Tiger Stadium likely to be demolished...

Love the place, but it's a white elephant now, and the immediate neighborhood's no bargain.

 

See Robert Moses and destruction of New York City landmarks basically from the end of WWII until the 19-70s. The most egregious example of urban renewal was the destruction of the old Pennsylvania Station.

 

We've talked about Detroit real estate before. I think they were selling houses for five bucks a pop this winter.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/posts/1628641/

 

They still do high school playoff games there, and the very occasional motorsports/tractor pull kind of event. The Cougars have been playing at Robertson Stadium for a year or two, at least.

 

Was dining with a Canadian couple who loved Tiger Stadium and I understand you can still see it on Google Maps, and how fucked up and overgrown it is inside.

 

The NY Times link in the first post on this thread has some interior shots of Tiger Stadium. Dandelions and overgrown grass make up the ground and apparently a small tree is growing through some concrete. Plus that auction company gutted the ballpark in late last summer for that online auction.

 

Take it away, Ol' Blue Eyes.

 

Not for nothing, but how hard would it be to hire a groundskeeper, or have a couple muni employees mow the grass and spray for weeds a few times in the summer? A tree growing through concrete? That is a little more than neglect.

 

None of that is really visible from what I can see, but here is the satellite photo of it:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=tiger%20stadium&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il

 

If you want to read a great biography, I'd suggest Robert Caro's Pulitzer monumental prize winning tome on Moses.

Moses was the Antichrist of urban planning and his influence extended far beyond New York. Boston's Big Dig was a direct result of his urban ideology.

The counterpoint to his urban style was Jane Jacob's whose "Death and Life of Great American Cities" and "The Economy of Cities" which has had more influence on urban design since Moses than any single author.

 

What they did to Penn Station to facilitate the current MSG was criminal.

CRIMINAL.

 

This is a city that scarcely cares about the appearance of its downtown area.

Baseball should have thrown a big party in the joint before it went to hell, let everyone tell their stories and relive memories and then be done with it.