Friend, I live waaaay outside the loop (yet still pay taxes inside it). Hell, I'm probably closer to 410 than 610. No TGIF, but there's a Chili's on the lake, their southwest eggrolls and margaritas are solid.
My older son dated a girl from Boston for a while. He went to the mall in Foxboro connected to the stadium a few times. Said it was always empty when he went. Anecdotal obviously, but it’s just hard for me to imagine a facility ever being built at the NRG site and people keeping it busy.
You can even leave a couple of parking lots for the tailgaters/rodeo carnival. But to have like 10 parking lots directly adjacent to NRG is such poor land use and waste of property tax revenue potential for the city.
NRG is a horrible area for something like that, many/most of them are (I think you'd disagree about MMP), but that is just how things are moving wrt pro sports and new stadiums...every single one that I've seen greenlit or proposed in the past ~5 years has some sort of team-owned real estate development tied to it.
Yep, I’ve been reading that as well. Will be interesting to see what local community ponies up for the Texans. I just have doubts they’ll be on the NRG site in their next building.
