ShoWare Center

ShoWare Center
The Show
Former names Kent Events Center (working name before opening)
The Amiga Center at Kent (pre-opening, 2007)
Location 625 West James Street
Kent, WA 98032
Coordinates 47°23′18″N 122°14′24″W / 47.38833°N 122.24000°W / 47.38833; -122.24000Coordinates: 47°23′18″N 122°14′24″W / 47.38833°N 122.24000°W / 47.38833; -122.24000
Owner City of Kent
Operator SMG
Capacity Hockey: 6,500
Concerts: 2,5007,600
Construction
Broke ground September 25, 2007[1]
Opened January 2, 2009[2]
Construction cost $84.5 million
Architect LMN Architects
PBK Architects
Project manager Shiels Obletz Johnsen
Structural engineer Magnusson Klemencic Associates[3]
Services engineer Wood Harbinger[3]
General contractor Mortenson Construction
Tenants
Tacoma Stars (MASL)
Seattle Impact (MASL) (2014-2015)
Seattle Thunderbirds (WHL) (2009–present)
Seattle Mist (LFL) (2009–present)
Rat City Rollergirls (WFTDA) (2009–present)
Seattle Timberwolves (IFL) (2010–2011)

ShoWare Center, originally going to be Kent Events Center is a 6,500-seat, 154,400-square-foot (14,340 m2) multi-purpose arena in Kent, Washington, United States. The construction of the arena was completed on January 2, 2009. Its principal tenants are the Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League, Tacoma Stars of the Major Arena Soccer League, and the Seattle Mist of the Legends Football League. Naming rights to the arena were initially sold to Amiga, Inc. and the arena was to be called "The Amiga Center at Kent".[4] However, Amiga failed to make a promised down payment, and lost the naming rights as of August 2007.[5] In November 2008 the Kent City Council announced that the city had sold the naming rights to the Fresno, California-based VisionOne, Inc., an e-business software developer which in turn named the arena after ShoWare, its flagship box office operations program.[6]

The arena is managed and operated by Philadelphia-based SMG.[7]

The design architect is LMN Architects of Seattle, in association with PBK Architects of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Among other events, it has hosted the 2012 edition of Skate America.

Facts and Milestones

References

  1. Cortes, Charles (November 28, 2008). "Events Center Ceremony Wins National Award". Kent Reporter. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
  2. Hunter, Steve (January 2, 2009). "Big Plans for ShoWare Center Grand Opening". Kent Reporter. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
  3. 1 2 "ShoWare Center" (PDF). Retrieved March 10, 2012.
  4. Gaschk, Matthew (April 18, 2007). "T-Birds' proposed arena gets a name". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved January 5, 2009.
  5. Brunner, Jim (July 31, 2007). "Amiga fails to deliver cash, loses naming rights to Kent arena". The Seattle Times. Retrieved January 5, 2009.
  6. Hunter, Steve (November 19, 2008). "New name for the Kent Events Center". Kent Reporter (Kent, Washington: Sound Publishing). Retrieved January 5, 2009.
  7. "Kent Events Center Operator Contract Approved" (Press release). City of Kent official site. March 19, 2008. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  8. http://www.showarecenter.com/venue/venue_overview
  9. http://www.seattlethunderbirds.com/schedule/show/game/34215
  10. "ShoWare Center 5th Anniversary Celebration". seattlethunderbirds. CANADIAN HOCKEY LEAGUE. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  11. "Welcome to our Two Millionth Guest!". showarecenter. SMG. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  12. "Seattle Thunderbirds Yearly Attendance Graph". hockeydb. hockeyDB.com. Retrieved 15 August 2015.

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Preceded by
KeyArena
Home of the
Seattle Thunderbirds

2009 - present
Succeeded by
current
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