The Pontiac Silverdome, long abandoned by the Detroit Lions, which was a state of the art stadium when it first opened Aug. 23, 1975, is coming down.
The stadium will be demolished in the next several months under an agreement between the city and the stadium's ownership group, reports Kirk Pinho of Crain's Detroit Business.
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If it comes to fruition, it would mark the next major step in finding a new use for the 127.5-acre site that used to host tens of thousands of Detroit Lions fans when the team played there until moving to Ford Field downtown in 2002. The stadium has been filmed and photographed strewn with debris and is generally considered an eyesore in the city of 60,000 people.
A specific demolition timeframe has not been established, but Mayor Deirdre Waterman said Tuesday afternoon that the consent agreement reached requires that the Toronto-based owners Triple Properties Inc. retain a demolition contractor by May 12 and present a scope of work to the city by June 9.
