Where, oh where will the Dynamo go?

Since the Houston Dynamo moved to town last year, it's been a foregone conclusion that someone somewhere would have to build the team a stadium. But where — and who — is still up in the air, and as the Chronicle reports today, Houston is trying to put together a plan that would keep the Dynamo from rocking the suburbs. The focus of the Chron's report is a proposal to put a Dynamo stadium downtown with a youth sports complex — which the team is asking for as a condition of staying in town — on the site of the Wortham Park Golf Course at 7000 Capitol Ave.

The 150-acre site on the bank of Brays Bayou could include a Dynamo practice complex, a public soccer field and baseball fields, and it could be linked with downtown by Metro's proposed East End rapid transit line. But that would mean the golf course — which has been open since 1908 and was once home to the immensely cool Houston Country Club clubhouse — would disappear, which we imagine wouldn't sit well with inner-Loop golfers (the Wortham course is one of three public courses inside the Loop). But it's far from a done deal: "We have been investigating a broad range of opportunities," Andy Icken of the city's Public Works and Engineering Department told the Chronicle. "We haven't really put pen to paper yet, as far as the economics and how we would pay for all this."

Still, Icken said the city hopes to make a proposal to the Dynamo within a month to keep the team from ending up in the 'burbs — Sugar Land, Webster and Pearland are also vying to build the stadium and youth complex. "We're not at a point where we're near any decisions," Dynamo President Oliver Luck said.