Dave Birkett

Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Lions will hold training camp at their Allen Park practice facility this summer for the 15th straight year, and team president Rod Wood said today there's no inclination to move it off site.

“It hasn’t really been something we’ve discussed," Wood said before the Lions opened mandatory minicamp.

The Lions have held training camp in Allen Park since they opened their $35 million practice facility in 2002.

In 1997, they moved camp to Saginaw Valley State at the urging of then head coach Bobby Ross, and kept it there through the summer of 2001.

This year, the Lions will hold joint practices with the Pittsburgh Steelers in Latrobe, Pa., and Wood said the team is considering enhancements to the facility that could expand the training camp experience in future seasons.

"There's some things that we may do down the road here that will hopefully allow us to accommodate a few more fans," Wood said. "That’s one of the issues, that we don’t have enough fan space. But in terms of moving it, that's not something that we’ve discussed."

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"I wish I could comment on it, but probably later in July the NFL’s going to allow us to roll out what the plans are for 2016 and I’ll have some comment at that point," Wood said.

Initially, Wood was expecting to release the uniforms in April around the time the NFL schedule was released.

"I think they want to do everything at the same time so I’m honoring that request," he said.

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