Here’s the latest effort to save the ol’ 'Dome. I hope this, or something else will succeed soon.
Thanks for sharing that.
I’m having trouble watching more than 45 seconds at a time because I pass out from the amount of PR fluff words they use.
It is an interesting idea. I wonder if there’s a way to harness the power of the feral cat piss currently coating every surface.
Chronicle article:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/article/astrodome-renderings-plan-19909244.php
If that’s paywalled, you can see the renderings here:
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/vision-astrodome-plans-2024/285-52f01be8-757c-415e-a3e3-5ad7c50e506b
Or here:
The fact that necks are so emotionally attached to that shithole that they’re willing to spend north of a billion dollars to construct some nonsense that no one is ever going to use will never make sense to me.
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The key is that it’s a billion dollars of someone else’s money.
Multi-purpose value-added other people’s money to be imprecise.
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If people really cared about the Dome they would not have let it fall into the rat-infested shit hole it has become. It’s a damn shame what they’re doing to the old girl. Let her go with some dignity.
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My preferred solution has been and remains stripping it to its skeleton steel beams, and making it a green park where people can picnic/tailgate/play around. It makes the space useable and preserves the structural history. Houston’s Eiffel Tower.
All of these proposals that get floated around every couple of years are DOA with this statement:
“The rodeo has not had formal conversations with the Astrodome Conservancy in more than a year. The rodeo does not support the previously presented concepts as they conflict with our organization’s strategic vision and operational needs,” said Chris Boleman, president and CEO of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in an email statement to the Chronicle Tuesday.