Farewell To The Palace

It's an end of an era. 

Only in Michigan can they take something and reduce it to nothing.

The Palace of Auburn Hills, the once great home of the Detroit Pistons will soon be torn down. 

The demolition for the arena where the Pistons won 3 NBA championships and is expected to begin this week.

The former WNBA team, the Detroit Shock also played at the arena and won 3 championships.

The WNBa franchise moved to Oklahoma in 2010.

The Detroit Vipers also played at the arena too. They won the Turner Cup on 2007.

Tom Gores, the owner of the Pistons moved the Pistons to the LCA located in downtown Detroit back in 2017

He sold the arena to a developer last summer. The demolition of the arena is expected to take a few months.

Why couldn't this arena be still in use?

It was a great venue.

Even if the team doesn't play there anymore, it could still host other events like soccer, other sporting events or even concerts.

Why does everything have to be demolished?

What if a developer who bought the property backs out of the deal with the city at the last minute?

Then once again you'll have another empty area.

Don't we have enough of those already.