NRG Park

Lore & Background

The complex hosts many sporting events and conventions each year, the largest of which are Houston Texans home games, and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The complex is served by the Stadium Park / Astrodome station, a light rail station on the Red Line of the METRORail light rail system. It includes one of the world's largest parking lots, with 26,000 places, and hosts nearly 750 events yearly. Until 2005, the lot also served as a parking lot for Six Flags Astroworld, which has since closed. From 2018 to 2021, it served as the site of the Astroworld Festival, an annual music festival run by Travis Scott, which became the site of a deadly crowd crush in 2021.

Reader's Guide

Reliant Stadium is home to the Houston Texans and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. It was the home of Super Bowl XXXVIII in February 2004, where the New England Patriots defeated the Carolina Panthers 32-29 and where the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy took place. The stadium hosted Super Bowl LI in February 2017, won by the Patriots after storming back from down 25 points to the Atlanta Falcons, winning 34–28 in overtime. Reliant Stadium hosted WrestleMania XXV in April 2009, with a sellout attendance of 72,774 and a live gate of $6.9 million. The stadium was the first NFL stadium with a retractable roof and natural grass. The stadium can be configured to utilize a 125,000-square-foot (11,600 m2) space for general session, catered functions, exhibits, concerts, and much more. Reliant Stadium has four massive concourse levels for special events. The design of the stadium roof provides a very flexible rigging configuration for major audio and visual presentations. 200 suites complement Reliant Stadium. Reliant Center is a convention center located among the sports venues in Reliant Park. It opened in 2002 and hosts various events year-round, including portions of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, who maintains its offices on the second floor of the building. It runs over ¼ mile in length. With 706,000 square feet (65,600 m2) of contiguous single-level exhibit space divisible into 11 separate halls, Reliant Center contains 61 meeting rooms configurable into over 100 variations, 2 major conference centers, 118 loading bays, over 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) of registration space. Reliant Center is equipped with a technological infrastructure capable of providing high-speed internet access, pre-wired fiber optic cabling backbone, on-site production facilities, 120 television monitors, and web-casting abilities. Services include on-site support from telephone and internet, electrical, food and beverage, rigging, security and event staffing. Each meeting room has its own dedicated sound, lighting and networking capabilities. A 280,000-square-foot (26,000 m2) marshalling area on-site with over 200,000 square feet (20,000 m2) of space for shuttle transportation. Along with the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Reliant Center hosts some of the largest conventions and trade shows in Houston.

Did You Know?

• The Astrodome is called the 'Eighth Wonder of the World' as it is the first domed structure of its size created without a pillar supporting it in the center.
• The last concert in Reliant Astrodome featured George Strait in March 2002, singing to 68,266 people.
• The complex served as a massive shelter for refugees fleeing Hurricane Katrina in September 2005, dubbed 'Reliant City'.