Silverdome Roof Collapse 2012

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.

Silverdome roof collapse 2012.

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. 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. Buried under tons of icy slush and whipped past the breaking point by. 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 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. 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. While manchester united are facing real madrid in nearby ann arbor in front of 109 000 spectators on saturday the silverdome will stand eerie and neglected the wind whistling through the. The sale of the silverdome completed in 1975 at a cost of 55 7 million approx.

The teflon coated fiberglass roof of the pontiac silverdome accomplished all that in a monumental collapse last month.