News: Dynamo Stadium - City & County Approve Deal

I also like the ocean view. How much extra would that cost?

 

All we have to do is melt the polar icecaps.

 

I'm right there with all of you. Extremely happy to see this finally happen. I agree with Westside. I don't think I agree with some of the ways this may have been pushed through. But......at least ownership is paying for a majority of this. It's like taking a ride with the president and having a change of heart. Well..not really.

 

awesome day for all...thanks to all of you who wrote emails, took days off work, spoke before City Council, spoke at rallies, made phone calls, etc...now let's get some much needed work for some Houston families building it, working at it, etc...and let's fill it up with orange!!!

 

this is the first step to becoming like the Rapids-the end of all supporter groups and open cheering

 

Is it time for us to start guessing the name? I'm thinking Shell will pay for the naming rights and we will refer to it as "The Shell".

 

Wow..what a happy joyful day !!!
Now , let get serious..I think FO should let us ( STH ) a first shot on where we should select our seats..
I will take back all the crap I say about Sylvia Garcia...I can't believed she wear " orange" color at the meeting ..

 

Memorial Hermann Stadium

The Memorial

The Hermann

The Mann!


ok, nevermind...

 

Won't there be the same problem there is today with sharing a stadium with a college football team?? The lines will still show up and render the whole 'soccer specific' stadium tag virtually meaningless.

 

a handful of games during the season... we control the pitch and would have our own soccer crew working the grass... im sure we could work around that problem.

-btw, i hope the lockers look like pachucas.. who got to go inside pachucas stadium? ..... remember, the old man who gave yall a private tour... anyways.. those lockers where nice!!!

 

It was HungryJack'& his dad DynamoTraveller

 

Guys congratulations on your stadium deal !! Lets hope you stick with the original renderings and not end up like PPL park in philly that went

from this



to this



Its nice by the original rendering was much better.

 

I just hope this



doesnt end up looking like this with only $60 million to build it !!

 

On Fox26 they said it was a $95 million stadium... I guess that includes the infrastructure, but still that sounds better than $60 million.

 

It will be a very nice stadium because you can get a lot of "bang for your buck" during this economic time. This will be a very nice stadium.

As for the football lines, FC Dallas has high school football games all the time at their stadium and the lines hardly ever show up. FC Dallas uses this new paint that actually washes off. After what the Dynamo have been through with UH they will make sure these lines don't show up.

 

Football lines seriously? I really don't give a F*** what the tag associated with the Stadium is, it could be the "Downtown Houston Multicultural Mixed Events Arena" and so what? The Stadium is going to happen and that is the only thing that counts!

 

Do people not realize that half of the SSS in the US have football games played on them on a regular basis? Apparently not.

 

i don't think that it's the fact that throwball is played in the stadium, it's the aggravation at having to watch with throwballl lines left on the field. i share the hope with others here that we will have control over the field and the throwball dimensions and end zone decoration will be dealt with by the time the orange take the field. i'm sure, at times, it may be inevitable, but lets hope seeing grid iron is the exception and not the rule

 

Big Soccer is returning to normal.... ahhhhhh.

 

There's a lot of misinformation about the stadium, but on some station last night they said TSU would make their one time payment of 1.5 million. Then they said they still need to negotiate their lease. I thought they didn't have to pay a lease. But I'm sure there are things to negotiate.

 

My point is that football is played on a number of SSS fields but you barely, if ever, see the lines and when they are they, they are extremely muted to the point you can barely see them...because the soccer team is the one that controls the venue. Why anyone would assume that wouldn't be the case at Dynamo Stadium is beyond me.

 

As we all luxuriate in the thought that come April 2012, we'll be sitting in our seats at our new stadium, I'd just like to make a simple request.

For all of those who wrote emails to City Council and Commissioners court over the past 18 months or so - a suggestion that will only take a few minutes of your time.

E-mail Annise Parker and the individual Commissioners thanking them for their vote to advance the stadium. Mine went out this morning

 

Yep, I did that yesterday too.

 

Football is king in Texas. Not saying it is a justified reason, but I think it goes towards it.

 

I suppose...but that's a completely unjustified reason.