Even renovations to NRG Park, which includes NRG Stadium, but not the Astrodome, come at a time when three of the city's major sports franchises are competing for public funding for facility updates.
Imagine a state-of-the-art sports venue hosting events while just a few hundred yards away from an arena that was once ...
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A county plan for a $105 million renovation to the Astrodome is in danger as a state bill cleared a Senate committee Monday. The bill's author, Sen. John Whitmire, says voters should ...
HOUSTON -- Thousands of Houston Astrodome fans celebrated the 53rd anniversary of the now-vacant stadium with a last look inside before a $105 million redevelopment begins. The Houston Chronicle ...
HOUSTON - I have walked into the Astrodome many times in my life, around 300 times…but never this way. On Friday, April 6, I entered the dome alone through the enormous opening in center field. Kind ...
As the referendum on the Astrodome gets closer, I thought it might be worth taking a look back at the last 20 years of stadium history in Houston. Thought 20 years isn’t a lot of time in the grand ...
Last August I wrote the following about the County Commissioners, their continued inability to figure out what to do about the Astrodome, and whether a plan for the future of the building should be ...
We usually never pass up an opportunity to photograph the inside of the Astrodome. It's probably the most-photographed building in the city. But shoot it enough times and things will start to look the ...
In the 1970s and '80s, Courtney Tardy went to the Astrodome to watch baseball games. "I remember the original scoreboard and displays," she wrote in an email, "and the excitement of being in that ...