re: Why do we (as a society) destroy stadiums?

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I could have sworn the plan was to build it in Cobb county

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That's the Braves' new stadium. They left the Falcons right in the ghetto where they belong.

A few.
But like everywhere else, the Louisiana Superdome was new, with a roof and air conditioning, this is New Orleans, after all.

The Superdome was designed for pro football first, but Dave Dixon thought it would be a great tool for Tulane recruiting and for a while, it was.

As you can see, the upper deck at Tulane Stadium was supported by structural steel, that when not maintained in South Louisiana, rusted. Once the Greenies moved out, there was no thought to spending all that money to maintain what amounted to an Erector Set with no one playing there beside a few high school games per year.

I guess they could have removed the upper deck and the north end zone and kept the rest which were brick and concrete. But, again, with the football team decamped to the Superdome, why?

Kind of sad, a lost piece of New Orleans History.

Because we can reuse the land for something else that is beneficial. An empty stadium that isn't being used, which right beside a brand new stadium, doesn't provide us with anything that outweighs the cost to maintain it.

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If the original structure could have been saved it would make a good place for high school games, but no reason for Tulane to have it on their campus.

Found this great article about all of the additions made to it through the years. The House the Sugar Bowl Built – The Gateway to Big-Time Football in New Orleans

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It's funny to drive around the Uptown/University area of New Orleans on Tulane game days these days, and see all the goof restrictions they implement all over that part of town for the 10,000 or so people that go to games in that silly little stadium they built, and think there used to be an 80,000 seat stadium in the same area that would fill up for Saints games, Sugar Bowls and the occasional Super Bowl. And probably regularly draw 50-60,000 for Tulane games and fill it when they played LSU every other year there.

Yeah look how beautiful the Pontiac Silverdome is, still standing 11 years after the Lions quit playing there.

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Well, Tulane also used to be part of the SEC until 1966. Once they left the SEC and the Saints moved to the Superdome, there was no need for a large stadium and Tulane decided it needed that space more for housing, a garage, and a recplex. And a fricking soccer field.

All that's left of the Sugar Bowl is the name and a dinky little plaque mounted on a piece of the foundation they left near where the parking garage now stands.

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I know all this. My point was more toward the reactions of the residents NOW and the goofy assed restrictions they demand for that dinky little stadium.

To build a new bridge you must first destroy the old one.

Sun Tzu

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But no, they had to "redevelop" an area of town nobody in their right mind would visit at night (or likely even in daylight).

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Hmmmm, I take it you don't make it to downtown/East Downtown often.

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Did any preservationist try to save old Tulane Stadium?

Watched many a Sugar Bowl and even more Saints games from there on TV.

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I think it was built in the early '30s, so it was pretty antiquated by 1975. It was also too big for what Tulane football had become (just like the Superdome was too big). I don't remember preservationists trying to save it, but I was a kid.

I do remember being bummed when they tore it down. I had some great times at Tulane and Saints games as a child. In the late '60s/early '70s, my dad would park me and my brother way up in the north end zone (a Child's ticket was $2.50 up there) and go sit on the sidelines with his friends. He'd buy us each a drink and we carried in a Bunny Bread bag full of popcorn my mother made at home. He'd come back to check on us at halftime and we'd wait up there after the game for him. I was like 8 or 9 years old! Can you imagine doing that shite today?