The city said this week the Silverdome may house a World Hockey Association team until it is sold. The World Hockey Association is still forming and has not yet played a game. Also this week, the city's Stadium Authority voted to drop one of three proposals on the table for the eventual fate of the facility.

Eliminated was a proposal put forward by partners Danou Enterprises Inc. and Derek S. Albert of the Albert Group for a convention center with an aquarium. Remaining proposals are the Silverdome business campus proposed by Etkin Equities and Kojaian and Pontiac Towne Center by Schostak Brothers Co. Inc. and General Development Co.

The authority also voted to allow events to continue to be booked at the 80,000-seat stadium through December 2005. The decision enables Silverdome executive director Eric Walker to continue talks with the WHA to place franchises in the dome. The authority has been charged by the city council with recommending a redevelopment plan for the stadium, which lost the Detroit Lions as a tenant when Ford Field opened in Downtown Detroit in 2002.