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No Plans to Demolish Joe Louis Arena

DETROIT-Cobo Hall director Lou Pavledes says long-term plans to expand the facility to 700,000 sf is not likely to include removing the Red Wings' home. Rather, the expansion could go in one of three other directions.

By Robert Carr | Updated on May 11, 2002

DETROIT-Joe Louis Arena, the home of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team, is not likely to be removed under expansion plans for the Cobo Center, Detroit’s premier conference and meeting facility in the Downtown area. It would take $250 million to $300 million to build another 300,000 sf onto the 700,000-sf facility, says Civic Center director Lou Pavledes.

He recently told the City Council the four ways to expand on the center mimic the points of the compass, going east, south, west or north.

“We have four or five possible alternatives. We could expand into Joe Louis, go north across Congress Street, north across Washington Street, we could build on top of the building or maybe even into the river,” Pavledes says.

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