Silverdome Roof Collapse 2012

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Silverdome roof collapse 2012.

The pontiac silverdome also known as simply 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 roof of the pontiac silverdome collapsed monday under the weight of an overnight snowfall sending three detroit lions players james jones gary danielson and eric hipple. Unfortunately for the crowd gathered to watch the spectacle of the explosion the silverdome in pontiac mich was built a little too well officials at the event told detroit s wxyz.

The teflon coated fiberglass roof of the pontiac silverdome accomplished all that in a monumental collapse last month. With a seating capacity of 82 666 it was the largest stadium in the. 225 million in 2012 dollars and sold in 2009 for 583 000 was viewed by many as a symbol of the collapse of real estate prices in the detroit metropolitan area though many local leaders and residents claimed the sale was brought about due to the incompetence of city management and their not having a vision or future plans for the stadium and surrounding area. The silverdome s roof collapsed in december of 2012 37 years after opening its doors to its inaugural wave of lions fans in 1975 and hasn t been touched since.

There were tentative plans to bring major league soccer to the silverdome as well as a team in the revived nasl but a further roof collapse in january 2013 proved to be the death knell for the.