The Astrodome debacle (Houston, Dallas: house, cost, garage)

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by HouTXmetro

Right, ABC 13 ran a hit piece on the Dome tonight. It's Disgusting that they are in the tank as well to have it torn down.

And there goes the "Corporate media" pushing whatever the crooks want to push down our throat.

My post about making the Methodist training center on the other side of Reliant a 2,500 parking COMPLETELY dismantle their BS idea of needing the space where the Astrodome is to make a parking lot.

Who cares about facts?
What matters is money... and now all the Houston media (a monopoly in my opinion, since they all say the exact same thing) is gonna be pushing that BS idea down our throat.

10 years after they tear it down, they are gonna come back with the same BS
"If Houston builds a stadium like the Astrodome (with tax dollars), Houston could get the Superbowl"

[baddoctor]

Originally Posted by Dopo

Who cares about facts?
What matters is money... and now all the Houston media (a monopoly in my opinion, since they all say the exact same thing) is gonna be pushing that BS idea down our throat.

Spoken like a true Communist/Socialist Anti-American. Of course money matters.

Why would anyone convolute their thoughts with any other rational if they weren´t against capitalism?

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by baddoctor

I would buy it for $10 million and turn it into a museum exhibiting better cities, like New York, Dallas, San Antonio, etc. Complete with exhibits showing people commuting calmly on a subway, drinking clean freshwater, etc.

LOL I posted the "minimum" bid would be $10 million, but if you want to poney up 10 mil to open a museum nobody will attend then go ahead. I think the property tax on the joint would be a million or so depending on your evaluation, but I'm sure you would protest that as well.

BTW is your bitterness caused because you feel stuck here, or is it something from your childhood?

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by baddoctor

Spoken like a true Communist/Socialist Anti-American. Of course money matters.
Why would anyone convolute their thoughts with any other rational if they weren´t against capitalism

I wish capitalism was used when it comes to paying for stadiums. As usual, taxpayers will end up paying for them.
But I know.... anybody that criticizes corruption is instantly called a communist/socialist.

Astrodome Debt Burdens the City – Nearly as Much as the Original Cost of Construction! - April 2010

[UTHORNS96]

Originally Posted by baddoctor

I would buy it for $10 million and turn it into a museum exhibiting better cities, like New York, Dallas, San Antonio, etc. Complete with exhibits showing people commuting calmly on a subway, drinking clean freshwater, etc.

You ever rode a subway in New York before?

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by UTHORNS96

You ever rode a subway in New York before?

And you are going to take the worst subway in the World as an example

[astrohip]

Originally Posted by Dopo

Does anybody have any good theory of why "they" are so obsessed with demolishing the Astrodome?

Because it has no better purpose. I don't think people are obsessed with demolishing it, we can't figure out ANYTHING to do with it. And we've spent a decade trying. Is there something useful for the Dome to do? Maybe, but no one knows what it is.

So tear it down, and make better use of the land. ANYTHING is a better use than an empty building costing 2-4MM a year to mothball.

One small aside: The $30MM in bonds still owed on the Dome should NOT be used in any calculation of its worth, or cost to tear down. Those costs exist regardless of ultimate disposition. To say that tearing it down costs $60 million, because 30 to demolish and 30 to pay off bonds is disingenuous. That $30MM has to be paid off whether it sits empty, gets torn down, or turned into a butterflytorium. It will cost less than thirty million to demolish, simple as that. Payback in less than ten years on mothball costs.

[HouTXmetro]

I say they put several ideas on the table and put it up for a vote. It's our stadium and let us decide.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by HouTXmetro

I say they put several ideas on the table and put it up for a vote. It's our stadium and let us decide.

I would think that people would want SOMETHING be done with it instead of tearing it down.

Put so much has already been pumped in there heads.

Putting up another surface lot is just about the worst idea out there.

Look up world's largest parking lot you will get something along the lines of 20,000 parking spots. Reliant Park already has way more than that. According to Wikipedia there are about 26,000 spaces. Seriously a multiple level garage is in order instead of blanketing the land with surface lots. Besides, the infamous area across 610 is more than 8 times the size of the lot that The Astrodome is on.

Seems to me its the proximity to Reliant Stadium thats the issue

[jeremy2788]

Originally Posted by HouTXmetro

I say they put several ideas on the table and put it up for a vote. It's our stadium and let us decide.

I agree, and I hope that it will come to that even though I am doubtful.

If they do end up building one large parking lot, it will go against the vision of urbanity that this city administration has tried to make people believe that they support.