Lakewood Church Central Campus

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Lakewood Church – Central Campus
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Exterior of the church (c.2005)
Lakewood Church Central Campus
Former namesThe Summit (1975–1998)
Compaq Center (1998–2003)
Lakewood International Center (2003–05 renovations)
Address3700 Southwest Freeway
Location Houston, Texas
Coordinates 29°43′49″N95°26′6″W / 29.73028°N 95.43500°W / 29.73028; -95.43500
Owner Lakewood Church
Capacity 16,800
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
Scoreboard Fair Play
Construction
Broke groundDecember 1973
OpenedNovember 1, 1975
ClosedDecember 1, 2003 (as a sports arena)
ReopenedJuly 16, 2005
Construction costUS$27 million
($178 million in 2022 dollars [1] )
Architect
  • Kenneth Bentsen Associates
  • Lloyd Jones Associates
Structural engineer Walter P Moore [2]
Tenants
Houston Aeros (WHA) (1975–78)
Houston Rockets (NBA) (1975–2003)
Houston Summit (MISL) (1978–80)
Houston Aeros (IHL/AHL) (1994–2003)
Houston Hotshots (CISL) (1994–97)
Houston Thunderbears/Texas Terror (AFL) (1996–2001)
Houston Comets (WNBA) (1997–2003)
Lakewood Church (2005–present)
Building details
General information
Renovated2004–2005
Renovation cost$95 million
($147 million in 2022 dollars [1] )
Renovating team
Architect(s)
  • Morris Architects
  • Shaw Architects
Structural engineerWalter P Moore
Services engineerCHPA & Associates
Other designers
  • Irvine Team
  • Studio Red Architects
Main contractorTellepsen Builders

The Lakewood Church Central Campus is the main facility of Lakewood Church, a megachurch in Houston, Texas, five miles southwest of Downtown Houston and next to Greenway Plaza.

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From 1975 to 2003, the building served as a multi-purpose sports arena for professional teams, notably the NBA's Houston Rockets. It was known as The Summit until 1998, when technology firm Compaq bought naming rights and dubbed it Compaq Center. That name was dropped when Toyota Center opened as a new and more advanced professional sports venue in the same city, [3] and the building was leased to Lakewood Church. Seven years later, in 2010, the church bought the building outright.

Construction of The Summit

The Summit stands among the high-rise office buildings of Greenway Plaza, c. 1994. The Summit, exterior, Houston.jpg
The Summit stands among the high-rise office buildings of Greenway Plaza, c. 1994.

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. [4]

Completed in 1975 at a cost of $18 million, [5] there was an Opening Night Spectacular called "Heart To Heart", benefitting the Baylor College of Medicine, The Methodist Hospital, and the Texas Heart Institute. [6] Andy Williams was the headliner for that evening's extravaganza. 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 multibillion-dollar entertainment industry that it is today. The Omni in Atlanta (now the site of State Farm Arena), McNichols Sports Arena in Denver (now a parking lot for Empower Field at Mile High), and the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio (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.

Notable events

Sports

The Summit housed the Rockets, Aeros, Comets and several arena football sports teams [7] 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 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the Harlem Globetrotters, Sesame Street Live and Disney on Ice. [8]

The NBA Finals were hosted by The Summit in 1981, 1986, 1994, and 1995, including the deciding games of 1994 and 1995, and the celebrations that followed. The Summit also hosted the WNBA championships of 1997 through 2000, all of which were won by the Houston Comets.

The first professional wrestling event at the Summit was promoted by Houston Wrestling on May 29, 1977, headlined by the American Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Champion Nick Bockwinkel drawing Terry Funk. On January 7, 1979, Dusty Rhodes won the NWA Texas Brass Knuckles Championship from Mark Lewin. The World Wrestling Federation aired the first TV card from the venue on October 19, 1986, featuring Hulk Hogan defending his title against Paul Orndorff and a $50,000 tag team battle royal. It held the Royal Rumble on January 15, 1989. [9] This was the first time the Royal Rumble, won by Big John Studd, was televised on pay-per-view (PPV). The newly renamed Compaq Center hosted the No Way Out of Texas PPV on February 15, 1998, and Bad Blood (the first brand-exclusive PPV held in the United States) on June 15, 2003. It hosted a live episode of SmackDown! on September 13, 2001, the first major entertainment event in the US after the September 11 attacks. [10]

Notable concerts

Prior to the construction of Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion and later, the Toyota Center, the Summit was the main Houston venue for large pop and rock music concerts. Before the Summit was opened, most large venue concerts were held at the Sam Houston Coliseum. Smaller concerts were held at Houston Music Hall or Hofheinz Pavilion.

DateArtistOpening act(s)Tour / Concert nameAttendanceRevenueNotes
November 20, 1975 The Who Toots and the Maytals The Who Tour 1975 ——The arena's first major rock concert. It was recorded and later released in 2012, as The Who: Live in Texas '75. It is also featured on the "30 Years of Maximum R&B" DVD set. [5] [11]
May 4, 1976 Wings — Wings Over the World tour ——Paul McCartney and Wings' second stop on the band's landmark North American tour, which also marked the former Beatle's second US performance since 1966.
October 31, 1976 Parliament-Funkadelic Bootsy's Rubber Band P-Funk Earth Tour ——The performance was recorded and released, as The Mothership Connection – Live from Houston in 1986 and later rereleased on DVD, as George Clinton: The Mothership Connection in 1998. A DVD of one of the opening acts, Bootsy's Rubber Band, was also released by P-Vine records.
November 6, 1976 Eagles —Hotel California Tour——
November 25, 1976 ZZ Top Rory Gallagher Worldwide Texas Tour ——
November 26, 1976
May 21, 1977 Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin North American Tour 1977 —— Bootleg recordings of this show exist.
May 23, 1977 Bad Company ————
June 24–25, 1977 Aerosmith — Rocks Tour ——Footage available on YouTube.
September 1–2, 1977 KISS Styx Love Gun Tour ——The presentations were recorded and are part of the first volume Kissology.
December 11, 1977 Queen — News of the World Tour ——The presentation was recorded and the fast video version of "We Will Rock You" was filmed here and other parts of the show have surfaced on Queen documentaries and is available readily on bootleg.
October 22, 1978 Genesis (band) —...and then there where three... World Tour16,800 / 16,800—This performance was the last show during the North American leg of the tour.
December 8, 1978 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band — Darkness Tour 12,003 / 15,000$98,925The show was released on DVD in 2010, as part of The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story box set. [12]
June 30, 1979 Bee Gees Sweet Inspirations Spirits Having Flown Tour 16,654 / 16,654$231,285 John Travolta, who was filming Urban Cowboy , made a special appearance at the show.
November 25, 1979 Billy Joel Performed three songs from the yet-to-be-released "Glass Houses"
December 9, 1980 Kansas — Audiovisions Tour —
October 7, 1981 Little River Band — Time Exposure ——The concert was filmed and released on videotape (and eventually DVD) as Live Exposure .
November 5–6, 1981 Journey — Escape Tour 34,904 / 34,904$377,577The show on the 5th was recorded for later broadcast on the King Biscuit Flower Hour.The show on the 6th was also recorded and shown on MTV, and part of the show was released as part of their Greatest Hits Live album, and later released in full as a CD/DVD package, entitled Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour , in November 2005.
October 10, 1984 Cyndi Lauper The Bangles Fun Tour ——The performance at the Summit in Houston in October, 1984, provided the footage for her "Money Changes Everything" promotional video. The show was also broadcast locally over the radio that evening.
January 11–17 1985 Prince & The Revolution – Purple Rain Tour 102,564 / 102,564$1,708,690
October 4, 1985 Mötley Crüe —Welcome to the Theatre of Pain Tour——The concert portion of the original video for their big hit "Home Sweet Home" was shot.
January 15–16, 1987 Genesis — Invisible Touch Tour ——
April 8–10, 1988 Michael Jackson — Bad World Tour ——Only a few songs have been released professionally.
July 14, 1988 Run-DMC Public Enemy, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, EPMD, J. J. Fad Run's House Tour–––
June 11, 1989 N.W.A Too Short
Kid 'n Play
Kwamé Sir Mix-a-Lot
J. J. Fad 		Straight Outta Compton Tour –––
August 22, 1989 Metallica The Cult Damaged Justice ———
April 15–16 1990 Janet Jackson Chuckii Booker Rhythm Nation World Tour 1990 27,082 / 30,000$506,903–
May 4–5, 1990 Madonna Technotronic Blond Ambition World Tour 31,427 / 31,427$881,245—
August 25, 1994 Whitney Houston – The Bodyguard World Tour ––
September 30, 1994 Aerosmith — Get a Grip Tour 16,162 / 16,162$434,700The live portions of "Blind Man" were filmed at this show.
January 25, 1996 AC/DC The Poor Ballbreaker World Tour
November 1, 1999 Limp Bizkit, Primus, Filter, Staind, Method Man & Redman Family Values Tour 1999 [13]
November 7, 1999 Ricky Martin Jessica Simpson Livin' la Vida Loca Tour
February 8, 2001 Kid Rock Buckcherry
Fuel 		American Badass Tour [14] ———
August 4, 2001 3LW

Dream

Jessica Simpson

Eve

Nelly and the St. Lunatics

Destiny's Child

MTV's TRL Tour
October 14, 2002 American Idol season 1 finalists — American Idols LIVE! Tour 2002 ———
January 22, 2003 Shakira — Tour of the Mongoose 12,735 / 12,735$702,205—
November 22, 2003 ZZ Top Los Lobos
Cross Canadian Ragweed 		Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers Tour ——This was the last concert at the arena, before it was renovated into a church. [5]

From vacancy to church

The interior of Lakewood Church Central Campus currently. It was once The Summit, and later Compaq Center, before becoming a church. Lakewood worship.jpg
The interior of Lakewood Church Central Campus currently. It was once The Summit, and later Compaq Center, before becoming a church.

In 1998, it became the first Houston sports arena to sell its naming rights. The Arena Operating Company entered into a five-year, $900,000 per year deal with then Houston-based Compaq Computer Corporation to change the name of the venue from The Summit to Compaq Center, keeping that name even after the acquisition of Compaq by Hewlett-Packard in 2002 (there was another arena named the Compaq Center in San Jose, California around this time, but has since been renamed the SAP 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, a megachurch, which invested $95 million in renovations to convert the arena into the current configuration of seats and rooms for its needs; the renovations took over 15 months to complete, and the renovations included adding five stories to add more capacity. [15] During the lease, Lakewood Church had an exclusive agreement with the City of Houston for use of the former Summit, and as such, invested heavily in the structure for its use. [5] In 2001, the church signed a 30-year lease with the city. [16]

In March 2010, the church announced that it would buy the campus outright from the city of Houston for $7.5 million, terminating the lease after 7 years. [17] Marty Aaron, a real estate appraiser, said that while an "untrained eye" would "wonder how Lakewood Church purchased the Compaq Center for $7.5 million, when this is not really an arms-length sale from the city to Lakewood Church." Aaron explained that the church "put a phenomenal amount of money into the facility after the lease was initially structured, and it's really not fair that someone else would get the benefit of that." Aaron added that converting the property to a stadium-oriented facility "would probably cost as much or more than it took to turn it into a church, and right now there are probably not very many organizations that would be willing to step forward and do that." [16] The Houston City Council was scheduled to vote on the matter on Wednesday March 24, 2010. [18] City council delayed the vote. [19] On March 30 of that year, Ronald Green, the city's chief financial officer, said that he approved of the sale of the building. [20] On March 31, 2010 the Houston City Council voted 13–2 to sell the property to Lakewood. [21]

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