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

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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. The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... The Houston Rockets are a National Basketball Association team based in Houston, Texas. ... Hofheinz Pavilion is a 8,500-seat multi-purpose arena in Houston, Texas. ...

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. The Omni Coliseum, usually called The Omni, was an indoor arena located in Atlanta, Georgia. ... McNichols Sports Arena was an indoor arena in Denver, Colorado. ... The Coliseum at Richfield was an arena formerly located in Richfield Township, Summit County, Ohio. ...

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. The Houston Comets are a Womens National Basketball Association team. ... This article is about the American Hockey League team. ... The Houston Rockets are a professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas. ... Arena football is a sport invented by Jim Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League. ... The Toyota Center is a sports stadium located at 1510 Polk Street in Downtown Houston, Texas. ...

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. Logo of the NBA Finals The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association, played under a best-of-seven playoff format. ... WNBA may also refer to WNBA-AM, a radio station in Illinois. ...

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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, and Madonna. Queen are a seminal English rock band, formed in 1970 in London by Brian May, Freddie Mercury, and Roger Taylor, with John Deacon joining the following year. ... A bootleg recording (or simply bootleg or boot) is an audio and/or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist, or under other legal authority. ... For the bands 1969 self-titled debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco, California. ... Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis and also called The King of Rock n Roll or simply The King, was an American singer, musician and actor. ... David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer whose work spans five decades. ... Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16, 1958), better known as simply Madonna, is a six-time Grammy[1] and one-time Golden Globe award winning American pop singer, songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon. ...

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] Lakewood Church exterior Lakewood Church interior Lakewood Church is a diverse, non-denominational megachurch located in Houston, Texas. ... The interior of Rev. ...

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