Event Specific Site

Every late winter in Houston,a 300 acre parking lot is converted into what is known to be the world's largest rodeo. The Houston Livestock and Rodeo event attracts 1.8 million over the course of 20 days each year.

The Reliant Park site in Houston was designed to specifically accommodate this large event. Located in a densely populated and urban district, surface parking dominates the landscape rather than parking garages. The city of Houston and private groups understood the need for the city to have a main square to serve as a gathering space for the 6 million people in the region, even if it isn't centrally located. While he pavement surrounding the structures in the park is also used for parking lots, it is very much a space for public use.

The flexibility of the site also allowed it to serve the region when nearly 40,000 people were evacuated from New Orleans in 2005 and were in need of temporary housing and medical treatment.