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Along
with three other NFL teams, the Detroit
Lions began playing in a new stadium in
2002. After more than two decades of playing
at the Silverdome in Pontiac, MI, the Lions
and Detroit Tigers (MLB) first proposed
to have two new stadiums built in downtown
Detroit in the mid 1990’s. Construction
on the Tigers new stadium, Comerica Park
began in 1997 and was completed by 1999.
Voters approved a bond that paid for 51%
percent of the stadium, while the Lions
paid the remaining 49% of the $430 million
stadium. Appropriate enough, Ford Motor
Company purchased the naming rights to the
stadium, thus it was named Ford Field. Groundbreaking
ceremonies for Ford Field began on November
16, 1999.
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