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State Farm Arena after renovations during a 2019 Hawks game vs the Chicago Bulls. Shortly after acquiring the Hawks and the operating rights to Philips Arena on June 24, 2015, Tony Ressler announced his intentions of remodeling the arena to keep the Hawks in Downtown Atlanta at a cost between $150 million and $250 million.
Philips Arena (now State Farm Arena) was constructed in its place, and opened on September 18, 1999. [9] [10] [11] The demolition of the Omni forced the Hawks to split their home games for the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons between the Alexander Memorial Coliseum at Georgia Tech (their first home in Atlanta), and the Georgia Dome. [5] [20] [7] [8]
Cousins' firm soon developed the Omni Coliseum, a 16,500-seat, state-of-the-art downtown Atlanta arena, for the Hawks and the expansion Atlanta Flames ice hockey franchise, which opened in 1972 as the first phase of a massive sports, office, hotel, and retail complex, most of which is now the CNN Center. Also in 1972, the Hawks debuted a new ...
On August 22, 2016, the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) announced that they would play the entirety of their 2017 and 2018 home schedules as well as any 2016 home playoff games at McCamish Pavilion due to renovations at Philips Arena conflicting with the WNBA schedule. [15]
Atlanta is home to the Atlanta Vibe, a member of the Pro Volleyball Federation (PVF). Atlanta was named as the third PVF franchise on February 16, 2023, [13] and later signed the first athlete to the league in Kentucky Wildcats' standout Leah Edmond. [14] The team's official name and branding was announced on August 4, 2023, at the AVP Tour ...
ATLANTA (AP) — To accommodate much larger crowds, the Atlanta Dream are moving their two regular-season home games against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever to the home of the NBA Hawks. The Dream's regular venue, 3,500-seat Gateway Center Arena near the city's airport, is the smallest in the WNBA.
State Farm Arena: Atlanta, Georgia: Atlanta Hawks: 17,044 1999 1999–2000 [1] [32] ... Atlanta Hawks St. Louis Hawks Milwaukee Hawks Tri-Cities Blackhawks; Georgia Dome:
O 2 Arena (2010–) 2008 and 2010 NHL Premieres, 2019 and 2022 NHL Global Series 2008, 2010, 2019, 2022 Prague, Czech Republic [117] [120] Helsinki Halli Hartwall Areena (1997–2014) Hartwall Arena (2014–2022) multiple NHL Premieres, 2018 NHL Global Series 2009–2011, 2018 Helsinki, Finland [117] [121] Uber Arena Mercedes-Benz Arena (2015–)