Long term Houstonian here... The place mentioned is friggin' HUGE. There's a lot of room. The Astrodome sits between Fannin and Kirby. NRG Stadium is next to Kirby. The Dome sits in the middle. Nothing on the Fannin side, except a LONG WALK. That area is freaking huge. Plenty of room to build something.
The procedure would be to tear down the Dome. Use that cleared area for a parking lot, and start building the new stadium on the Fannin side.
The problem is MONEY. If you build a new stadium, you'll have to spend several billion dollars. The problems mentioned in the video go away if the DOME goes away. While building the new stadium, the "old" stadium can still be used. Parking is solved if you tear down the Dome during the off-season, and put in the new parking lot for where the Dome used to be. Construction of the new stadium can take place on the Fannin side. Lots of room. The problem is going to be how much money, and who pays for all this. The football team doesn't want to pay, and the taxpayers don't want to pay. Where's the money coming from?
The narrator is an original Texans player named Seth Payne. He keeps talking about "Bridgeland". Bridgeland is about 30 miles or more away. Therein lies another problem. The Texans want a new practice facility to replace the one close to the current stadium. If they go all the way out there, then what? The current facility is on the Kirby side. There was the old AstroWorld site that got demolished several years ago. Why not use that area? It's right across the freeway from the Dome. Who's making these decisions? That seems to identify another problem. How do you coordinate between the government and the organizations that use the facilities?
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