast industrial cities who are fighting back. According to Bob Young, Detroit had it made with their beautiful domed stadium surrounded by acres of parking. Yet their sports teams now play in downtown Detroit surrounded by dense urbanism, not parking.

Oh, and by the way, the Silverdome (and associated 125 acres) was a fantastic investment in 1975 evidently. If the pro-EM folks had numbers like this on their side they'd be screaming them from the Mountain-top. Detroit is just one example of many.

http://detnews.com/article/20091117/METR...

Comment edited by jason on 2010-08-09 12:43:38

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