Super Bowl
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is getting ready to show Super Bowl visitors all the improvements and the new face of Detroit.
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“It’s an opportunity to present people with the next Detroit,” Mayor Kilpatrick said.
To embellish the image of a revival, the host committee of the Super Bowl, led by Roger Penske, the entrepreneur and auto racing team owner, is spending $10 million on parties, concerts, sports clinics, and indoor and outdoor festivals.
“This is going to be a blockbuster event,” Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm of Michigan said. “They have every detail covered.”
About $100 million in public and private money has been spent on sprucing up the central business district and development projects to create apartment lofts in old buildings near the stadium. Nobody has estimated the cost of police protection on game day.
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