Dave wrote: > Hi Jon, > > You probably remember me joking that NAMES should simply buy the Pontiac > Silverdome and use it for the show.... > > I was in Detroit yesterday and today. On the evening news it was > announced that the Silverdome was sold at Auction - for $580,000. > > Yes that is right 580 thousand $. It was built in 1975 for 55 million > $. How is that for property depreciation! Yikes! > > If every NAMES attendee kicked in $100 we probably could have bought the > Silverdome! ;-) > And Pontiac would have immediately come back to all of those buyers for $10,000 each in back taxes and other fees! Sometimes really nice buildings that have outlived their intended purpose go to the wrecking ball because nobody has need for that specific structure at that place and time. Sad, but that's life.
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