What Happened to the Compaq Center? ABANDONED?
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2024
- In 2001, the Compaq Center was destined to be abandoned after the Houston Rockets moved to the Toyota Center downtown. Desperate for cash, the city put the championship arena up for sale hoping the impossible would happen, and the impossible did happen. After a $95 million dollar renovation, Lakewood Church opened their new facility in 2005 and has since never looked back with Joel Osteen preaching to almost 45,000 church-goers weekly.
Before Lakewood Church bought the venue originally known as the Summit, the Houston Rockets played four Finals series there and names like Hakeem Olajuwon, Moses Malone, Kenny Smith, Rudy Tomjanovich, Ralph Sampson, among many others, raced up and down the court. The Houston Comets won Finals championships four years in a row from 1997-2000 before later folding as an organization. The Summit hosted many of Houston's greatest concerts and held countless other events throughout its life.
Join us in this video as we tell the complete story of the iconic sports venue from the Rockets days in the San Diego to cash being found in the walls of Lakewood church in 2017.
00:00 - Intro
1:28 - San Diego Rockets
3:57 - Houston Rockets Build New Arena
6:30 - The Summit Opens
10:20 - Rockets Back-to-Back Finals Wins
15:25 - Team moves to Toyota Center
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19:43 - Beginning of Lakewood Church
22:54 - Lakewood Leases Compaq Center
26:29 - Lakewood Church Opens After Renovation
30:15 - Conclusion
What Happened to the Compaq Center? ABANDONED?
This video was an unbelievable amount of work but so happy to finally be able to share the story of the Compaq Center. Not many Modern Ruins are saved let alone become a significant local destination. Enjoy!
Thanks
The only thing you got wrong was your comments about the rockets best season the rockets best season was 2018 where they went 65 - 17
Sir, was the word hell going to be an option as the last thing you said on this video?
You messed up the year bro! It was 1986 not 1981. Second time with the mistakes! Less emphasis with the voice when speaking with the commentary. Voice sounds very annoying
Yeah I’ll get
The worst part of the story of the Summit is that the Aeros were essentially forced out of Toyota Center with nowhere else to play, and moved to Des Moines. Houston was left without a successful professional hockey franchise.
i mean.... ice never occurs in Houston naturally, it's unclear why anyone from Texas would feel in any way entitled to a NHL franchise?
The Rockets two championships happened because Micheal Jordan retired.
@@MrJCerqueiratell that to Dallas. They got the Minnesota North Stars. Houston might wind up with the Arizona Coyotes.
I always happen to come across a Joel Osteen sermon every Sunday night and seeing The Summit filled to the brim is unique to see on TV
Appreciate all the work you put into these videos! You do an awesome job! Love your vids! 💯
As a native Houstonian, it will always be The Summit to me not the Compaq Center. Nevertheless I have many great memories of this arena. The first event I remember seeing there was Muppet Babies Live.
This video brings back a lot of memories for me. It ties in with my arrival in Houston during the early 80's. I went to the original Lakewood Church one time with my sister. I also have been to the Summit for a whole bunch of concerts. David Bowie, Heart, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Elton John, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Yes, Queen, & Kansas to name a few. I went to only one Rockets game (expensive tickets) sat behind Jeff Bagwell of the Houston Astros. But I followed the Rockets through their Championship seasons! ("Never underestimate the Heart of a Champion!" - Rudy Tomjanovich. Thank you for making this video. Really well done.
Future Lakers head coach, Rudy Tomjanovich? Yes, he did coach the Lakers for a season or two, but come on man. I think he’s better known as the Rockets head coach.
He won two titles with the Rockets, there.
Yeah Rudy will never be looked at as "the Lakers coach"...... Magic Johnson coached them as well for a stint lol.
he said rockets and lakers head coach thats what he did after he retired right? theres nothing wrong with him saying lakers coach
He's still with the Lakers as a scout.
Hofheinz Pavilion is now the Fertitta Center, after an extensive renovation. The Rockets and Cougars played on a Tartan floor, rather than wood. After the Rockets left, U of H switched to wood.
Great video and I made my professional indoor soccer debut there against the Houston Hotshots in 1994. It was my first game for the Carolina Vipers of the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL). We won the game and I scored my first goal in the final seconds. Great history was made in that building and it is nice to see it was repurposed as opposed to being demolished like so many other venues.
Well researched video. Thanks for posting. Interesting to speculate if Louisville has landed the Rockets and the economic impact the team would have had on the city.
I wish I could find more videos like this with so much detail from start to end/current. Great job!
Loved this story! Tnx for all the work you put into this!
31:46 Now that would be crazy. The former Astrodome as a church! 60,000 plus people at least
Excellent video, presentation and writing bravo. Enjoyed this like a movie!
Awesome vid man. Keep it up !
Great work all the detail included makes it a one of a kind timeless account of a cities history.
You need more subscribers! Great channel!!!!
I learned something new, I always thought the Rockets' name was a nod to Houston being mission control for NASA. Never knew the Rockets 🚀 was founded in San Diego.
I've always thought the same
I really enjoyed the video and I have been curious how that came to be with Lakewood church buying the old Summit and you answered all my questions and thank you. You had mentioned that The Palace of Auburn Hills and at only 32 years old was in great condition. The Davidson family always put money into the arena and making better and always keeping it current. At 32 it was probably a top 5 arena still. When the Illitch family started building Little Caesars Arena they were in talks with current Pistons owner Tom Gore's about moving downtown to the arena. It kinda seemed like a waste leaving the Palace but the idea of the Pistons coming back to play in downtown Detroit was just to appealing to Gore's. Now that the Pistons are back playing downtown for the first time since the mid to late 70s is pretty cool. The Lions came back to downtown in 2002 after playing in Pontiac for almost 30 years. It's pretty cool to have all four teams back downtown at once. Ford Field and Comerica Park are next door to each other and Little Caesars Arena is across the street a few blocks so all 4 teams play a quarter mile of each other and makes downtown Detroit pretty awesome and also with 3 casinos and a lot of restaurant options make it pretty special.
Great documentary!!
I remember when it was The Summit! My Mom and Dad saw Parliament/Funkadelic there and the Mothership!
Also something I wish and I think you should have addressed. In the 94 playoffs, we earned a nickname called clutch city. We had big leads over phoenix in games 1 and 2 at home and we lost both of them. A local newspaper put out a headline that read “Choke City.” The rockets went on to phoenix and won games 3 and 4. That same newspaper had a new headline that said “Clutch City.” That was the birth of clutch city. Here’s the cool part. The postal service recognizes it as a legit address. If you mailed anything near the compaq center/summit with a Clutch City address, it would get there. When the Rockets moved to downtown Houston, it would also work there too.
“We”?
Sept 2023. Grew up in Houston. Watched the Summit being built. Saw MANY concerts there that were fantastic and now great stories and memories! Hoffeinze Pavillion held my heart for concerts and events! Best sound best views easiest drive and parking. Im sure its been demolished or renamed. Big churches like that are scary places to me and cold no thank you. It amazes me that nothing is ever permanent and very little is sacred. Tell me someone please; have they redone the Heights? Gentrified it even? Did they tear down the mansions that were left and standing, or were several reclaimed? Firsthand from you guys is better than you kno what! Lol thanks🙏🏻❤️
WWE Bad Blood 2003 was also held at The Summit.
Nice video!!
Great video, there’s a lot I didn’t know. I live in humble actually, and in all honesty he may have gone to the same middle school as me, with that he was definitely in my school district. I’ve been to Lakewood so many times and it still baffles me how a church can host this much. I despise the social structure and corruption used in this church, churches shouldn’t be commercialized. There’s donations to “god” but it’s donations to the church that get passed in bin from person to person to every person in the church. I feel like every church has the donation concept but to me it’s undeserving.
Churches run on donations..not sure how to explain this but that's what it is
TBH, this is more of a history of an NBA team first before the building. A little confusing.
I remember when the Summit was new. I saw Led Zepplin, ZZ Top, Heart, Genesis, Foghat, Jethro Tull, and others there.
This story is a awesome👍🏾
I was watching a news report on what other countries are doing with all their old venues. Like in one case, Brazil is converting several of the soccer stadiums into townhomes condos with sops and parks. That would be cool to see done here in the US with some of our old malls, arenas and stadiums. I feel just for nostalgia purposes. Also, I always wondered why some of the old malls were never converted into business plazas.
Jack Kent Cooke built the Forum in 1967, decades before the Palace was built. The Forum would make an interesting video as the Lakers and Kings abandoned Inglewood only to have the Rams, the Clippers eventually return
great stuff
I saw A Perfect Circle and Nine Inch Nails at the Compaq Center in 2000. It’s so weird it’s a giant church now
My first Rockets games was at the summit and it was a triple overtime win against the clippers.
13:53 Dissapointing you just blow off the greatest sports dynasty in the history of Houston with just one sentence while you describe the Rockets for 10 minutes.
The 2017 - 2022 Astros would like a word with you
I'm Catholic and don't put much credence into televangelists, but when I flip through the channels on Sunday morning and I come across Joel I'll stop and watch for a few minutes. Of all the TV preachers he's the least repulsive and always seems to have a positive message. I know he's in it to make money just like the rest of the TV preachers but he keeps the "plant your seed" spiel to a minimum.
Now I wanna watch the righteous gemstones.
Always good when a building especially one that size goes vacant but finds a tenant
Timeless architecture!
So, it makes sense why this video was suggested by RUclips, 17 years ago on this day, this facility came to be
How many remember the time Joel Olsteen refused to open the doors to Lakewood during the floods all because they just had their carpet done
And during Hurricane he closed it to the public
He lied to the public, thinking it flooded.
Astrodome being next would be incredible
Ok...before Joel took the reins at lakewood he was already writing books and was a motivational speaker. Just because it was his first time preaching doesn't mean it was the first time being in front of a crowd
Can you do Arco arena in Sacramento next
Sleepy train and it's never built neighbor are on deck for this NBA season. Not sure when between November and June that might be.
i saw that place on my trip to houston
And I will always remind my kids that I have seen Black Sabbath play "Sweet Leaf" there and Marilyn Manson tear up a Bible there
Went to games there as a kid and now there's a skatepark close Joel's mansion 👀
Funny to think The Summit, a place where a lot of iconic bands played in became a church
WWF The Royal Rumble was at the summit in Houston Texas in 1989
Great ending made me laugh
If They did move to the Astrodome that would be just marvelous
Summit is still alive but palace or boston garden not i dont why demolished nba history
I used to live down the street from Lakewood church on Edloe St at the Sendera at Greenway Apartments from 2016-2019. #Memories
I heard you say Les Alexander a bartender from new jersey smh.
I go to Lakewood
**What Happened to The Summit** I fixed your title!
nice the Summet Arena stood after the HOU Rockets era in that venue..Two championships were won in the building..🏟🏆🏆🏀🎙
Against the Knicks and the Magic. Both at home.
2003 was last season in summit
Do Texas Stadium
I had no idea at one point one of the Maloofs owned the rockets. I'm disappointed at what they did to my kings after they started going broke
That's why their last name is Maloof.
Rockets owner Charlie Thomas did not also own the Astros.............
The Gemstone family would have been interested had the time been right.
30:44
“47yrs of age!”
The Vatican. 500yrs of age
0:20 “4”
I like the outside of the summit much more than Toyota
The Summit
7:25 McAdoo
Honestly a far better fate than demolition. And that's coming from a atheist.
6:13 - There were satellites orbiting the earth way back in 1944?!?
Nope. A lot of images mapping out geography were done with on-duty or decommissioned spy planes or just ordinary planes with photographers
It's not until the '60s that satellites started mapping the Earth self-computerized
That’s a lie. The first ever satellite was Sputnik and that wasn’t launched until 1957
Yet they close their doors when the flood happened and peopled needed somewhere to go and were turned around. Pitiful.
Another great job. I was more interested in the story for the Lakewood Church. I like Joel Osteen and I enjoy his sermons. I have a personal story about Joel Osteen. I attended an event in 2019 I believe, it was the Christmas Winter event and it was at HONDA center. I was way out in the parking lot with my mother and I see a Ford Escape pull up to park a few rows back. I had purposefully parked way in the back to ensure a quick exit. Lo and behold it was Joel Osteen, he was running towards the venue. He drove a normal car, not even sure it was a rental because it looked dated, he was not in some fancy limousine, not even a driver. He drove himself, He may have been a tad behind schedule but he was determined to get there on time. I was impressed. It was also nice to find out that he and his wife had been together for some time before all of this transpired. Yeah people will complain about the megachurches but what are you gonna do. Where is your church? We are all human at the end of the day. We all have temptations, just some of us are stronger than others, to each their own. Too many people looking over the fence when they should be looking in their own yard. Peace.
Hopefully god will forgive you for hiding money behind walls, remember Joel god's watches everything, IN GOD WE TRUST !
I've been waiting for some time for a scandal to come out with Joel Osteen -- you could tell me pretty much anything scandalous and I wouldn't be shocked, he is just so strange to me anything seems possible. When I heard about the money in the wall, I thought, ok, a little underwhelming but this appears to be the inevitable scandal -- then I heard that he passed it off as normal -- I think he said it was money he had put away for some reason and then couldn't find it when he tried to retrieve it, and he was happy the money had finally been found. It appears that people did not question this and all was well -- now that kind of shocked me.
@@drew8703 The false prophet crooks !
Title is click bait
The cult leader took over it.
Joel osteen is a joke.
And you service men at gloryholes, pendejo!
This is a robot voice, anyone disagree? Someone has to have written out the script, and it wouldn't take that much more time for a person to read, so why not have an actual human voice?
That is a human voice
Place is a cult now.
That's what all churches are
ok eli gemstone