A new conservancy formed by the Greater Corktown Development Corp.
is working on plans to redevelop the baseball field at Tiger Stadium
into a park for youth sports programs and is talking with the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame about making the site its permanent home — possibly in a piece of the existing stadium.
The Detroit Economic Growth Corp. has a letter of understanding for the project with Corktown Development serving as fiduciary for the newly formed Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy until it secures its own nonprofit status, said Corktown’s Project Manager Jeff Wattrick.
The
conservancy, which has been quietly building its board and capacity for
fundraising, plans to launch a campaign later this year to fund
redevelopment of the field, some sort of memorial to the site and an
endowment to pay for the park’s upkeep, he said. It’s uncertain what
form the memorial might take.
Locating the Michigan Sports
Hall of Fame at the site would be ideal, Wattrick said. “They have a
50-year history of this; there seems no reason to duplicate what
they’re already planning to do.”
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