General Tiger Discussion

[bobrob2004]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

what about the people that live there now?

That site has nothing to do with the Ilitch org anymore.

 

I should have phrased it in past tense. It's too late now.  

[IdahoBert]

5 hours ago, bobrob2004 said:

I would would also eliminate the Ferris wheel and the merry-go-round.  This is a baseball event, not a fair.  It never made any sense to have these things.  

You want to take your kids to a ball game but it lasts four hours. It’s an amenity for parents. I’ve only seen one game at Comerica because I live 2000 miles away so I don’t know how often those amenities, however, are actually used. 

[CMRivdogs]

I don't remember seeing it here, but Andrew Romaine retired last week. Some comments about filling some big shoes in Detroit...

 

 

 

[bobrob2004]

1 hour ago, IdahoBert said:

You want to take your kids to a ball game but it lasts four hours. It’s an amenity for parents. I’ve only seen one game at Comerica because I live 2000 miles away so I don’t know how often those amenities, however, are actually used. 

If your kids aren't interested in watching a ballgame, don't take them to a ballgame. 

[oblong]

They aren’t hurting anything. It’s not like it prevents seating areas or blocks potential amenities. 

[JackPine]

8 hours ago, bobrob2004 said:

I would build a parking lot at the site of old Tiger Stadium.  I know that's a controversial topic, but there needs to be more parking.  

Why isnt there a ramp where the existing lot is?

[JackPine]

1 minute ago, JackPine said:

Why isnt there a ramp where the existing lot is?

I see, there already is quite a few garages around the park, So the new question is, why not convert one of the surface lots to a garage? Pretty obvious I don't live in Detroit huh?

[casimir]

9 hours ago, bobrob2004 said:

If your kids aren't interested in watching a ballgame, don't take them to a ballgame. 

Or, if you don't like riding a ferris wheel or carousel while you're at a ballgame, you can easily avoid it.

[casimir]

9 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

I don't remember seeing it here, but Andrew Romaine retired last week. Some comments about filling some big shoes in Detroit...

 

 

 

That's pretty good.

[oblong]

8 hours ago, JackPine said:

I see, there already is quite a few garages around the park, So the new question is, why not convert one of the surface lots to a garage? Pretty obvious I don't live in Detroit huh?

The lots can be seen as a placeholder in case other developments pop up. For example they announced yesterday some new construction for UM that's going to take up one of the lots that I started to use since everything there is cashless now.  You can prepay and use a barcode to get in and out.

 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

The lots can be seen as a placeholder in case other developments pop up. For example they announced yesterday some new construction for UM that's going to take up one of the lots that I started to use since everything there is cashless now.  You can prepay and use a barcode to get in and out.

 

Could this be the reincarnation of Ross's project? There was a story a few day ago that UM now has sole ownership of the Rackham bldg at Farnsworth near the Museum/Library area and they are going to spend 40 million to rehab it for use as what sounds like a campus extension service but it included no news about the failed UM Ross/Gilbert innovation center. I had read somewhere else that were weren't any other tracts in the size range of the Gratiot/St Antione Site (14 acres) available in DT area - that while Ilitch et al hold a good deal of developable land, nothing was contiguous in that size range. That surprised me. 

 

[CMRivdogs]

Here's the story. What an ugly building. My wife described it as a combination toaster/file holder design

https://record.umich.edu/articles/detroit-center-for-innovation-to-be-built-in-the-district-detroit/

[gehringer_2]

26 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Here's the story. What an ugly building. My wife described it as a combination toaster/file holder design

https://record.umich.edu/articles/detroit-center-for-innovation-to-be-built-in-the-district-detroit/

LOL - the one day I don't see the 'Record'.

Sounds like a white elephant to me. And quite the scale back from the plan for a 14 acre project at the St. Antione site to 3 acres in 'the District'. Mr Ross is apparently so hot to have his name on another building that whether it makes sense for the U is a minor concern. At least with the current siting they can sell it back to WSU after Ross dies.

Edited December 14, 2021 by gehringer_2

[Shinzaki]

On 12/13/2021 at 3:49 AM, Tenacious D said:

Yes, but where do you stand on Cavan Biggio or Keston Hiura?  

Depends...what do their moms look like?

[oblong]

the building looks like the old Holiday Inn signs.

 

[gehringer_2]

11 minutes ago, oblong said:

the building looks like the old Holiday Inn signs.

 

Ross probably had a sense of something familiar that he never identified....

[Motor City Sonics]

15 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

I don't remember seeing it here, but Andrew Romaine retired last week. Some comments about filling some big shoes in Detroit...

 

[Dan Gilmore]

Lettuce not quibble about spelling.

[lordstanley]

I left my seat during a game in late July 2014 to take my then 8 year olddaughter on the ferris wheel. I was at the top of the ferris wheel when news of the Austin Jackson-David Price deal broke. By time I got back to my seat Austin was gone from the outfield.

[lordstanley]

2 minutes ago, Dan Gilmore said:

Lettuce not quibble about spelling.

Good advice, because a quibble about spelling might lead to a rhubard.

[sabretooth]

16 hours ago, bobrob2004 said:

If your kids aren't interested in watching a ballgame, don't take them to a ballgame. 

🙄

[John_Brian_K]

3 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Here's the story. What an ugly building. My wife described it as a combination toaster/file holder design

https://record.umich.edu/articles/detroit-center-for-innovation-to-be-built-in-the-district-detroit/

It is different...I like it.

[John_Brian_K]

23 hours ago, bobrob2004 said:

I would build a parking lot at the site of old Tiger Stadium.  I know that's a controversial topic, but there needs to be more parking.  

It is an apartment complex called the corner now and the field is still there.

[RandyMarsh]

44 minutes ago, John_Brian_K said:

It is different...I like it.

Yeah me too, I can definitely see the toaster in it but I like unique looking buildings like that.

[John_Brian_K]

52 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

Yeah me too, I can definitely see the toaster in it but I like unique looking buildings like that.

Same.  I am sick of the same cookie cutter buildings that go up because they are the cheapest.  Add a little flare to downtown...I am good with that.