|Houston Astrodome to be the new Hollywood Studios| (West, Christine: hotel, home)

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This is a concept that is getting closer to be becoming a realility.

It will be called the "Astrodome studios".

From Swamplot

Still waiting in the wings, the long-promoted but as-yet-unmade proposal to turn the long-vacant Astrodome into a giant indoor movie lot is almost ready for its closeup, says Christine Hall in the Houston Business Journal. Astrodome Studios co-executive directors Elise Hendrix and Cynthia Neely
along with a laundry list of supporters, including “Dazed and Confused” director/writer Richard Linklater, are one month away from presenting a proposal to Harris County that would put a major soundstage and movie production studio into the proclaimed “Eighth Wonder of the World.”
“We would have absolutely everything a creative agency would need to film a movie,” Hendrix says. “With 140,000 square feet, you wouldn’t have any problem building a city in there if you needed to.”
But what would an Astrodome movie studio look like, really? To help unimaginative county officials picture the transformation, Astrodome Studios has prepared the dramatic photo-illustration above, along with a series of similarly rich diagrams:

This development has a website and a myspace lol.

Site:Astrodome Studios

Myspace page:MySpace.com - Houston Association of Entertainment Professionals - 31 - Female - HOUSTON, Texas - www.myspace.com/houstonaep

[dyson boy]

wow! I hope it gets built.

[DJboutit]

I do not think that will happen they have had many other ideas all have failed I think it will be towrn down

[jfre81]

And I suppose this isn't going to interfere with the Texans or the rodeo or whatever the excuse was for not doing the hotel thing?

Awesome. I could totally have a slice of Hollywood practically right outside my door.

I don't really know what to think about that.

[Trae713]

I guess they don't want to do the hotel thing because they plan on building another one near the GRB on the other side of Discovery Green (straight line to the Hilton).

[Topaz]

I thought maybe this was an old article from last April Fool's Day but then I Googled it and the project seems to be getting some serious consideration.

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by Angel713

I guess they don't want to do the hotel thing because they plan on building another one near the GRB on the other side of Discovery Green (straight line to the Hilton).

Maybe, but it was the Texans and the rodeo people who went against that idea. I dunno, I don't see holding something back for a football team that has eight home games a year and a rodeo that runs for three weeks out of the year. I'm sure it could all be worked out...maybe they could put that huge lot of nothingness (everyone knows the one) across 610 to use.

[houstoner]

Whatever happens, I just hope they don't tear it down.

Originally Posted by Angel713

I guess they don't want to do the hotel thing because they plan on building another one near the GRB on the other side of Discovery Green (straight line to the Hilton).

Another what? Hotel? Dome? Studio?

[Trae713]

A new convention center hotel (rumors of a Westin) on the other side of Discovery Green. It'll also be near the Southeast/East End light rail lines.

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by Angel713

A new convention center hotel (rumors of a Westin) on the other side of Discovery Green. It'll also be near the Southeast/East End light rail lines.

those lines are never going to happen at the rate the construction is going.