Denny Sanford Premier Center

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Denny Sanford Premier Center
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Denny Sanford Premier Center
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Denny Sanford Premier Center
Location within the United States
Location1201 N West
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57104
Coordinates 43°33′42″N96°45′00″W / 43.56167°N 96.75000°W / 43.56167; -96.75000
Owner City of Sioux Falls
Operator ASM Global
Capacity 13,000 (Concerts)
12,000 (Basketball)
10,600 (Indoor Football)
10,678 (Hockey) [1]
Construction
Broke groundAugust 30, 2012 [2]
OpenedSeptember 19, 2014 [2]
Construction cost $117 million [2]
($145 million in 2022 dollars [3] )
ArchitectSink Combs Dethlefs
Koch Hazard [4]
Structural engineerMartin/Martin, Inc. [5]
Services engineerM–E Engineers, Inc. [5]
General contractorMortenson Construction [4]
Tenants
Sioux Falls Stampede (USHL) (2014–present)
Sioux Falls Storm (IFL) (2015–present)

The Denny Sanford Premier Center is an indoor arena in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The building is located at 1201 North West Avenue, and is connected to the Sioux Falls Arena and Sioux Falls Convention Center. The Arena's naming rights partners, and largest sponsors, are Sanford Health, First Premier Bank and Premier Bankcard. [6]

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Completed in 2014, the arena has a seating capacity of approximately 12,000 spectators and replaces the DakotaDome and Rushmore Plaza Civic Center as the largest indoor venue in South Dakota. [7] The Sioux Falls Arena hosts smaller concerts and events, while the Denny Sanford Premier Center hosts large scale concerts and sporting events. [8]

History

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The Premier Center (Southeast view)

A replacement of the Sioux Falls Arena had been discussed since 1999, with numerous task forces formed and studies completed to determine the need for a new events center. [2] The Sioux Falls Arena was built in 1961 when the population of Sioux Falls was 65,000. [9] By 2000, the population had nearly doubled to 124,000 [9] while updates to the Arena were few and far between. After years of arguments and meetings, the new events center was put to a public vote in a special election on November 8, 2011. By a vote of 23,284 to 16,807, Sioux Falls citizens passed the events center special ballot, allowing design and construction of a new events center to begin. [4] Breaking ground in 2014, it was built on the west side of the Sioux Falls Convention Center. [10]

Events

Denny Sanford Premier Center hosting the Professional Bull Riders on April 7, 2019. PBR @ Denny Sanford Premier Center, April 7 2019.jpg
Denny Sanford Premier Center hosting the Professional Bull Riders on April 7, 2019.

The first concert, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and Starship featuring Mickey Thomas was held on September 24, 2014. On October 3, 2014, Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line performed with Tyler Farr. [11]

Slipknot, along with guests Korn and opening band King 810, performed as part of the "Prepare for Hell" tour on November 9, 2014. [12] Eric Church and Dwight Yoakam performed at the venue on December 6, 2014 as part of The Outsiders World Tour. [13]

The Premier Center hosts the Summit League men's and women's basketball tournaments every year in March. The winners receive automatic berths in the NCAA Division I men's and women's tournaments. In 2024, the Men's and Womens' Championships set a tournament record with more 73,000 attending the tournament. The women's tournament broke their attendance record as well with over 36,000 people attending their games. The attendance of 36,504 ranked 4th in the country for a women's conference tournament behind only the Big Ten, ACC, and SEC.

The arena also hosts the Sioux Falls Stampede of the United States Hockey League and the Sioux Falls Storm of the Indoor Football League.

In 2016, the Premier Center hosted a regional [14] for the NCAA Women's DI Basketball Tournament. Syracuse defeated Tennessee in the regional final to advance to the Final Four held in Indianapolis.

From 2015 to 2017, the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) association hosted an annual Built Ford Tough Series event. Since 2017 the PBR has hosted an Unleash the Beast Series event at the Premier Center, known as the First Premier Bank/Premier Bankcard Invitational. [15] [16] Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood brought their three and half year world tour to the arena for nine sold out concerts in September 2017.[ citation needed ]

Shania Twain brought her Rock This Country Tour to the arena on September 23, 2015. She returned for her Shania Now Tour on May 16, 2018. James Taylor performed there with his band.

Paul McCartney kicked off the Midwest leg of his One on One Tour at the arena on May 2, 2016. This marked his first performance in South Dakota as well as McCartney's first-ever performance as a solo artist of "A Hard Day's Night" and the first time the song was performed by a Beatle in half a century since the Beatles played it for the last time on 31 August 1965 at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California.

Notable Performers

In the relatively short history of the Premier Center, the venue has hosted a wide variety of concerts and many notable performers including; Paul McCartney, Elton John, Eagles, Shania Twain, Nickelback, Demi Lovato, Eric Church, Morgan Wallen, Luke Combs, Thomas Rhett, Ed Sheeran, Kenny Chesney, Rod Stewart, Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Lil Wayne, Rascal Flatts, Florida Georgia Line, Dolly Parton, Toby Keith, Garth Brooks, Pentatonix, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Foo Fighters, KISS, Fleetwood Mac, Journey, Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, Imagine Dragons, Reba McEntire, Cher, Snoop Dogg, Chris Stapleton, Lauren Daigle, Kane Brown, Kelsea Ballerini, Brooks & Dunn, Greta Van Fleet, Backstreet Boys, Cody Johnson, Jelly Roll, Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.

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