BY BEN SCHMITT AND ZACHARY GORCHOW • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS
Detroit City Council saved a portion of Tiger Stadium today without even voting.
After about two hours of haggling between preservationists and the Detroit Economic Growth Corp, Council President Kenneth Cockrel Jr. sent both groups into a private room and asked them to work something out.
The result was a new agreement in which preservationists must create escrow accounts of $300,000 and $69,000 by Aug. 8, when the issue will be brought back to council.
The Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy, a preservation group, also must get complete funding for a museum in place by March 1, 2009, under the agreement. The amount needed is about $15.6 million.
The plan includes preserving the baseball diamond and 3,000 seats, and building a museum.
New plan hatched to save portion of Tiger Stadium....
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