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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

When Hurricane Katrina's evacuees overflowed the Astrodome in 2005, this building absorbed 7,000 of them; twelve years later it sheltered Houston's own during Harvey for 22 straight days, serving a quarter of a million hot meals. The George R. Brown Convention Center, on the east side of downtown Houston at 1001 Avenida de las Americas, is more than a trade hall - it is civic infrastructure in the fullest sense. Opened on 26 September 1987 and named for the engineer-philanthropist who built Bro...