The home of the Rockets and concert venue will replace thousands of its seats.
HOUSTON — One of Houston’s professional sports venues will undergo a major project starting this fall.
Toyota Center will replace its 17,000 bowl seats, General Manager Doug Hall told the Harris County Houston Sports Authority’s building committee on June 17. The seats will feature a black sports-weave material, changing the venue’s current color scheme of red. Toyota Center will not lose any seating capacity as a result of the project, Hall said at the meeting.
The project is one of the recommendations from Venue Solutions Group’s facility condition assessment of Toyota Center, which found that the arena needs $635.81 million in maintenance over the next 20 years.
The current bowl seats — other than the suite seats — are original to the building, which opened in 2003, Hall said. The Rockets expect to begin the project in October and complete it by the end of July 2026. The project will not cause any event schedule shutdowns during the 2025-26 NBA season.
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