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NRG Park
Houston, TX 77054
(832) 667-1400
The NRG Arena, formerly the "Astroarena" and the "Reliant Arena", is a 350,000 square feet sports center in NRG Park, in Houston, Texas, USA. It is one of the state's major arenas and convention centers.Building formatThe NRG Arena consists of multiple rooms and divisions on two separate floors.The main partition on the first floor is the "Arena Proper", a 24,000 gross square foot arena that seats up to 8,500 people. While dwarfed by the stadiums within the complex (the NRG Astrodome seats 60,000 and NRG Stadium seats 70,000) as well as other arenas in the city (the Toyota Center seats 18,500, TDECU Stadium seats 40,000, and Minute Maid Park seats 42,000), it serves as an ideal location for events that cannot possibly fill such large arenas.In addition to the Arena Proper, there are four exhibit halls within the NRG Arena. The largest hall is Exhibit Hall D, boasting 100000sqft of space. The second is Exhibit Hall A, which has 75000sqft of space. Exhibit Halls B and C each have 50000sqft of floor space as well.The upper level maintains smaller meeting rooms and office space as well as the "Stockman's Club".HistoryConstruction of the NRG Arena originated in the early 1970s and completed in 1974 adjacent to the Astrohall. Although the Astrohall (renamed Reliant Hall temporarily) was its next door neighbor, it was demolished in May 2002 to make way for a parking lot when NRG Stadium was being completed.