S PORTS IN D ETROIT By: Mary Sumner K., Katie S. and Felix S.

A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY Sports are one of the top five things to do in Detroit it’s a fun thing to do with your family and you can see you favorite teams to. Tiger stadium was built in 1895 but at the time it was called Bennett field they played there first game there the next year. Ford field was built in August of 2002 Joe Luis arena was completed in 1979 and the red wings played there first game in October of that year. Comerica park was finished and opened in 2000 Sports of Detroit fulfils the needs and wants of the people of Detroit because when you want to see a baseball game you can go to Comerica park

C OMERICA P ARK Tigers stadium broke ground in 1911 on the corner of Michigan avenue. Comerica Park the new tigers stadium opened in 2000

F ORD F IELD The silver dome was the home of the Detroit Lions. Then they made ford field which was originally planned to be an outdoors stadium. Ford Field was built in At ford field once they built the new stadium they made everything environmentally friendly

J OE L OUIS A RENA Olympia Stadium was home of the Detroit Red wings. It opened on October 26,1927. Then Olympia Stadium closed down because it was getting old so then the red wings started playing at Joe Louis Arena which completed in 1979.

T HE PLACE OF AUBURN HILLS From 1957 to 1978, the Pistons competed in Detroit's Olympia Stadium and Cobo Arena. In 1978, owner Bill Davidson elected not to share the new Joe Louis Arena with the Detroit Red Wings, and instead chose to relocate the team to the Pontiac Silver dome, a venue constructed for football, where it remained for the next decade. While the Silver dome could accommodate massive crowds, it offered substandard sight lines for basketball viewing. A group led by Davidson bought vacant land in Auburn Hills from Joseph Shewach and built The Palace there for the relatively low cost of $70 million, using entirely private funding. The Davidson family held a controlling interest in the arena until Tom Gores purchased majority share in 2011.

CONCLUSION We think that the sport industry will change from sports technology advancing. At ford field the field is made out of recycled tires. Also the bricks for the walls were reused from an Hudson's department store back in1920. And, all the floors in ford field are made out of bamboo which is better for the environment then regular wood. In the future we think that all of the sport arenas will become more environmentally friendly because it is cheaper and their customers will be happier that they are being environmentally friendly so more people will want to go there