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Revision as of 23:09, 16 February 2007
| Compaq Center | |
| Facility Statistics | |
| Location | 10 Greenway Plaza Houston, Texas 77046 |
| Opened | November 2, 1975 |
| Closed | December 2003 |
| Owner | The City of Houston |
| Construction Cost | $27 million USD |
| Architect | |
| Former Names | |
| The Summit | 1975-1998 |
| Tenants | |
| Houston Aeros (WHA) | 1975-1979 |
| Houston Summit (MISL) | 1978-1980 |
| Houston Rockets (NBA) | 1975-2003 |
| Houston Aeros (IHL/AHL) | 1994-2003 |
| Houston Hotshots (CISL - WISL) | 1994-1997 and 1999-2000 |
| Houston Comets (WNBA) | 1997-2003 |
| Houston Thunderbears (Arena) | 1998-2001 |
| Houston Hotshots (WISL) | 1999-2000 |
| Seating Capacity | |
| 2001 Basketball | 16,285 |
| 2001 Hockey | 15,256 |
The Compaq Center, originally named The Summit, was a basketball and hockey arena in Houston, Texas. It is now the home of Lakewood Church, led by senior pastor Joel Osteen. The Compaq Center is located near the Greenway Plaza mixed-use complex.
Construction
In 1971, the NBA San Diego Rockets were purchased by a new ownership group and moved to Houston. The city, however, lacked an arena suitable to host a major sports franchise, so plans were immediately undertaken to construct a new venue. The Rockets played their home games in various local facilities such as Hofheinz Pavilion during the interim.
Completed in 1975, The Summit represented a lavish new breed of sports arena, replete with amenities, that would help the NBA grow from a second-tier professional sport into the multi-billion dollar entertainment industry that it is today. The Omni in Atlanta, McNichols Arena in Denver, and the Coliseum at Richfield in Cleveland were all constructed during this period and remained in service until the growth of the NBA sparked a new arena construction boom in the late 1990s.
Significant Events
The arena, named after computer manufacturer Compaq under a naming rights arrangement, housed the Houston Comets, Houston Aeros, and Houston Rockets until fall 2003. The sports teams left this stadium in favor of the new Toyota Center in downtown Houston.
This was the first sports arena in the Houston area to be named under a naming rights agreement; in 2000, Reliant Energy, under a naming rights arrangement, renamed the Astrodome (Houston Astrodome, Astrohall, and Astroarena) as Reliant Park, where Reliant Stadium also stands.
It hosted the WWF Royal Rumble in 1989, WWF No Way Out of Texas in 1998 and WWE Bad Blood in 2003.
Also, the rock band Queen recorded and filmed a heavily bootlegged concert at this venue on December 11, 1977 on the group's News Of The World tour. This concert was considered one of Queen's most famous concerts.
Even a 1981 performance from the rock band Journey at this venue was released as the CD and DVD package Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour in 2005.
Lakewood Church
With the sports teams moving to the new Toyota Center downtown, the city of Houston leased the arena to Lakewood Church, which invested $75 million in renovations to convert the arena into a megachurch.
Lakewood Church is the only tenant allowed to use the former Compaq Center.
| Preceded by Hofheinz Pavilion 1971–1975 |
Home of the Houston Rockets 1975–2003 |
Succeeded by Toyota Center 2003–present |