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Judge Emmett Says He’ll Reveal a ‘Major’ Proposal for Reusing the Astrodome...
For a good while now, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett has been dropping hints about a new proposal to renovate the Astrodome. He’s set to reveal a few details about it tomorrow afternoon, after he holds...
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Judge Emmett’s New Plan To Turn the Astrodome Into the World’s Largest Indoor...
Harris County Judge Ed Emmett’s new “not fully hashed out” plan for reusing the Astrodome is to turn the structure into the world’s largest indoor public park and recreation area. The park might...
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Curious Poll Pushers Want To Know: Should the County Spend Any Amount It...
The last time a concrete proposal to spend public money to repurpose the Astrodome was on the ballot, Harris County taxpayers voted it down. So how hard could it be to come up with a new poll showing...
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The Next Big Event Planned for the Astrodome Will Be a Wash
When was the last time anyone bothered to clean the exterior of the Astrodome? Long enough ago to merit media coverage for word that the Dome’s caretakers have now decided to do something about the...
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The New Old Color They’ll Be Painting the Upper Sides of the Astrodome Soon
What’s next in Astrodome beauty treatments after the unused county stadium’s powerwashing late last year? How about a little color magic? As noted by the KHOU chopper sent out to record the incident...
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Just a Bunch of Guys Hanging Out on the Astrodome Roof
Astrodome security wasn’t the tightest during the Rodeo of 2012, it appears. That’s when builder Russell Hancock snuck inside the unused stadium and sent photos of some of the sorry scenes he found...
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The Astrodome’s First Solution to Its Can’t-See-the-Ball Problem
Before players had that problem losing fly balls in the glare, before a portion of the skylights were painted over, before anyone in Houston had ever considered replacing the outfield grass with...
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How To Turn the Astrodome into a Vertigo-Inducing 3D Outdoor Park
Architects James Richards and Ben Olschner, dissatisfied with the current talk of turning the Astrodome into the world’s largest air-conditioned park, have started drumming up support (and selling...
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How You’d Park Under Astrodome’s Floor, and Where To Fish for More Details
Here are some of the plans the Harris County commissioners looked over this week as they reviewed the engineering study for the proposal to raise the Astrodome’s below-grade floor and stick a parking...
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Metro Might Never Need To Change a Station Name Again If It Just Changes 28...
In response to word from the Chronicle‘s Dug Begley this week that the Red Line’s Reliant Park light-rail stop might get its station name updated to an even older name, a Swamplot reader jumps on the...
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Metro Now Hedging Against Inevitable Reliant Park Light-Rail Renaming Backlash
METRO is currently seeking some public input on replacing the Reliant Park light-rail stop’s outdated moniker. The agency’s preface to the poll notes that the naming rights to the station itself were...
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Now It’s Beverage-Coaster-Sized Squares of AstroTurf Hitting the Market in...
Just in time for Christmas, Preservation Houston has begun marketing a new type of Astrodome memorabilia: 4-in. beverage-coaster-sized squares of AstroTurf removed from the stripped-down stadium —...
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