TORY GATTIS asks and answers an interesting question regarding the latest Astrodome redevelopment proposal:
How does demolition cost almost as much as two new Reliant Stadiums, you might ask? Well, they cleverly included their real wish-list with all 3 options: a new mega-hotel on-site, new arena, additional exhibition space, and a large parking garage. There’s no option to vote against any of that. It’s also a clever way of making the all-out revamp package seem not that much more expensive than demolition.
It was clever. That sort of clever sleight-of-hand was apparently all that taxpayers got out of that $50,000 sweetheart consulting deal that produced three poor “package” options for a building that has outlived its usefulness and should have been demolished years ago.
