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).
