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State Farm Arena is among the busiest arenas for concerts in the world, having sold well over 550,000 concert tickets in 2007 [20] and ranked as the third-busiest arena in the U.S. in 2011. State Farm has hosted such concerts as Elton John, The Who, and The Weeknd. [21]
This is a list of seating capacities for sports and entertainment arenas in the United States with at least 1,000 seats. The list is composed mostly of arenas that house sports teams (basketball, ice hockey, arena soccer and arena football) and serve as indoor venues for concerts and expositions.
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]
The third largest Illinois arena after the United Center in Chicago and the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, State Farm Center has 15,544 permanent seats but, when portable chairs are placed on the floor for an in-the-round performance, there is a potential for an additional 1,000 depending on the stage configuration.
By the year 2000, the station name had changed to Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center. [5] In June 2019, MARTA held a town hall to gather community input on a new name for the station after the demolition of the Georgia Dome and the renaming of Philips Arena to State Farm Arena. [ 6 ]
The construction of State Farm Center, originally known as the Assembly Hall, at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign consisted of building a huge indoor arena with a 400-foot-diameter (120 m) concrete dome whose center height is 125 feet (38 m) above the center floor, and which weighs 10 million pounds. [1]
Atlanta also hosted WrestleMania XXVII in the Georgia Dome on April 3, 2011. Philips Arena hosted WWE's Survivor Series pay-per-view in 2015. The company would then return for another event, this time in 2024, where State Farm Arena would host Bad Blood. The event drew WWE's largest indoor arena gate of all time, and it was WWE's 60th sold-out ...
A statue of Dominique Wilkins stands outside the main entrance of State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.The monument was designed by sculptor Brian Hanlon and depicts Wilkins, a former basketball player who spent several seasons with the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association, as he is about to perform a slam dunk.