Amarillo National Center

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Coordinates: 35°12′14″N101°47′50″W / 35.20388330°N 101.797127723°W / 35.20388330; -101.797127723 The Amarillo National Center is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Amarillo, Texas. It was built in 2000. Along with the Amarillo Civic Center, it hosts local concerts and sporting events for the Amarillo area.

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Arena enclosed area designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events

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Amarillo, Texas City in Texas, United States

Amarillo is the 14th-most populous city in the state of Texas, United States. It is also the largest city in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The estimated population was 199,826 as of 2017. The Amarillo metropolitan area has an estimated population of 276,020 in four counties as of 2017. The metro population is projected to surpass 310,000 in 2020.

The arena contains 5,000 permanent seats and its 45,000-square-foot (4,200 m2) arena floor can hold an additional 5,000 floor seats.

The center is named for locally owned Amarillo National Bank.

Amarillo National Bank

Amarillo National Bank (ANB) is the largest, 100 percent family-owned bank in the United States, providing commercial banking and personal banking in Amarillo, Texas, and the Texas Panhandle. ANB operates 19 branch locations in and around the cities of Amarillo, Borger and Lubbock, as well as 94 local, branded automatic teller machines (ATMs). As of the end of the second quarter of 2014, it claimed to have more than $3.8 billion in assets. ANB employed 550 people as of October 2013.


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