Community members expressed excitement about the prospect of a WNBA practice facility and accompanying youth sports complex coming to a heavily polluted former industrial park on Detroit's east side, even as developers said Wednesday it was too early in the process to answer some of their questions.

During a public hearing just feet from the proposed location, some members of the public raised concerns about the environmental impact of the estimated $50 million construction project, which is projected to get underway next year. Decades of industrial use has left the dirt at the riverfront site, once the home of Uniroyal Tire Co. and other manufacturers, filled with heavy metals as well as volatile organic and synthetic compounds, which emit gases from some solids or liquids and include ma

See Full Page