The future of the Astrodome remains uncertain as Harris County leaders continue to debate the cost of renovating or ...
The dome saw its last publicly held event in 2002 and has been vacant for years. County and Houston sports officials have long weighed options for the building once known as “Eighth Wonder of the ...
The county-owned Astrodome opened in 1965 but has been closed to all events since 2009. Over the weekend, several videos were posted to social media platforms showing what appeared to be several ...
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 ...
The price tag for saving Houston’s most iconic building just got a lot harder to ignore. A new Harris County Sports & Convention Corporation-commissioned study estimates it would cost more than $752 ...
For more than two decades, Houston’s iconic Astrodome has stood silent, closed to the public. In 2013, calls for demolition prompted the National Trust for Historic Preservation to engage, naming it ...
The application was completed by the Heritage Society Program Director Mike Vance and Mike Acosta, the Houston Astros' team historian. The two are longtime researchers of sports history and have ...