Dive Brief:

• The Detroit Tigers left Tiger Stadium for Comerica Park in 1999, but now the Detroit Economic Growth Corp. is looking to bring back the derelict site as a multi-use development site that will still have a ball diamond.
• The corporation, which controls the site for the bankrupt city, issued a request for proposals for the 9.5-acre site and would like to see retail in 30,000 to 40,000 square feet, 90 to 100 residential units and offices for the Detroit PAL youth sports organization.
• For the baseball group, the corporation wants to retain much of the diamond that still sits on the site even though the structure was razed after years of neglect.

Dive Insight:

The former stadium sits in a part of the city known as Corktown, one of the oldest residential areas and once an Irish enclave. The request for proposals is a bit of positive news from a city where most of the headlines are about bankruptcy or corruption.