Silverdome Roof Collapse 2012

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.

Silverdome roof collapse 2012.

The teflon coated fiberglass roof of the pontiac silverdome accomplished all that in a monumental collapse last month. Buried under tons of icy slush and whipped past the breaking point by. The sale of the silverdome completed in 1975 at a cost of 55 7 million approx. 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.

The pontiac silverdome roof collapsed yesterday under the weight of snow accumulated during an overnight storm forcing stadium employes and three detroit lions football players to run for cover. With a seating capacity of 82 666 it was the largest stadium in the. 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. The pontiac silverdome also known as simply the silverdome was a stadium in pontiac michigan it opened in 1975 and sat on 199 acres 51 ha of land.

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.