What's the likelihood that Houston Texans would build a complex similar to "The Star"?

[oil capital]

Originally Posted by nate4l1f3

"I have no desire just to build a practice facility," Fertitta said. "We would turn it into 100 percent some type of entertainment facility built around the practice and training facility. It will be an entertainment venue. The practice facility will be part of it. We will look at what's the best place for us to put it so it's convenient for our coaches and players and financially."

Unless he has changed his mind on what he wants from this facility or the address is incorrect, it doesn’t seem like this is a 100% ideal location for an entertainment venue. I could be wrong.

Interesting, of course it was five years ago that he said that . . . a lot has happened since then that might have made him go in a different direction.

FWIW, the permit only showed $15 Million of work being done, so it doesn't sound like it would be any major entertainment center open to the public. Sounds more like a fairly minimal rehab of an existing structure to get the Rockets an improved facility. Might be a make-do effort to get the Rockets a minimally acceptable facility until they can come up with Tilman's preferred solution.

OR, it could be a training facility for Landy's. ;-) (Except that it's being designed by Populous, so probably sports training, not corporate/hospitality training...)

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Originally Posted by oil capital

Interesting, of course it was five years ago that he said that . . . a lot has happened since then that might have made him go in a different direction.

FWIW, the permit only showed $15 Million of work being done, so it doesn't sound like it would be any major entertainment center open to the public. Sounds more like a fairly minimal rehab of an existing structure to get the Rockets an improved facility. Might be a make-do effort to get the Rockets a minimally acceptable facility until they can come up with Tilman's preferred solution.

OR, it could be a training facility for Landy's. ;-) (Except that it's being designed by Populous, so probably sports training, not corporate/hospitality training...)

Fertitta entertainment hospitality training is outsourced to contractors. And those contractors outsource employees from the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Thailand, etc

They do have corporate internships but a specific hospitality centric training center, not so much. The closest to that is the school of hospitality of UH. They have some internships there as well.