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Sportswriter: Tearing Down Astrodome Would Help Houston ‘Move On’
Depending on which city gets the Super Bowl in 2016, Houston will be vying with either Miami or San Francisco to host the big game in 2017, reports Culturemap’s Chris Baldwin, and Houston’s in great...
View ArticleComment of the Day: We Are the Dome
“The Astrodome isn’t some piece of useless garbage that came off an assembly line like the crap sitting on hoarders shelves. What an offensive comment! The Astrodome is a ONE OF A KIND, UNIQUE,...
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Macy’s Downtown: While Supplies Last!
A Macy’s spokesperson tells Nancy Sarnoff that after 66 years on Main St. the department store will be locking up for good “probably Saturday.” As Kenneth Franzheim’s former Foley’s awaits an expected...
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Getting to the Bottom of the Williams Tower
The $412 million sale last week of the Williams Tower seems to have provoked some curiosity in the Houston Chronicle’s Katherine Feser: Pursuing a lead from a retired employee that, were it not for...
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$17.5M To Be Spent Repairing Battleship Texas
Leaking and taking on Ship Channel water since last summer, Battleship Texas will be receiving some structural repairs beginning this April: Texas Parks and Wildlife announced today — the 99th...
View ArticleComment of the Day: The Team That’s Trying To Tear Down the Astrodome
“The more this saga continues, the more I’m inclined to agree with the opinion that the dome should become the Rodeo’s and the Texans’ problem, since they seem to shoot down every idea that’s ever been...
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Here, Now, a Few More Ideas for the Astrodome
Making the rounds this week are a couple more long shots for the Astrodome from people who don’t seem very keen on the 2,500 parking spaces the Texans and Rodeo proposed last week. First, you’ve got...
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Astrodome Stewards Announce Deadline for Redevelopment Proposals — Without...
The Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation this week approved a June 10th deadline for all private proposals to redevelop the Astrodome. That’s a notable event not only because of the...
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Astrodome Stripped Bare By the Architects, Even
With the June 10th deadline to submit the Astrodome proposals that the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation kind of forgot to ask for approaching, architect Ben Koush pens some poetic...
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Newly Historic Renovated Permitting Center To Hold Preservation Workshops on...
All that hard work installing new wind turbines and solar panels and employee vegetable gardens at the Houston Permitting Center — or even the talk about building a hot dog stand inside — hasn’t seem...
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‘C’mon. Knock It Down. I Dare You’
Writing in the New York Times, sportswriter Jeré Longman tries to raise Houston’s burgeoning “are we really gonna demolish it?” moment to a level of national concern: “. . . it was despairing to hear...
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Hatching Baby Businesses at the Astrodome
One of those 19 private bids that the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation didn’t quite get around to asking for and yet still received just in time for Monday’s deadline comes from...
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Neat Trick from Sports and Convention Corp. Cuts Astrodome, Everyone Else’s...
Correction: An earlier version of this story repeated an assertion included in a Houston Business Journal blog post by Shaina Zucker — that the Sports Corporation’s proposal for the Astrodome included...
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Under Plan, Astrodome Would Slim Down Exterior, Shorten Up and Fatten Inside
No, the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation’s estimated $194 million plan to convert the Astrodome into a convention center doesn’t call for the roof to be lowered. Though it does call for...
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Beyoncé’s Dad Couldn’t Find the Scratch To Make Astrodome Splash
One of those 19 bids that the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation never really asked for and passed over anyway for its own proposing that the Astrodome be converted into a slimmer,...
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Harris County Commissioners Decide Astrodome Convention Center Plan Needs To...
What’s another few weeks when we’ve been waiting this long? As some likely expected, the Harris County Commissioners Court decided today that it wasn’t quite ready to decide on the proposal the Sports...
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Super Bowl Fever Speeding Up Astrodome Deciders
If it seems kinda arbitrary and sorta abrupt, that June 10 now-or-never deadline for Astrodome ideas that the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation set, it might be because another deadline...
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Comment of the Day: Ode to the Family Gas Station, Recently Departed
“Yes, it was a sad day. I’ll have a hard time driving down 14th street from now on. I shed a few tears seeing it knocked down. To the [commenter] who suggested it be moved to the park –– it was offered...
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Commissioners Decide To Let Voters Decide on Convention Center Plan
You’ll get your chance at the ballot box this November to decide whether to approve a bond that would pay for the Harris County Sports and Convention Corp.’s $217 million plan to clean up and slim...
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Is Astrodome Demolition Going To Be on the Ballot in November?
Harris County Commissioner Jack Morman and Judge Ed Emmett are already saying that, were that $217 million bond election to turn the Astrodome into a convention center (as shown in the rendering...
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