[Andy_B]

http://freep.com/article/20091116/NE...for-Silverdome

"A family-owned Toronto real estate company has submitted a winning bid of $583,000 for the Pontiac Silverdome, former home of the Detroit Lions until they moved to Ford Field in 2002, and nearly 130 adjacent acres.

The winning bidder, one of four and whose identity has not yet been released, plans to use the facility for a men's Major League Soccer team and women's professional soccer teams, Fred Leeb, Pontiac’s emergency financial manager, told the Free Press in an exclusive interview.

[Mateofelipe]

What's Trevor Francis doing these days?

[GalaxyFoLife]

This is very interesting. Detroit Mustangs 2012

[CHI_TOWN_BALLA]

its gonna be hard to pull an MLS team there with a 80,000+ capacity, bad city and just bad place for any business to go. Nice idea though, hope they prove me wrong. I wouldn't mind a next door neighbor for the Fire.

[milicz]

Well that sounds like an awful idea, but what do I know?

[yellowbismark]

cool, sounds interesting

now what REALLY would have been cool is if Tiger Stadium were up for bid and the winning bid wanted to use it for MLS, but it's too late for that now

[Mr. Warmth]

What was the 2nd bid? $8,952.50

Original Construction Cost: $55,700,000
Sale Price: $583,000 (1.05% of original cost)

A staggering loss of value

[Neuwerld]

Dang, that's cheap. Stadium and 127 acres for 583k?

[athletics68]

Won't work unless they demolish the Silverdome and build a stadium that's a better size for soccer in the US. I mean the Silverdome as it stands now is almost a SSS bigger than Qwest Field. And it has none of the soccer friendly design traits as Qwest does.

[ArsenalMetro]

That's interesting. I'm not going to advocate Detroit to MLS, but it's interesting, for sure.