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The city's NBA (basketball) team plays at the Toyota Center.
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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 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.
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.
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.
The world's largest and oldest Art Car Parade. The event features over 250 Art Cars, more than 200,000 live spectators, and media from all over the world, making Houston ground zero of an international phenomenon. Held in April.