| The Coliseum, Windermere Theatre | |
 Looking northeast in 2006 | |
| Former names | Three Rivers Coliseum (2004–2005) Tri-Cities Coliseum (1988–2004) |
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| Location | 7016 W. Grandridge Blvd. Kennewick, Washington, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 46°13′12″N119°13′01″W / 46.22°N 119.217°W Coordinates: 46°13′12″N119°13′01″W / 46.22°N 119.217°W |
| Owner | City of Kennewick |
| Operator | VenuWorks |
| Capacity | 7,715 (concerts) 6,000 (hockey) 2,099 (theatre) [1] |
| Surface | Multi-surface |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 1987 |
| Opened | November 19, 1988 [2] 30 years ago |
| Construction cost | $10 million [3] ($20.7 million in 2017 [4] ) |
| Architect | PBK Architects, Inc. [5] |
| Tenants | |
| Tri-City Americans (WHL) (1988–present) Tri-City Chinook (CBA) (1991–1995) Tri-Cities Fever (AF2/NIFL/IFL) (2005–2016) Tri-Cities Fire (AWFC) (2019-future) | |
| Website | |
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The Toyota Center is a multi-purpose arena in the northwest United States, located in Kennewick, Washington.
An arena, is an enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre, musical performances, or sporting events. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators, and may be covered by a roof. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the lowest point, allowing maximum visibility. Arenas are usually designed to accommodate a large number of spectators.
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Opened 30 years ago in 1988 as the Tri-Cities Coliseum, the arena's name was changed in 2004 to the Three Rivers Coliseum to match the Three Rivers Convention Center, which was built next door in the same year. In October 2005, a deal was reached between the city of Kennewick and Toyota, which agreed to pay $2 million over ten years for naming rights. The city uses the funds for needed improvements and upgrades to the facility. A smaller facility next door, built by the city in 1998, was named "Toyota Arena."
The Three Rivers Convention Center is the convention center for the Tri-Cities of south-eastern Washington, United States. It gets its name from the Snake River, Yakima River, and Columbia River, all of which intersect in the general area of the Tri-Cities. It is located in western Kennewick, adjacent to the Toyota Center, and opened in 2004.
Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. In 2017, Toyota's corporate structure consisted of 364,445 employees worldwide and, as of September 2018, was the sixth-largest company in the world by revenue. As of 2017, Toyota is the world's second-largest automotive manufacturer. Toyota was the world's first automobile manufacturer to produce more than 10 million vehicles per year which it has done since 2012, when it also reported the production of its 200-millionth vehicle. As of July 2014, Toyota was the largest listed company in Japan by market capitalization and by revenue.
In 2016, the Kennewick Public Facilities District will put to the voters an expansion of what is now known as the Three Rivers Complex. This expansion is called The Link, an ambitious $35 million project that would build a 2,300-seat theater, add 50,000 square feet (4,650 m2) of convention space, and renovate the arena. [6]
The Toyota Center is located west of central Kennewick, just northwest of Vista Field, which closed five years ago in 2013. The elevation at ground level is approximately five hundred feet (150 m) above sea level.
Vista Field was a public use airport in the northwest United States, located in Benton County, Washington. The airport was located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Kennewick and was owned by the Port of Kennewick. It was also known as Vista Field Airport.
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface . The term elevation is mainly used when referring to points on the Earth's surface, while altitude or geopotential height is used for points above the surface, such as an aircraft in flight or a spacecraft in orbit, and depth is used for points below the surface.
Mean sea level (MSL) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevation may be measured. MSL is a type of vertical datum – a standardised geodetic datum – that is used, for example, as a chart datum in cartography and marine navigation, or, in aviation, as the standard sea level at which atmospheric pressure is measured to calibrate altitude and, consequently, aircraft flight levels. A common and relatively straightforward mean sea-level standard is the midpoint between a mean low and mean high tide at a particular location.
