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WTF News: Houston's Astrodome to Turn into a Convention Hotel?

January 24, 2008 at 1:16 PM | 2 Comments

The might be one of the strangest hotel conversions we have heard of yet. But if it all goes as planned, sports fans might have a chance at staying on some hallowed athletic grounds.

The Houston Reliant Astrodome was once considered the "Eigth Wonder of the World" and indeed it was the world's first domed stadium when it opened in 1965. But as the years went by the place began to show its age.

After the last b-ball game was played there in 1999 (the Astros moved to the Minute Maid Park), the dome hosted mostly concerts and rodeos since knocking it down wasn't environmentally sensible.

But now there are plans to turn the dome into a 1,200-room convention hotel. The county and the city is still working out the messy logistics and financing of such a place. However, if this conversion does take place, we'll be real interested to see how they make a hotel out of the dome.

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