[Chron] Toyota Center will be renovated for roughly 30 mill

We need more Tilman murals

 

•Houston's home will shine brighter, with new rings of lights circling the top of the lower bowl like a crown.

•It began with the upgrades to clubs before the more extensive renovations began this offseason with more planned for each of the next two offseasons, ranging from backstage improvements to a new center arena scoreboard.

•“I think the first thing people will see is we have added another LED ribbon board above (the original) and another ribbon below. That’s used for game presentation and hyping up the crowd and sometimes for partners and sponsors. We also updated the two end zone scoreboards, so they are both 10 percent bigger than they were before. We have four new signs over the voms. Those are now digital, so much more modern. That is what they’ll notice this year.”

•“Phase two will start whenever basketball season is over this year. All of the equipment that will control these boards will be upgraded so we will have a brand-new control room. We are relocating it. And there will be a new center hung scoreboard.”

•“The new scoreboard will have an underbelly for people that are sitting close to the floor so they will have a different view. They won’t have to look straight up. “The current board has some areas that if you’re in the upper bowl can block the side view. This one will be fully curved so there is no obstructed view. And then, the boards on the end will be about 20 percent larger than they are now. Everyone in the end zone and the upper bowl will have a much cleaner view. And the folks on the side, it’ll come much closer to them. And if you are down low, you’ll have that under belly to view.”

•“There will be new grab-and-go concession stands after the success of the first two added last season. The Sire Spirits club will have a season-ticket option for fans that in addition to the ledge dining wanted to hang out and watch games in the club. Lance McCullers Jr.’s Maven Coffee will open a location. There will be a Garrison Brothers Distillery bar new to the upper concourse. There will be updates to the Memorial-Hermann children’s sky court.”

•“One of our biggest priorities is to host as many basketball games as possible, which means to play as many basketball games as possible, and to host as many concerts,” Sheirr said. “The in-season tournament will be a very different look and feel for the home games we have.”

•“This summer we spent a lot of time really planning for the future of the arena. We’re mapping what those changes are going to be, what the timeline is going to be. Our goal is to make sure we keep the facility the most premium live sports and entertainment venue in the city. That is going to include what does the concourse look like, what does the main entrance look like, what does the team shop look like, what events can this building serve.”


https://www.houstonchronicle.com/te...kets-nhl-ready-ice-toyota-center-18410402.php

When listing plans for future phases of the renovation plans, Rockets president of business operations Gretchen Sheirr included “making sure this building is ready for anything, which includes making sure it’s hockey ready.”

The Rockets plan to add the “ice machine” that would be needed for Toyota Center to become an NHL venue, though there are no immediate plans to bring the NHL to Houston.

Toyota Center does not have the equipment to produce NHL-quality ice. Portable machines can be brought in, as with the NHL’s annual Winter Classic outdoor games or with ice shows. That would be about a four-day process in an arena and unlikely for an NHL venue.

Adding the equipment needed to make Toyota Center suitable for the NHL, however, sounded to be more of a plan than a possibility.

“We are looking at things all the time,” Sheirr said. “Making sure it’s hockey ready is going to be important for the future of the city and the future of the arena.”

 

$30,000,000?

So I guess maybe they can get the Carmelo Anthony and James Harden murals taken down and paint over all the references to Kevin Porter Jr. Maybe if we are lucky they can get some more trash cans as well - but that is about it, that isn't a lot of money to spend, they are giving FVF more money this year to hit some jumpers and make sure no one disrupts practice.

 

"Houston's home will shine brighter, with new rings of lights circling the top of the lower bowl like a crown."

Why do they want to highlight the empty lower bowl? I'd think they'd pay money to make it darker.

 

**** the Toyota Center, they should just buy back the Summit from Joel Osteen and renovate that instead.

 

So still no upgrades to the shoddy acoustics in that place? That place is the worst for concerts if you are not on the floor. Lighting and club seats were never the issue I found. The focus continues to be what is best to maintain that oil and gas executive presence.

 

they're wanting to highlight one of the worst visuals at TC and an empty lower bowl with rings of lights.

that's a downgrade, not upgrade

 

Acoustics are primarily about shape. Good luck fixing that. Unless they can make improvements to the sound system & positioning itself.

 

I hate how they light up all the stands, I much prefer the stage style lighting.

 

Lol why would you have more lights and brighter that focus on empty seats?! Again showing why a lot of these people don’t know what they’re doing.

 

I hope the new lights don’t cause a nasty glare on the floor. Some arenas have that and it’s really annoying.

 

Considering our current roster makeup, "Legacy of Bigs" should be replaced by "Legacy of Kids."

 

These new lights will actually produce holograms of fans. The lower bowl will always look full including Tupac hologram behind the visiting bench.

 

they should be dimming the lights theater style…the empty lower bowl is an eyesore of epic proportions

 

I think they might put up a nice neon sign with some of that money:

YUM YUM NACHOS​

 

the toyota center has not aged well unfortunately. the exterior looks so dated and not timeless like some of these other arenas like american airlines center. also doesn't have the futuristic looks you see new arenas have nowadays like the moody center in ATX. but they need to dim the lower bowl like Crypto arena

 

They should remove all the clocks and put slot machines and video poker in the hallways.

 

Spoiler

 

I am not seeing a downside