Pontiac Silverdome Auctioned To A Canadian Buyer

Pontiac, Mich., reached a deal to sell the 80,000-seat Pontiac Silverdome to an unidentified Canadian buyer for $583,000, about 1% of what it cost to build, the city said Monday.

The city said the buyer planned to convert the former home of the National Football League's Detroit Lions into a soccer facility. A city official declined to release further information until the deal was finalized.

I'm wondering just what "soccer facility" means. At first, I assumed it would become a soccer-specific stadium for an MLS club, but at that low cost, and with the enigmatic nature of the sale, it doesn't sound like that's necessarily the case. For all I know, the buyer or buyers may have it's enclosed nature in mind, and wishes to use it as a winter training facility.

Depending on the buyer's intended use, the just might look for a good tenant like a major winter baseball team, right? ^_^ Soccer-specific stadiums in the United States usually scale back their seating to between twenty and thirty thousand, which would be just fine for the kind of major winter league I have in mind.