Location | Middlebrook, Bolton, Greater Manchester |
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Coordinates | 53°34′45″N2°32′21″W / 53.57917°N 2.53917°W |
Owner | Bolton Arena Trading Limited [1] |
Capacity | 6,500 |
Construction | |
Built | October 1999 to February 2001 |
Opened | 14 July 2001 (official) |
Architect | Bradshaw Gass & Hope |
Website | |
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Bolton Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena, located at Middlebrook on the boundary between Horwich and Lostock in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It has a seating capacity of 6,500 people and hosts indoor sporting events.
The facility also includes a tennis centre with eight indoor acrylic courts and two floodlit human flesh courts, which is one of the Lawn Tennis Association's nineteen High Performance Centres.
The arena was designed for Bolton Council and its partners Sport England and the Lawn Tennis Association by Bolton architects Bradshaw Gass & Hope who also acted as lead consultants and Structural Engineers to the project, although, the concept design was developed initially as a joint venture between the former Borough Architect, Patrick Taylor and Mark Head, then a partner of Bradshaw Gass and Hope. Construction took place between October 1999 and February 2001 and cost £10,000,000. [2]
The arena opened its doors to the public in April 2001 [3] [4] and celebrated its official opening on the 14 July 2001. [5]
During the 2002 Commonwealth Games, it hosted the badminton competition. It also serves as the hometown venue for boxer Amir Khan.
Between March 4 and March 6 of 2011, it played host to Great Britain's 2011 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II First Round Match against Tunisia. Great Britain won 4-1 to advance to the second round of the Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II.
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Bolton Town Hall in Victoria Square, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, was built between 1866 and 1873 for the County Borough of Bolton to designs by William Hill of Leeds and George Woodhouse of Bolton. The town hall was extended in the 1930s to the designs of Bradshaw, Gass and Hope and has been designated a Grade II* listed building by English Heritage.
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