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Compaq Center (Houston)

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Facility Statistics
Location 10 Greenway Plaza
Houston, Texas 77046
Opened November 2, 1975
Closed December 2003
Demolished 2005 (reconfigured into the Lakewood Church)
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 Summit stands among the high-rise office buildings of Greenway Plaza, ca 1995
The Summit stands among the high-rise office buildings of Greenway Plaza, ca 1995

The Compaq Center, originally named The Summit, was a multi-purpose sports arena in Houston, Texas. It is now the home of Lakewood Church, led by Joel Osteen. The Compaq Center is located about five miles southwest of downtown Houston in Greenway Plaza.

[edit] Construction

In 1971, the NBA San Diego Rockets were purchased by a new ownership group that moved the franchise to Houston. The city, however, lacked an indoor arena suitable to host a major sports franchise, so plans were immediately undertaken to construct the new venue that would become The Summit. 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.

[edit] Notable Events

The Compaq Center housed the Houston Comets, Houston Aeros, Houston Rockets and several arena football sports teams until they vacated the arena in favor of the new Toyota Center in downtown Houston. Additionally, the arena was a prime Houston venue for popular music concerts and special events such as the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

Compaq Center hosted the NBA Finals on four different occasions: 1981, 1986, 1994 and 1995. In 1994 and 1995, the then-Summit was the site of the deciding games in the championship series and of the ensuing celebrations. Compaq Center was also host to championship teams from 1997-2000 when the Houston Comets won the WNBA title for four consecutive years.

The Compaq Center also hosted many professional wrestling matches. Among these were the WWF Royal Rumble in 1989, WWF No Way Out of Texas in 1998 and WWE Bad Blood in 2003.

Prior to the construction of Toyota Center, Compaq Center was the principal Houston venue for large pop and rock music concerts. 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. Led Zeppelin also performed an acclaimed and extensively bootlegged concert in Compaq Center on their record-setting 1977 U.S. tour. A 1981 performance from the rock band Journey at the arena was released as the CD and DVD package Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour in 2005. Other artists of note who have performed at Compaq Center include Elvis Presley, David Bowie, the especially infamous KISS concert where Ace Frehley played a 14-minute guitar solo and Madonna.

[edit] From Vacancy to Lakewood Church

In 1998, Compaq Center became the first Houston sports arena to sell its naming rights. The Arena Operating Company entered into a five-year, $900,000 deal with then Houston-based Compaq Computer Corporation to change the name of the venue from "The Summit" to Compaq Center. The length of the agreement was significant, because in 2003 the lease that Arena Operating Company held on Compaq Center would expire, and the tenants of the building were lobbying vigorously for the construction of a new downtown venue to replace the aging and undersized arena.

When the sports teams moved to the new Toyota Center in 2003, 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 has an exclusive lease agreement with the City of Houston and is the only tenant allowed to use the former Compaq Center. Lakewood is one of the largest churches in America.[1]


Preceded by
Hofheinz Pavilion
19711975
Home of the
Houston Rockets
19752003
Succeeded by
Toyota Center
2004–present
Preceded by
none
Home of the
Houston Comets
19972003
Succeeded by
Toyota Center
2004–present

Coordinates: 29°43′49.2″N, 95°26′05.5″W

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