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The Toyota Center is an indoor arena located at 1510 Polk Street in Downtown
Downtown Houston

Downtown Houston is the largest business district of Houston, Texas, United States.Downtown Houston contains the headquarters of many prominent companies....
 Houston, Texas
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
.

Named after the Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese automobile manufacturer
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas is a truck factory based in San Antonio, Texas. It is owned and operated by Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan, one of six manufacturing plants....
 Toyota, the Toyota Center houses two teams: The Houston Rockets
Houston Rockets

The Houston Rockets are an Major North American professional sports teams basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The team plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in National Basketball Association ....
 of the NBA and The Houston Aeros
Houston Aeros

The Houston Aeros are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They play in Houston, Texas, USA at the Toyota Center ....
 of the AHL.

002, the Houston sports teams pressured the city for a new arena to be built to replace the Compaq Center
Compaq Center (Houston)

The Lakewood Church Central Campus is a house of worship in Houston, United States. From 1975 until 1998, it was a multi-purpose sports arena known as The Summit, and from 1998 until 2003 it was known as the Compaq Center....
, formerly known as the Summit. As a result, the Toyota Center was built and has since become their new home.

The Toyota Center can seat 18,300 for basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
, 17,800 for hockey
Hockey

Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a ball, or a hard, round, rubber or heavy plastic disc called a Hockey puck, into the opponent's net or goal, using a hockey stick....
, and up to 19,000 for concerts.






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The Toyota Center is an indoor arena located at 1510 Polk Street in Downtown
Downtown Houston

Downtown Houston is the largest business district of Houston, Texas, United States.Downtown Houston contains the headquarters of many prominent companies....
 Houston, Texas
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
.

Named after the Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese automobile manufacturer
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas is a truck factory based in San Antonio, Texas. It is owned and operated by Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan, one of six manufacturing plants....
 Toyota, the Toyota Center houses two teams: The Houston Rockets
Houston Rockets

The Houston Rockets are an Major North American professional sports teams basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The team plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in National Basketball Association ....
 of the NBA and The Houston Aeros
Houston Aeros

The Houston Aeros are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They play in Houston, Texas, USA at the Toyota Center ....
 of the AHL.

History

In 2002, the Houston sports teams pressured the city for a new arena to be built to replace the Compaq Center
Compaq Center (Houston)

The Lakewood Church Central Campus is a house of worship in Houston, United States. From 1975 until 1998, it was a multi-purpose sports arena known as The Summit, and from 1998 until 2003 it was known as the Compaq Center....
, formerly known as the Summit. As a result, the Toyota Center was built and has since become their new home.

The Toyota Center can seat 18,300 for basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
, 17,800 for hockey
Hockey

Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a ball, or a hard, round, rubber or heavy plastic disc called a Hockey puck, into the opponent's net or goal, using a hockey stick....
, and up to 19,000 for concerts. It has 2,900 club seats and 103 luxury suites. There are over 10,000 parking spaces within a few blocks of the facility, including the 2,500-space Toyota Tundra garage connected to the arena via private skybridge.

The current record for the most people in attendance to an event held at the Toyota Center was set on November 20, 2008 when Metallica played to a sold out crowd during the World Magnetic tour.

The Toyota Center was the winner of the Allen Award for Civic Enhancement by Central Houston in 2003, the "Rookie of the Year" award by the Harlem Globetrotters in 2004 and was a finalist for Pollstar Magazine’s "Best New Concert Venue" award. Attendance at events during the facility's first year exceeded 1.5 million people.

Events


The first event after the arena's opening ceremony was a Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
 concert on October 6, 2003. The first Rockets
Houston Rockets

The Houston Rockets are an Major North American professional sports teams basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The team plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in National Basketball Association ....
 game at the Toyota Center was against the Denver Nuggets
Denver Nuggets

The Denver Nuggets are a professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado, Colorado. They play in the National Basketball Association ....
 on October 30, 2003.

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