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Originally Posted by KinBueno
That stadium gets plenty of use though.
I'm surprised that they haven't fixed up the Astrodome as an entertainment complex.
They should try to get that set up before the World Cup.
Beyonce and Taylor Swift has huge concerts. They could have thrown up a screen in the Astrodome and fill that up with cheaper seats.
NRG Park is just too massive to not amp up the entertainment. The Astrodome is mere feet away from NRG stadium surely they can use it for something
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1. It would cost huge amounts of money to fix up the Astrodome for any major use. It closed in 2008 with a lot of code violations. I'd assume this would require hundreds of millions (past schemes for odd uses were in the single nine figures; add escalation plus more to make the result viable).
2. It's realistically probably too late to do that before the World Cup. Just funding and basic concept agreement would take a while. Then the design/permitting. Then construction.
3. Public funding for a retrofit sounds unlikely. Owners of other venues would fight like hell. The public seems likely to oppose it in general (as they did for a scheme 11 years ago), since it's not about a team.
4. Private funding isn't plausible either. Who's going to spend hundreds of millions to add yet another competitor to a city with better stadiums, no pro sports tenants, and therefore an extremely light event load? Even if the refurb was free, operations and maintenance costs would be heavy.
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