It has become a symbol of everything that went wrong in New Orleans..
It is now nothing but a big, bad, memory that nobody wants to be reminded of..
And if there was a bloody riot on Main Street would you
(1) Clean up the gore and open it back up to the public?
(2) Tear up the street and lay new asphalt?
This was the Main Street of football in New Orleans. Until those levees have been built up to withstand cat 5 storm surges, not an unnecessary penny should be spent in New Orleans.
I agree it should probably be razed, but I imagine having no sports facility will rob the city of a large source of tourist dollars - I wonder how much exactly the dome generates in terms of income for the city each year? They should not receive any federal money to rebuild it though - but rather, have to strike some deals with private investors or something.
I think the only way this city can rebuild successfully is to bulldoze the slums, don't build them back, and begin focusing on how to attract INVESTMENT rather than handouts.