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The Mesquite Convention Center and Arena is a multi venue complex consisting of a 7,000-seat multi-purpose arena and a 50,000 square foot convention center in Mesquite, Texas, United States. [1] It is home to the Mesquite Championship Rodeo and the Texas Outlaws indoor soccer team of the Major Arena Soccer League. [2] [3]
It was renamed Resistol Arena for several years after the Resistol hat company purchased the naming rights. [4] [8] In 2015, the Mesquite Championship Rodeo was sold to Stace Smith Pro Rodeo. [9] [10] The facility has hosted U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, as well as Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
An 8,500-seat multi-purpose arena featuring 22,984 square feet (2,135.3 m 2) of space and a 40-foot (12 m) ceiling height.The arena hosts local concerts and sporting events, including boxing, basketball, auto racing, wrestling, and rodeos, as well as conventions, trade shows, circuses, dances and banquets for the area.
The arena is directly adjacent to Alumni, with some luxury boxes overlooking both the football field and arena floors. Conte Forum seats 8,606 spectators in its basketball configuration and 7,884 when set up for hockey. The facility also houses 950-seat Power Gym which is used for BC volleyball games and as an auxiliary basketball court. [5]
The main partition on the first floor is the "Arena Proper", a 24,000 gross square foot arena that seats up to 8,500 people. In addition to the Arena Proper, there are four exhibit halls within the NRG Arena. The largest hall is Exhibit Hall D, boasting 100,000 square feet (10,000 m 2) of space.
United Supermarkets Arena (previously the United Spirit Arena) is a multipurpose arena on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The 15,098-seat arena opened in 1999 and is home to the Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball , Texas Tech Lady Raiders basketball , and Texas Tech Red Raiders women's volleyball teams.
Concerts are held regularly in the arena and for many years, the MAC Center was a prominent concert venue for the region due to its relatively large indoor seating capacity. Until the Richfield Coliseum opened in 1974, the only arenas with larger seating capacities in the region were the 12,000-seat Cleveland Arena and 10,000-seat Public ...
James A. Rhodes Arena, nicknamed "The JAR", is an arena in Akron, Ohio, United States, on the campus of the University of Akron. Named for former Ohio governor Jim Rhodes , the arena opened in 1983 and is home to the Akron Zips men's and women's basketball teams and women's volleyball team.