We're getting to the point where it would be better to just demolish it than trying to do something with it. My idea was, is and always will be....turn it into preferential season-ticket holder parking for the Texans. All you'd have to do is hollow it out and build some extra ramps.
I'd love to be able to go on a tour of it like that. Actually I think it'd be really cool to get about 20 friends and play an epic game of hide and go seek. Weren't there a few apartments inside the dome at one time that people actually lived in?
I think it is time to demolish it. It wouldn't be practical for anything else. Us taxpayers are paying a million dollars a year for upkeep. Such a waste. I know all the arguments of it being a landmark but it is such a waste. Tear it down and be done with it.
Actually I just looked it up. Sounds like Judge Hofheinz lived there for a while. Would have loved to been able to see that. http://articles.latimes.com/1988-03-18/news/mn-1682_1_fred-hofheinz Check out this view he had from the pool table
yeah, unfortunately it's time to tear it down. Sucks but if you can tear down yankee stadium you can tear down the astrodome. I do want one of those oilers signs though and a piece of the turf...maybe even a chair to fix up and put in the house.
The problem is no one wants to be the person who "killed the Astrodome" nor does anybody want to nut-up and pay for the demolition, even if it will save money in the long run. I think people are afraid of paying to blow it up, and then basically having to sell the land to McNair for free or something where he will turn around and charge everybody money to use it. (Unless the county owns the land and leases it to McNair/RP?) That's how most see it playing out. Until somebody is willing to build something in it's place, I don't think we'll see it get 'asploded.
We've spent a decade deciding what to do with it and in the mean time, it's totally gone to ****. Great foresight, Houston leaders.
