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The city's Major League Baseball team, playing at Daikin Park (Minute Maid Park), celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2012. It was also the last season for the Astros in the National League; they moved to the American League in 2013.
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Houston's Major League Soccer team plays in Shell Energy Stadium. Located in the East End, it is the first major soccer-specific stadium in the US in a downtown area.
Houston's representative in the National Women's Soccer League. The team is owned and operated by the Dynamo and also plays at Shell Energy Stadium.
Discovery Green opened April 13, 2008. The park is located across the Avenida de las Americas from the George R. Brown Convention Center and the Hilton Americas-Houston Hotel.
The city's NBA (basketball) team plays at the Toyota Center.
Surrounded by some of the city's oldest buildings, the site was once home to City Hall in previous years. In 2010, the block-sized space was transformed into a modern park, with features akin to Discovery Green but on a more compact scale. At the center of the park is local favorite Niko Niko's.
The Chase Tower is the tallest building in Houston, the second tallest building in Texas (the tallest from 1982-2025), and the tallest five-sided building in the world.