When the news broke that Triple Sports and Entertainment is planning to renovate the Pontiac Silverdome in an effort to attract a Major League Soccer franchise, skeptics responded with a familiar refrain: "I'll have to see it to believe it."

Now you can.

The Motor City Supporters, a Detroit-based fan group, have posted the visual plans for the renovations on their website.

As first reported by MLive.com, the new ownership group plans to take the roof off the former home of the Detroit Lions and split the stadium into three sections.

Ground-level stadium plans call for a convention center/concert hall as well as a multi-purpose arena capable of hosting hockey, basketball, and other indoor sports.

A roughly 30,000-seat outdoor soccer stadium with natural grass would rest on top of those two indoor facilities, with the current upper deck essentially acting as a lower bowl for the outdoor stadium.

The Apostolopoulos family have already submitted their application to Major League Soccer for an expansion franchise, and they hope that with a first-of-its-kind stadium renovation will help make that happen. The building of a soccer-specific stadium is often the biggest obstacle for new franchises.



Since they purchased the Silverdome at auction for bargain price of $583,000, the Apostolopoulos family has turned the vacant stadium into a venue capable of hosting a variety of events, such as concerts, monster truck rallies and most notably for their MLS effort, an exhibition game between Italian super club AC Milan and Panathinaikos from Greece, which drew over 30,000 fans in July of 2010.

