Rabobank Arena
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Rabobank Arena is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Bakersfield, California. It was built in 1998, and was formerly known as Bakersfield Centennial Garden. It is home to the Bakersfield Condors ECHL ice hockey team, the Bakersfield Blitz arena football team, and will be home to the Bakersfield Jam NBA Development League team starting in the fall of 2006. It is named after the Dutch cooperative bank Rabobank, which also sponsors cycling and field hockey teams.
It is also home to the men's and women's basketball teams of California State University, Bakersfield, who currently play in the California Collegiate Athletic Association, in Division II of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The men's team plays all its home games here, whereas the women's team plays some at the smaller, on-campus Icardo Center. CSU Bakersfield is planning a move to the NCAA Division I (most likely in the Big West Conference), and will likely move all basketball games to the larger and newer Rabobank Arena. As a concert venue the arena seats 6,400 for half-house shows and up to 10,225 for center stage and end-stage shows. The arena floor measures 17,000 square feet of total space.
Attached to Rabobank Arena is a 17,840 square foot exhibit hall, which combines with a 3,000-seat theater, which measures 28,512 square feet and features a 7,830-square-foot stagehouse to create a second arena. That arena was the Condors' previous home until the Garden was built and, combined or separately, is also used for concerts (seating up to 5,800), sporting events, trade shows and, in the theater and stagehouse only, Broadway and family shows. There is also a 12,885-square foot lobby and 14 meeting rooms measuring 11,659 square feet of total space.
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