Daikin Park (Houston, Texas)

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Daikin Park is a 41,168-seat baseball stadium located at 501 Crawford Avenue in the Ballpark District of downtown Houston, Texas. It replaced the Houston Astrodome in 2000 as the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Houston Astros.

Built at a cost of approximately $250 million, the stadium is owned by the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority, and was designed by the world-renowned architectural firm of HOK Sport (now Populous) of Kansas City.

The ballpark opened as Enron Field on April 7, 2000, with naming rights sold to the Houston energy and financial trading company Enron in a 30-year, $100 million deal. Astros management faced a public relations nightmare in 2001, however, when the corporation went bankrupt in the midst of one of the biggest scandals in American corporate history. The Astros bought back the remainder of Enron's thirty years of naming rights for $2.1 million, and temporarily re-named the stadium "Astros Field" on February 7, 2002.

On June 5, 2002, Houston-based Minute Maid, the fruit juice subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company, acquired the naming rights to the ballpark for 28 years at an estimated price of $170 million.

The deal with Coca-Cola was ended early, and the ballpark's naming rights were purchased by Daikin, a Japanese conglomerate that owns a large air conditioning factory in Waller, Texas. The ballpark was renamed on January 1, 2025

Nicknamed "The Juice Box" for its cozy hitter-friendly dimensions, Daikin Park was MLB's third moveable-roofed stadium (after Rogers Centre in Toronto and Chase Field in Phoenix).

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