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.
Make the Astrodome into what MSG is today… but better. Spend 10 billion dollars. It will mean more than any other NFL stadium project, including the darlings in LA and Vegas. Make the roof glass like there’s (everybody doing that anyways)… gut everything but hte shell. It’s big enough to build an entire intimate but raucous brand new stadium within it (with plenty of concession space, tons of bathrooms… things MSG hasn’t figured out yet. DO IT
From a Land development perspective, A reconstructed Astrodome should be the worlds largest Parking lot.designed for both maximum auto and pedestrian ingress and egress with walkways to multiple levels of a redesigned Reliant. Turn the outdoor parking lots into the commercial support areas.
Imagine the traffic for someone who parked on the top floor and trying to get out after game time! Poor soul wouldn't even make it home in time for SNF
I envision lanes bypassing the traditional ground traffic like contraflow lanes originating from the Astrodome itself and going directly to controlled access in each direction.
The issues is that the Dome is in a bad part of town. Personally if the McNair's want a new stadium then let them build it with NO taxpayer money, or they can move like the Oilers did. Send a message to the McNair's that the grift is up. A qtr of a century and not even an AFCCG, whenever talk SB's before evry season know they aren't serious people. The only time they started to care was when fans stopped showing up during the Easterby yrs. They've proven to be who they are.
