Berry Center Stadium: Cypress, Texas
Schools from the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District get to share the jaw-dropping Berry Center facility, which includes an arena and numerous meeting rooms.
Photo courtesy of the Berry Center
The Richard E. Berry Educational
Support Center is actually five facilities in one. It includes an
11,000-seat stadium, 456-seat theater, 9,500-seat multipurpose arena,
conference center and satellite food production center.
The Berry
Center was part of a $470.5 million bond referendum. Its cost was $84
million and opened in 2006 on a 65-acre site in Cypress, Texas, near Houston.
The
facility was necessary due to the area's rapid growth and the cost of
renting facilities for graduation and other major events, which ran into
the thousands of dollars each year. For example, in 2005 graduation
ceremonies at a rented stadium cost the Cy-Fair community an estimated
$170,000.
All 10 schools in the district play their home games
at either the Berry Center or at the district's other field, Ken
Pridgeon Stadium.
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