AP: Red Wings consider moving from Joe Louis

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Matt Saler
on August 6, 2006
in JLA and The Team
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The Illitches have moved one of their chief executives over to head a team investigating two options: a new arena and renovations of JLA. Personally, I can’t imagine the Wings without the Joe so I hope they end up deciding to renovate. I don’t want to go to some fancy new arena with some corporate name and zero character. But that’s just me. The News has a story on this too but I can’t access it right now (”Server too busy”). Maybe you can.

2 Responses to “AP: Red Wings consider moving from Joe Louis”

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  1. 1 Brendan
    August 8, 2006 at 11:18 am

    I will say that Joe Louis does have a lot of pleasant recent memories and it’s named after one of the great Black athletes of all times BUT it’s in such a bad location. Whoever decided to put and completely enclosed arena right on the river, while that must have been somebody from Detroit. Since they want to expand Cobo Hall anyway it makes more sense for JLA to be make way for that. Maybe they can do for the riverfront area there what they did behind the RenCen/GM area. Hey, I’m still crying over Tiger Stadium being left behind for the mall like atmosphere of CoPa but I think the Wings would be wise to build another arena, maybe on that parcent of land on Grand River that Illich already owns. (Same street as Olympia!) And whole coporate naming rights are lame, they could make it the Northwest Airlines Arena. Support our local hometown civilian air force.

  2. 2 schulzte
    February 14, 2007 at 11:58 pm

    I agree with Brendan. The Joe isn’t a bad rink, I was just there to see MSU-U of M, but its cut of from the rest of downtown by Cobo Hall and the Lodge Expressway. I’ve created a plan for a new rink, built much like the old Olympia Stadium. Check it out at http://www.newolympia.blogspot.com
    T. Schulz

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