DETROIT - The Detroit Police Athletic League is expected to officially announce Tuesday that it has hit its fund-raising mark to begin working on a new development at the old tiger Stadium site in Detroit.

According to the Detroit Free Press, Russ Russell, chief advancement officer for Detroit PAL, said they'd moving on the project in a year.

The PAL headquarters will cost $11.3 million, which will sit on the southwest corner of the site at Michigan Avenue and Cochrane. The other end of the field along Michigan Avenue is to be redubbed "The Corner", and will put mixed-use facilities on the site.

The Corner has a $33-million plan.

According to a Navin Field Grounds Crew blog posted Tuesday by Dave Mesrey, The Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy board voted Monday to transfer Senator Carl Levin's $3 million federal earmark to Detroit PAL.

This bumped the PAL fund-raising total to about $11 million.

The biggest point of contention in the redevelopment plans remains unclear.

Detroit PAL has not said officially whether the grass on the field will be torn up and replaced with artificial turf.

PAL plans to use the field for various youth sports, college leagues and other events. They've said according to their research, a natural grass surface could not sustain the volume of events they want to hold at the facility.

At a November Detroit City Council subcommittee meeting, a PAL representative expressed the desire to "maximize" the use of the facility.

Whether that meant real or artificial turf was not stated.

Detroit PAL in that same City Council subcommittee meeting said that home plate and the flag pole will stay where they've always been in the new design.

The PAL representative said then a final decision hasn't been made, but they know a grass field can't sustain what they want to do.

The $33-million project is tentatively scheduled to be complete in 2017.

The Detroit Tigers left the city-owned property at Michigan and Trumbull over 15 years ago and moved into Comerica Park downtown. The last remains of Tiger Stadium, opened in 1912 as Navin Field, were demolished in 2009.

Ian Thibodeau is the business and development reporter for MLive Media Group in Detroit. He can be reached at ithibode@mlive.com, or follow him on Twitter.