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Future of UM’s historic Ferry Field uncertain

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Ann Arbor — They will not pave Ferry Field and put up a parking lot.

At least not yet.

That plan, hatched five years ago, never became formal and is abandoned, Michigan Athletic Department officials confirmed.

While parking is scarce all over campus, there are no current plans for using the site of the track and field facility when a new 500-seat stadium and training center opens in about 18 months, part of the $168 million Athletics South Competition and Performance Project.

A legendary but rarely noted former gridiron, Ferry Field is the site where, in the first three decades of the 1900s, the conquering heroes of Fielding H.