How about calling their bluff?  What if LBP promised to build a world class facility in Oakland County if the North American Auto Show made a commitment to move from COBO?  

Let Conyers keep Cobo. Put any money that was to be used for Cobo toward fixing, updating and expanding the Pontiac Silverdome. Pontiac could use the revenue. Forget Detroit.

Let Detroit crumble and rot - it's 70% there anyway.  I do not want any of my tax money going to that city or to Cobo.  They don't want us there.  [moderator edit]  That is exactly what the council said.  They want our money, but they don't want our help.  Apparently they think they can do a great job.  Yeah, Detroit is SO great now as compared to about 50 years ago.

Use Pontiac Silverdome as a convention center.  The location is easily accessible and its use could bring back a lot of business between M-59 up through Baldwin Rd on the I-75 corridor.

And everyone in Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw and all surrounding regions needs to STOP going to Detroit.  Don't put another DIME there.  "They" want "us" out, fine.  We don't need Detroit.  We don't need a bunch of crumbling old buildings and a hundred year old infrastructure.  We don't need the rot, the crime, the filth, the greening.

The Detroit City Council has drawn the line.  Perfect.  Let's stay on our side.

I encourage Patterson to continue his support of the five member regional authority.  I live in Detroit, and if Cobo rots because of the crazy Detroit Council, then so be it.

I say let cobo go and let detroit keep it.  I say Mr. Patteson you can have a venue that will be beautiful and new,  I am sure you can get the funds.  Cobo is a delapidated piece of crap and will cost so much money to fix.  

If neither DADA, the hotel/casinos or anybody else wants this pup, maybe it's time to let this thing die, and close the place down. The region has dumped millons upon millions into the Downtown, yet both the downtown and a good portion of the city has continue to fall and fail. Time to say bye-bye to the Autoshows and other events if nobody wants to work out a true partnership with all those who are paying for it (the city, Wayne, Oakland & Macomb Counties and the State)  

Cobo Hall still?. The city government has left it fall on hard times, and want everybody else to pay for it. Time to sell it (to the highest bidder!!!). Let someone who can manage it and take care of it, take both the responsibility and the benefits.

Unfortunatly,all of  the facts regarding this matter are not being presented by the broadcast and print media. The Hotel and liquor tax is not a direct tax to the Oakland County residents. The revenue generated for Oakland County as a result of the conventions at Cobo Hall more than offsets this tax.

where did the money go that was supposed be for cobo hall collected thourgh taxes from liqour sales and taxes hotels pay in the tri- county area.

I live in Macomb County and am tired of the Detroit City Council and their "Entitlement" mentality. I would fully support a new convention center outside of Detroit.

It appears that we are moving toward a county executive in Macomb County. Would LBP consider moving to Macomb County and running for executive. Great deals on houses.

Let's build a new convention center....let Monica try to keep cobo running on the money she is skimming from the city.

Mr Patterson,

Run away from the Cobo deal as fast as you can,  Oakland County does not need Detroit to survive.  Let'em keep that 'jewel' and confince the DAA to come to Oakland County.  If they want to stay in Detroit, let'em.

Statement from Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson Regarding Judge Decision on Cobo Hall Pontiac

Forget COBO and renovate an old auto factory in Oakland or Macomb County leaving parts of the line in place as exhibits.  What a fitting place for The NAIAS.  Or like others have said, renovate the Silverdome, expand and connect it to the old Wal Mart via a tram.  Its time the region stopped throwing money to patch that sinkhole.  Bulldoze it and throw grass seed down.