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In 2008, Houston will be hosting the Sweet 16/Elite 8 games of the men's NCAA Tourney on a friday/sunday rotation. Having the hotel inside the Astrodome would be a HUGE plus. It will certainly help the city in attempts to lure the Final Four (men's and women's) to Reliant Park.

Reliant Stadium is hosting the men's Final Four in 2011.

U brought up a good point. Say the Astrodome does go through as a hotel. Why can't there be underground parking in Reliant Park? Wasn't part of the issue with the Texans a ramp for parking in the Dome? They could have a few underground event parking places for Reliant Center, the Dome Hotel, and perhaps for the Texans as well under the current parking spaces. And STILL use the surface lots for parking/tailgate parties.

After that, sell the parking spaces across the street from Reliant Stadium to another urban development entrepeneuer to get some or most of the money back for the new parking construction.

Couldn't that work?

Wouldn't it be ridiculously expensive to add underground parking at this point?

I was told this by an insider on Friday. Can anyone verify? If this is true, what happens next?

Looks like bankruptcy isn't very far off.

Here's some more information.

Didn't Texas Tech build a new stadium a not to long ago.

Nah, we've just done some major renovations in the last 5 years. There were plans to add another 10,000 seats, but I think they've been scaled back considerably.

You forgot SHell,Exxon-Mobile,Chevron-Texaco,Citgo,and isn't Valero?

Shell-The Hague, UK

Exxon-Mobil-Irving, TX

Chevron-Texaco-San Ramon, CA

Valero-San Antonio, TX

do you happen to have a list of the fortune 500 companies in houston?

ConocoPhillips

Marathon Oil

Plains All American Pipeline

Sysco

Halliburton

Lyondell Chemical

Waste Management

Enterprise Products

Continental Airlines

Reliant Energy

Kinder Morgan Energy

CenterPoint Energy

TEPPCO Partners

Burlington Resources

Apache

Baker Hughes

Enbridge Energy Partners

Dynegy

Group 1 Automotive

Smith International

National Oilwell Varco

El Paso

Frontier Oil

Anadarko Petroleum (The Woodlands)

Here's a neat one:

haha my mom worked in that flower shop at that period in time.

Here's a rendering from the Chronicle.

In defense of the naysayers, this project is following a familiar pattern: the ever-receding groundbreaking date. This has always frustrated posters, going all the way back to 1982 when the forum was just a bunch of penpals, writing letters in longhand and sending them out. The big discussion topic back then was the Bank of the Southwest tower - would it be built? Communication in those days took a long time, because each post had to be sent to a central mimeograph machine, from which copies were sent out to all the members. Everyone contributed to take care of the 19 cent postage. This historic topic garnered seven posts, at that time a record, and as us oldtimers will recall, the project experienced several delays before finally being cancelled. I still remember sitting at Gilley's in my stenciled jeans and cowboy hat, crying into my Lone Star.

Was that brick structure in front of the water wall always there? It looks terrible.

I was wondering the same thing...

Anyone know?