The epicentre of it all for the past 38 years has been Joe Louis Arena. And at the end of the year it will close for good. I went to Detroit in March expecting to learn what the arena meant to the people and the city. Part of the community atmosphere is due to the number of locally grown stars on the current squad. Four players on this team are from the state of Michigan. And a big part of that's going to be the new arena, and the mall and the stuff going around it," he said.
That's why we need the state to jump onside, and the sooner the better, if we're going to revitalize Michigan. It's got to start right here in Detroit. Rick Snyder's campaign said before Babcock's comments that he preferred that private interests finance a new arena and that any state money should be loans with repayment guarantees.
Wings owner Mike Ilitch, billionaire founder of a pizza, sports and entertainment empire, has said for more than five years that he wants to build a downtown hockey arena. He has indicated that financing is one of the snags in constructing such a facility.
The state financed infrastructure improvements. Economic experts and a pollster speculate that Ilitch won't get as much public aid for an arena. There has been a real estate buying frenzy in the area, which is several blocks north of the Fox Theatre, headquarters of Ilitch Holdings. The bar, at the corner of Temple and Cass, is in the middle of the land acquisitions.
A spokesman for Taubman said the developer was not working on mall plans for the area. Since , at least 22 properties have been purchased or optioned by various entities. Metro Detroit real estate experts say the amount of land being accumulated in the area and the high sales prices likely mean someone is trying to amass enough property to build something big.
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More: Joe Louis Arena demolition continues, projected to be completed late summer. In March, the developer sold the arena parking garage, W.
Once inside the Joe you found yourself in a wide, utilitarian concourse that served both the lower and upper bowls. There was no segregation by economics at Joe Louis Arena; everyone used the same washrooms, bought the same food, and visited the same souvenir stands, regardless if you were sitting at ice level or the back row of the arena.
Once inside the Joe's seating bowl the magnificent sight of 19, red seats stared back at you. As a result the place felt like NHL hockey personified. There were winged wheels everywhere, and the colour red was the only one allowed. Moreover, even though the Joe was one of the NHL's largest buildings, it was constructed in the days before luxury suites started pushing the upper decks higher and higher in the NHL, and so even the cheap seats weren't bad.
The scoreboard was old but still worked well, and its presentation was excellent. The Red Wings are one of the few teams that realise that real hockey fans don't want laser shows or sound effects or canned nonsense - at the Joe you got a hockey game, presented professionally.
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