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in dollars) | architect = Lloyd Jones Brewer & Associates | structural engineer = Walter P Moore〔(Walter P Moore - Arenas (archived) )〕 | former_names = The Summit (1975–1998) Compaq Center (1998–2003) | tenants = Houston Aeros (WHA) (1975–1978) Houston Summit (MISL) (1978–1980) Houston Rockets (NBA) (1975–2002) Houston Aeros (IHL/AHL) (1994–2003) Houston Hotshots (CISL) (1994–1997) Houston Comets (WNBA) (1997–2002) Houston Thunderbears/Texas Terror (AFL) (1996–2001) Lakewood Church (2005–present) | seating_capacity = Basketball: 15,676 (1975-1983), 16,016 (1983-1986), 16,279 (1986-1987), 16,611 (1987-1995), 16,285 (1995-2003) Ice hockey: 14,906 (1975-1983), 15,256 (1983-1994), 15,242 (1994-2003) Indoor Soccer: 14,848 Current configuration for worship services: 16,000 }} The Lakewood Church Central Campus (originally The Summit and formerly Compaq Center) is a house of worship in Houston, Texas. It is located about five miles southwest of Downtown Houston, next to the Greenway Plaza. From 1975 to 2003 the building served as a multi-purpose sports arena, for various professional teams in Houston. From its opening until 1998, the building was known as The Summit. Computer technology firm Compaq bought naming rights to the building after that and it was known as Compaq Center until 2003. At that point the name was dropped, coinciding with opening of the Toyota Center as a new professional sports venue in Houston. Shortly after, the building was leased out to Lakewood Church for use as its main facility. Lakewood Church purchased the building outright in 2010. ==Construction of The Summit== In 1971, the National Basketball Association's San Diego Rockets were purchased by new ownership group Texas Sports Investments, who moved the franchise to Houston. The city, however, lacked an indoor arena suitable to host a major sports franchise. The largest arena in the city at the time was 34-year-old Sam Houston Coliseum, but the Rockets would not even consider using it as a temporary facility. 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 and the Astrodome during the interim. Completed in 1975 at a cost of $18 million, 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 (now the site of Philips Arena), McNichols Sports Arena in Denver (now a parking lot for Sports Authority Field), and the Coliseum at Richfield in Cleveland (now an open meadow in the process of being reclaimed by forest) were all constructed during this period and remained in service until the continued growth of the NBA sparked a new arena construction boom in the late 1990s. On each end of the arena was a Fair-Play scoreboard with a small two-line monochrome message center. Both scoreboards would be upgraded in 1986 with the addition of three front-projection videoboards on top of each scoreboard. The center videoboard showed live game footage, fan shots, and replays while the left and right videoboards showed slides displaying advertisements for the Rockets' (and Aeros') sponsors. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lakewood Church Central Campus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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