Qwest Arena
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Qwest Arena (formerly Bank of America Centre) is multi-purpose arena in Boise, Idaho. It holds 5,300 fans for ice hockey and basketball, 5,732 for end-stage concerts, 6,400 for boxing and up to 6,800 for center-stage concerts. It contains 4,508 permanent seats. It was built for $50 million.
It has been home to the Idaho Steelheads ECHL ice hockey team since 1997, the home of the Idaho Stampede D-League basketball team during the 2001 season and again since the 2005-06 season, and in 2007 will be the home of an af2 arena football team.
Qwest Arena will host the 2007 ECHL All-Star Game. [link]
The arena features 39 corporate suites, 1,100 Club Premiere seats, standing room space for 200 people, The Zone restaurant overlooking the arena, as well as Blimpie and Pizza Hut franchises among the 9 concession stands. The arena is physically connected to the Grove Hotel at the corner of Front Street & Capitol Boulevard in Boise. The main entrance to the arena is from the Grove Plaza. There are two scoreboards and a Daktronics ProStar videoboard.
Other events hosted in the facility include concerts, trade shows, conventions, ice shows and various other sporting events. The Grove Hotel has 36,000 square feet of meeting and convention space in addition to the 22,247 square feet of arena floor space at the Qwest Arena.
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| Current arenas in the ECHL | ||
| American Conference | National Conference | |
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| Arena at Gwinnett Center | Augusta Civic Center | Bi-Lo Center | Cambria County War Memorial Arena | Carolina Coliseum | St. Lawrence Homes Home Ice | Ford Arena1 | Germain Arena | North Charleston Coliseum | Nutter Center | Pensacola Civic Center | Sovereign Bank Arena | Sovereign Center | Toledo Sports Arena | U.S. Bank Arena2 | WesBanco Arena | E Center | iPayOne Center | Long Beach Sports Arena | Orleans Arena | Qwest Arena | Rabobank Arena | Save Mart Center | Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre| Stockton Arena | Sullivan Arena | US Airways Center | |
| 1 * The Ford Bank Arena will be the home of the Texas Wildcatters starting in 2006. | ||
| 2 The U.S. Bank Arena will be the home of the Cincinnati Cyclones starting in 2006. | ||
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