Comments on: The Astrodome is not going anywhere for a while

By: gloccamorra

gloccamorra — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:14:16 +0000

Why is it considered “uninhabitable”? Air conditioning broke down? All the toilets backed up? Structurally unsound? The asbestos flaking? Haunted by Judge Roy Hofheinz? The answer to that question is the key to the solution.

By: gloccamorra

gloccamorra — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:59:11 +0000

They could sell it to a professional soccer team! That sport is exploding in popularity all over the country.

By: spudatx

spudatx — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:25:02 +0000

That thing will stand there as-is until there is reason to develop the land. Right now, I’d be shocked if anyone was expressing interest in that land.

By: kevinbnyc

kevinbnyc — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:15:54 +0000

I thought I had read that asbestos was involved, which inflated the cost to tear it down properly and made it unimplodable?

By: istillbelieveinblue

istillbelieveinblue — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:30:57 +0000

Yes, but did YOU?

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:21:47 +0000

If you’ve been watching the Feesh this season you’ve seen massive implosion that didn’t even knock the pasties off the salsa dancers in the Clevelander.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:19:23 +0000

I say keep it standing until they finish filming the remake of Brewster McCloud. Then airlift it with hundreds of those gigantic Russian freight helicopters and drop it on the Tropicana Dump – you know like pushing Quasimodo off the ledge at Notre Dame so that he lands on Kevin Youkilis. Let’s kill two birds with one stone.

By: cur68

cur68 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:35:28 +0000

Tut-tut: covered, 24hour, all automated golf driving range. It would print money.

By: buddydeath

buddydeath — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:20:56 +0000

They can’t sell it out right because there are major complications with parking leases. The Texans and Houston Livestock and Rodeo each have leases so how do they rebuild the dome without making the Texans and the Rodeo pissed?

By: Francisco (FC)

Francisco (FC) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:09:19 +0000

Did you not see the sarcasm font?

By: danielcp0303

danielcp0303 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:01:38 +0000

Blow it up and bring back Astroworld

By: flyerscup2010

flyerscup2010 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:00:52 +0000

Pontiac put the Silverdome up for auction, and it sold to a foreign dude for the starting bid price. Pontiac’s only aim was to eliminate operating costs from their city budget. I tend to think Houston would be interested in merely having the problem off of their hands and into a private developer’s hands, especially if the private developer can use the land for something else and generate tax revenue.

By: kopy

kopy — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:05:25 +0000

The Stade Olympique has the same problem. It cost a boatload to build, and now it would be too expensive to take it down. And, they can’t even get decent use of it despite the city having a MLS and CFL team in smaller venues

By: heyblueyoustink

heyblueyoustink — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:05:12 +0000

Riddance, unless you were giving positive reinforcement to your genetically merged wren and kitten creature.

By: heyblueyoustink

heyblueyoustink — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:52:28 +0000

Make it a rave,

By: sportsdrenched.com

sportsdrenched.com — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:50:01 +0000

Great Idea! Now, who you gonna sell it to? What profitable endeavor could be housed in the Astrodome to which you could entice a potential buyer?

I’m sure no one in Houston has thought about these things.

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:47:54 +0000

It’s right next to Reliant Stadium, where the Houston Texans play football. I’ve seen implosions done in more congested areas.

There seems to be a lot of nostalgia for the place, so maybe they can convert it into a concert and convention center or something.

By: istillbelieveinblue

istillbelieveinblue — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:46:23 +0000

Right, because 50 year old football stadiums are watertight enough to hold millions of gallons of water.

By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:34:12 +0000

Too close to other buildings to implode? The pic shows a little wiggle room.

Whip the lid off, fill it with water. New city reservoir(or a giant new effluent treatment pond)

By: stex52

stex52 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:31:46 +0000

The money is owed for a major renovation in the ’90′s. The issue is a political hot potato. No one wants to spend the money to renovate and no one has thought of a use that really promises that much of a return. But there is a lot of emotion still invested in the old facility. Kind of out of character for a town that usually prides itself on business bottom lines and practicality. They won’t fix it up, but none of the the county commisioners wants to be known as “The Man Who Killed the Dome.”

BTW, local contract demo groups say that the demo number is way too high and that you could implode with the right planning. But keeping the estimate so high is a convenient fiction to keep them from having to take any action.

I will miss the Dome. Many great times there. But it is rapidly becoming an eyesore.

By: lorddarkhelmet

lorddarkhelmet — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:29:39 +0000

It never should have been financed for longer than 20-30 yrs which is the usable time frame for these kinds of buildings

By: tcostant

tcostant — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:29:10 +0000

We can thank them for Astroturf; wait he like real grass, Good writtens!

By: flyerscup2010

flyerscup2010 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:28:44 +0000

sell it like the pontiac silverdome?

By: mybrunoblog

mybrunoblog — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:27:11 +0000

So much for the 8th wonder of the world. Wouldn’t it have been smart to decide the fate of the old ballpark before they built the new one? Nice job Houston.

By: nolanwiffle

nolanwiffle — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:17:23 +0000

That was one great stadium in its day.