2017+ Championship Venue Details

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Originally Posted by Conor Ryan

I'm concerned about the safety of the Detroit Venue (mostly because of where the bulk of the hotels are located), but I'm sure we will all be ok. Proximity to food will be a bit of a challenge, but if we can make it through build season we can stop acting like babies.

When visitDetroit.com leads the Website with the comment that "Meetings are safe..." it makes you pause. I realize FIRST wants to help Detroit dig out of big problems, but to bring 30,000 kids into a near open city like Detroit is troubling. Assuming Ford Field and the surrounding areas are actually secured, how easy will it be to get food, go to a hardware store, and take the kids outside? There are no grocery stores, no hardware stores, no nothing in the city (not even movie theaters). Trash doesn't get collected, no snow removal in Winter, fire and police protection is limited at best. Is Detroit the best we can do? And we want to bring kids into that?

In St. Louis, we can easily find what we need with many hotel options and never worry about our safety. If we don't want to pay the cost of a downtown St. Louis hotel, we found comfortable and affordable options in Chesterfield and other outside communities with access to grocery stores, restaurants and malls.