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The Pontiac Silverdome, built three decades ago for $56 million, is virtually being given away — sold at auction for a paltry $583,000. That comes out to $7.25 a seat, a fire sale that’s reduced the once-proud stadium to another sad symbol of the Detroit area’s economic collapse. The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson have played under its puffy roof. Now it’s an abandoned laughingstock. “An 80,000-seat domed arena and its 127-acre site sold for less than a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan,” Jon Stewart marveled on “The Daily Show.” Not just any apartment — one “with a rodent problem, above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley.” The Associated Press
