Minute maid park formerly enron field houston texas.
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Built on the eastern edge of downtown houston the baseball only facility actually looks like a football stadium on the outside as minute maid park appears more rectangular than the traditional square shaped footprint that ballparks occupy.
It was the cheapest of all the retractable dome stadiums and the total cost was apparently held down by the relatively small total area of the roof made possible by the.
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The roof unlike the retractable ceiling tiles at bankone ballpark in phoenix when enron s roof panels move out of the way the entire playing field and a lot of the seats are fully exposed to.
Minute maid park located in houston texas was baseball s second retractable roof ballpark but the first for houston s.
A total of 50 000 square feet of glass in the west wall of the retractable roof give fans a view of the houston skyline even when the roof is in the closed position.
Minute maid park is a bandbox of a ballpark with two distinct personalities depending on whether its retractable roof is open or closed.
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The ballpark is houston s first retractable roofed stadium and features a natural grass playing field.
The style of each park reflects the popular architecture of the era in which it was built.
Minute maid park previously named the ballpark at union station enron field and astros field is a ballpark in downtown houston texas united states which opened in 2000 as the home stadium of the houston astros of major league baseball mlb.
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It was the predecessor to the astrodome which at the time was the first stadium that allowed fans to enjoy baseball in a climate controlled environment.
The ballpark was built as a replacement for.
Retractable roof parks can vary greatly in style from the utilitarian rogers centre to those infused with retro elements such as minute maid park to the contemporary marlins park.
