You know things must be getting desperate for the Astrodome Redevelopment Corporation, which earlier this week suffered the indignity of having two rather important stakeholders come out against the latest incarnation of the company’s tightly guarded, four-years-in-the-making, Frankenstein-inspired proposal for bringing the Dome back to life. When they finally got to see the proposal, “recently,” the Texans and the Livestock Show & Rodeo decided the Astrodome’s new incarnation would be incompatible with their own operations.
But the greatest indication of the redevelopment group’s desperation was revealed just yesterday in local ABC-TV reporter Miya Shay’s blog. That’s right, the Astrodome Redevelopment Corporation is going for broke: The company finally decided to release to the public actual images of its proposal for the county-owned facility!
Yes, it’s a daring strategy to use on a property paid for by local taxpayers, but it just might work.
After the jump: the newly released images of the Astrodome hotel-under-glass!
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Okay, so it’s just one more image—but hey, it’s a start!
Remember, there’s a lot going on in there: a big-ass hotel inside a new parking garage wrapping around the perimeter! Water features, trees, islands, and bridges! “Air rides”! A slice of an old ballpark!
- Astrodome, future and now… [Houston Political Blog]
- Dome and Dumber [Swamplot]
- Astrodome Redevelopers: This Time We Really Know What We’re Doing [Swamplot]
