Toyota Center (Kennewick, Washington)

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Toyota Center
The Coliseum, Retter & Company Theatre
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Toyota Center
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Toyota Center
Location within the United States
Former namesThree Rivers Coliseum
(2004–2005)
Tri-Cities Coliseum
(1988–2004)
Location7016 W. Grandridge Blvd.
Kennewick, Washington, U.S.
Coordinates 46°13′12″N119°13′01″W / 46.22°N 119.217°W / 46.22; -119.217
OwnerCity of Kennewick
OperatorVenuWorks
Capacity 7,200 (concerts)
6,519 (basketball)
5,694 (hockey)
2,081 (theatre) [1]
SurfaceMulti-surface
Construction
Broke ground1987
OpenedNovember 19, 1988 [2]
36 years ago
Construction cost $10 million [3]
($25.8 million in 2023 [4] )
ArchitectPBK 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)
Website
www.yourtoyotacenter.com
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The Toyota Center is a multi-purpose arena in the northwest United States, located in Kennewick, Washington.

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Opened 36 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 Toyota Center is located west of central Kennewick, just northwest of Vista Field, which closed eleven years ago in 2013. The elevation at ground level is approximately 500 feet (150 m) above sea level.

Sports

The Toyota Center is home to the Western Hockey League's Tri-City Americans hockey team. [6] The center was formerly the home of the Tri-City Chinook of the Continental Basketball Association [7] and the Tri-Cities Fever indoor football team. The seating capacity for hockey is about 6,000.

During the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle, the venue was used for ice hockey, since the Kingdome was in use by the Mariners. [8] It has also hosted the state championships for high school volleyball, held in November.

Concerts and shows

The arena is also used for concerts (capacity 7,715), banquets, ice shows, circuses, and trade shows (27,132 square feet (2,520 m2) of space). Recently, the theatre configuration of the facility has been named "Retter and Company Theatre", sponsored by Retter & Company Sotheby's International Realty & SVN Retter & Company, and the facility now hosts Broadway shows.

It also hosted acts such as Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Slipknot, and Avenged Sevenfold who to date holds the record for largest attendance for any event held, with a sellout of 6,842, based on the configuration for the concert. The legendary rock band KISS is scheduled to perform on July 10, 2016, and is expected to be the highest grossing and biggest concert ever held at the Toyota Center. [9] A concert by Shinedown was filmed at the Toyota Center, and aired on Palladia with the title Madness from Washington State.

Other events

The Toyota Center has also hosted yearly Jehovah's Witnesses conventions during the month of July. It has held numerous professional wrestling events: WWE house shows when WWE is taping Monday Night Raw or Friday Night Smackdown or a PPV event in the nearby cities of Spokane, Yakima, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon.

The arena also hosts children's events, such as Sesame Street Live Make a New Friend!, making the venue an attraction for all ages. [10]

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  2. ↑ Kathleen Knutson (20 November 1988). "A Dream Fulfilled – Developer sees state-of-the-art building as first of many". Tri-City Herald. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  3. ↑ Jim Riley (21 November 1988). "Tri-Cities steps into the big-time with Coliseum". Tri-City Herald. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
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  9. ↑ "Legendary rock band KISS to perform July 10 in Kennewick | Tri-City Herald". Archived from the original on 2016-04-12.
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