Harris County residents voted 53 to 47 percent Tuesday to reject a referendum that would have authorized bonds to turn the former home of pro baseball's Houston Astros and pro football's Houston Oilers into a giant convention and event center,Alvin Kamara Jersey.
"We can't allow the once-proud Astrodome to sit like a rusting ship in the middle of a parking lot. This was the best effort (to revamp the stadium), and voters have turned it down," Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, who chairs the county governing board, said Tuesday night as the outcome became clear. "Commissioners Court will have to make a decision on where to go from here."