Chron columnist still pushing for new soccer stadium

Check out the latest effort from the Chron's soccer columnist to stir up some interest in a new home for the Houston Dynamo:

The Dynamo need a facility where they can control scheduling, concessions, parking and security and support the bottom line. Thinking bigger, soccer needs its own home in a city of international recognition like Houston.

I would love to see a stadium built in downtown Houston. The whole experience of going downtown for a game would give more suburbanites a reason to enjoy that great part of our city.

A downtown stadium also would give Dynamo games more of a major-league feel, not to mention the fact there are a lot of haunts where fans could gather before and after a game.

We already have downtown sports venues, including a stadium. Three brand new ones. Really expensive ones that taxpayers built (plus a big empty one that costs millions just to maintain). In fact, Harris County has the highest rental car taxes in the nation to help pay for those expensive stadiums. And the Sports Authority has already had one close-call with junk-bond status.

What Harris County doesn't need is another sports team coming in here, sticking taxpayers with a big fat bill for a new venue, then controlling the revenue associated with that venue. Now if Dynamo officials can build a stadium with their own money, fine.

As for the bolded part -- yeah, that's just what suburbanites have been waiting for. A downtown soccer stadium.

Posted by Anne Linehan @ 01/11/07 08:56 PM | Houston Chronicle | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (11)

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