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DETROIT STADIUM AUTHORITY MEMBER QUESTIONS TIGERS' PLANS

          The Tigers signed a $600,000 contract with a local
     advocacy group to involve minorities in building its new
     stadium, according to Mark Puls of the DETROIT NEWS.  The
     Tigers will award 30% of the dollar value and hourly work
     for the project to minority companies (DETROIT NEWS, 11/12).
          SLOW PROGRESS? Detroit/Wayne County Stadium Authority 
     Co-Chair Mike Duggan said that while the Lions "are
     preparing a first-class, state-of-the-art football stadium,"
     the Tigers "are planning to build just a plain old baseball
     park," according to Pete Waldmeir of the DETROIT NEWS. 
     Duggan: "We're not going to accept that, and they know it. 
     There's too much public money in this whole deal for the
     authority to approve anything but the best."  Waldmeir
     writes that Duggan "is puzzled by the lack of innovation and
     imagination displayed" by Tigers President John McHale Jr.,
     the team's "point man on stadium development."  Duggan: "I
     want the Tigers to build a stadium that the Detroit area can
     be proud of. ... It's got to have some pizzazz, some life,
     some character.  And what I've been shown so far doesn't
     impress me at all" (DETROIT NEWS, 11/12).
          

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