Yeah....all the bangers in the hood just love them some soccer!!!!!!
The city looks like a nuclear bomb hit it and they want to build a soccer stadium in the middle of it. It will look strange. How long before it looks as run down and beat up as most of the other unused buildings in Detroit?
Building a brand new stadium for soccer ?
Seriously, how stupid is that ? that’s a dumb idea anywhere in the country...
Ford Field would work just fine...for a new team...
I wonder how many MLS teams are actually viable entities....
Makes a great place to make peeps go hunger games on each other.
hacky sack stadium would be a better fit?
1. Shrink the physical size of the city--that could happen within the next ten years.
2. Completely redo the city employees pension program--already done.
3. Transition the city from depending on the automotive industry to one based on US-Canada trans-border trade--about to happen with the construction of the Gordie Howe International Crossing bridge to bypass the bottleneck called the Ambassador Bridge.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Detroit could use a completed Wayne County jail more than it could use a soccer stadium.
This reminds me of the effort of Camden, NJ to have a minor league baseball team in town. They spent taxpayer dollars on a beautiful stadium—a dozen years later the team left after years of terrible attendance.
The empty stadium sits there as a reminder of the stupidity/corruption of local officials.
You can be sure any stadium construction project involves kickbacks to local officials and a ripoff of local and state taxpayers.
21,574 fans at STADIUMS that hold 60,000-80,000
17,826 fans at ARENAS that hold less than 20,000
Now I'm sure there are a stadium or two that hold less than 60 and an arena or two that hold more than 20, but to use this comparison is pure BS!
Also, I'll bet my next pension check that 21,574 figure is total attendance, not PAID attendance.
Figures lie and liars figure.