Where’s the money going for Super Bowl 51?
http://www.khou.com/money/wheres-the-money-going-for-super-bowl-51/283699985?platform=hootsuite
On Thursday, we dug deeper and found that $250 million of that is being put into the complete facelift and reconstruction of George R. Brown Convention Center. Houston First—the tourism bureau—will be putting that money up and that comes from hotel tax dollars.
It will cost more $400 million to build the Marriott Marquis—a hotel that will sit right off of Discovery Green and be the host hotel for the area. That will be funded by private investors