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The George R. Brown Convention Center was opened on the east side of downtown Houston in 1987. The public fanfare included a parade, music festival, aerial artwork, red-carpet tours, and a ribbon-cutting by Mayor Kathryn Whitmire. The center was named for the late Houston entrepreneur, civic leader and philanthropist George R. Brown. Brown’s Texas Eastern Corp. donated six of the 11 blocks required to build Houston’s sparkling red-white-and-blue convention center.
The sleek 100-foot-high building replaced the obsolete Albert Thomas Convention Center, which was later redeveloped into the Bayou Place entertainment complex at its site in the downtown Theater District. The futuristic-looking new convention center was designed by a consortium of Houston architects and engineers to symbolize the building’s devotion to function, according to chief designer Mario Bolullo of Golemon & Bolullo Architects.
