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The Pontiac Silverdome (also known as the Silverdome) was a stadium in Pontiac, Michigan. It opened in 1975 and sat on 199 acres (51 ha) of land. When the stadium opened, it featured a fiberglass fabric roof held up by air pressure, the first use of the architectural technique in a major athletic facility.
The Pontiac Silverdome, home of Detroit Lions, was hailed for its architecture upon opening, but later had breakthroughs of its fabric roof from snow. ... $24 million in today’s dollars. That ...
Apostolopoulos made international news in 2009 when his investment company purchased the Pontiac Silverdome at auction for $583,000. [5] A low purchase price for an 82,000-seat stadium that had been constructed in 1975 for $55.7 million ($220 million in 2009).
Pontiac High School, which is located at the former Pontiac Northern High School, was created in 2009 by the merger of both Pontiac Northern and Pontiac Central high schools. Wisner Stadium was one of the practice locations for the Detroit Lions and George Plimpton in 1963, as he was writing his book Paper Lion .
The town of Pontiac, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, sold the 80,300-seat Silverdome on Monday, along with 127 acres of nearby land. The massive stadium complex, which once hosted the Detroit Lions ...
The Pontiac Silverdome was sold this week at auction for $583,000, or about 1% of the $55.7 million it took to build it. What a difference a year makes. Or 34 years. Take your pick. Either way, it ...
This was the only Super Bowl to be played at the Pontiac Silverdome. The Super Bowl did return to Michigan for Super Bowl XL, but that game was played at Ford Field in Detroit, which in 2002 had replaced the Silverdome as the home of the Detroit Lions. This was also only the second Super Bowl to not take place in one of the three so-called 'big ...
The Cherry Bowl was an annual post-season college football bowl game played in the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, in 1984 and 1985. [1] The Cherry Bowl was an early attempt to bring a game to Michigan, years before the Motor City Bowl (later known as the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl) and its successor the Quick Lane Bowl (later known as the GameAbove Sports Bowl).