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time will tell with the Astros. Some of the factors that drove the Braves to suburbs are definitely relevant to the Astros.
Well, downtown and surrounding areas have exploded in residential population in the past twenty years, mostly upper-income, and downtown has become a much more interesting neighborhood to walk around before and after games. People can come to a game and stay at a hotel and make a little weekend getaway out of it, as I've seen plenty doing when staying at downtown hotels. Certainly the bars around downtown, like Biggio's or 8th Wonder Brewery, offer much more interesting options than Montgomery County.
Crane has development plans around MMP - he bought a lot across Texas Ave a couple years ago that will likely be some kind of residential highrise. So it doesn't seem like he has plans of getting out.