{"id":127320,"date":"2025-06-26T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/127320\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T22:23:10","slug":"houston-rockets-hire-ryan-tanke-as-coo-as-team-eyes-toyota-center-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/127320\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets hire Ryan Tanke as COO as team eyes Toyota Center upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Rockets have hired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/06\/20\/twolves-lynx-execs-casson-and-tanke-step-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/06\/20\/twolves-lynx-execs-casson-and-tanke-step-down\/\">former T\u2019Wolves and Lynx COO<\/a> Ryan Tanke to the same role, with the hire coming at a \u201ccritical time for Toyota Center,\u201d according to Chandler France of the HOUSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL. Tanke takes the role from President of Business Operations Gretchen Sheirr, who had been \u201cserving in both roles concurrently,\u201d and he joins the organization with \u201csubstantial experience in arena development.\u201d Tanke was \u201cpart of a six-person design team who led\u201d the $150M renovation effort for Target Center. He recently \u201cled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/12\/16\/facilities-timberwolves-target-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/12\/16\/facilities-timberwolves-target-center\/\">another eight-figure investment into the facility<\/a>, as well, which added and expanded premium spaces, among other upgrades.\u201d The 23-year-old Toyota Center is in need of $635.81M in \u201cmaintenance and upgrades over the next 20 years.\u201d Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta is \u201ceyeing a comprehensive modernization of the facility\u201d after having \u201cinvested millions into the venue in recent years, including renovating premium spaces and adding a new center-hung scoreboard.\u201d The team also will \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/06\/19\/toyota-center-to-replace-17000-seats-in-major-renovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/06\/19\/toyota-center-to-replace-17000-seats-in-major-renovation\/\">replace all of the bowl seats at the venue<\/a> throughout this fall and spring 2026\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/2025\/06\/26\/houston-rockets-hire-timberwolves-ryan-tanke-coo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/2025\/06\/26\/houston-rockets-hire-timberwolves-ryan-tanke-coo.html\">HOUSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL, 6\/26<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockets have hired former T\u2019Wolves and Lynx COO Ryan Tanke to the same role, with the hire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,292,194,4066,7457,6,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-127320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-houstonrockets","12":"tag-leadership","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-rockets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114752009254280657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}