WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Attempts Wednesday morning to reach City of Pontiac officials and the Silverdome ownership group about the property's status were unsuccessful.

Messages left with Pontiac Mayor Deirdre Waterman weren't immediately returned.

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DETROIT, MI -- Just when you thought Pontiac Silverdome couldn't look any worse, a Detroit area TV station captured disturbing video footage from a recent helicopter flyover of this former Detroit Lions home.

This 80,000-plus seat stadium appears to be in complete disarray.

Check out video in YouTube player below from Detroit's WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) and see for yourself.

Footage was taken recently from crews on "Chopper 7" and shows this once proud indoor stadium looks more like a decaying outdoor one because it no longer has a roof. The place also appears to be losing seats at a rapid pace.

You can see thousands of crumbling seats and gaping holes where ones were once bolted into the sections.

What the future holds for the dome appears to be anyone's guess.

An ownership group for Pontiac Silverdome told MLive.com this month they are expected to announce sometime this year what they play on doing with the 127-acre site in northern Oakland County.

No more details were given to MLive in an e-mail sent by David White, of the Toronto-based Triple Investment Properties. The company also owns the Penobscot and State Savings Bank buildings in downtown Detroit.

"Thank you for your interest in the future of the Silverdome," White wrote in an e-mail to MLive. "We do not discuss on speculation on our developments. We will contact you with a statement when we are ready to discuss our plans."

When pressed on the matter, White wrote that "2015" is the timetable when an announcement will be made about the Silverdome's future. The venue was purchased by Triple Properties for $583,000 in 2009.

Since the purchase, this former NFL venue has been falling apart and appears beyond repair.

Johnny Joo, a Cleveland-based photographer, recently visited the neglected structure and shared with MLive.com photos of the Silverdome that can be viewed in the slideshow above.

A link to the photo gallery was sent to White via e-mail, and to Steve Apostolopoulos, a principal of Triple Properties. Neither one of them commented on the way the Silverdome looked in the gallery of images.

Apostolopoulos, via his Twitter page, referred all Silverdome questions to White.

The Silverdome is of historical significance because it is the place where the Detroit Lions won their last playoff game.

They drubbed the Dallas Cowboys 38-6 behind Eric Kramer's 341 passing yards and Willie Green's eight catches for 115 yards and two TDs.

Before Jan. 5, 1992, this franchise's last postseason win was the 1957 title game against the Cleveland Browns.

This was also the place that hosted Super Bowl XVI on Jan. 24, 1982. The San Francisco 49ers beat the Cincinnati Bengals 26-21 for the championship.

Joo said he spent "about five or six" hours inside the Silverdome recently so he could get the full scope of the structure.

The venue reportedly cost $55.7 million to build in 1975 — the equivalent of $244 million in 2014 dollars.