Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena

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The Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena (popularly known as Spokane Arena) is a 10,440-seat multi-purpose arena in Spokane, Washington, USA. The arena opened in 1995 and replaced the Spokane Coliseum. It is home to the Spokane Chiefs ice hockey team and the Spokane Shock arena football team, and also serves as a secondary home for the men's basketball program of Gonzaga University (until recently for high-profile nonconference games, now for Gonzaga's annual game with local rival Eastern Washington University). It also hosts the Washington Class B state high school basketball tournament annually. Notably, this was the reason why the West Coast Conference tournament had never been in Spokane before 2006; the Class B and WCC tournaments clash every year, and Gonzaga's arena at that time was too small to host the WCC tournament. In 2004, Gonzaga opened a new basketball arena, the McCarthey Athletic Center, which enabled it to enter the WCC tournament rotation. The arena also hosted the 1998 Memorial Cup tournament.

Inside the sold-out Spokane Arena on Teddy Bear Toss night. The 10,750-seat Arena is the 2nd largest indoor Arena in Washington state. The Spokane Chiefs and Spokane Shock call it home.

The arena also seats 12,210 for basketball, between 11,874 to 12,638 for end-stage concerts, 12,494 for center-stage shows and 6,951 for half-house shows. The arena contains five truck docks, not enough for large shows, which can load and unload eight trucks at the same time. Ironically, the arena's unloading facilities, can accommodate these same trucks, which load and unload, unobstructed, directly into the marshalling area at the Arena floor's west end. The layout of the Event level minimizes unauthorized backstage access. Backstage are three star dressing rooms, two promoter offices (located in the marshalling area), and seven team dressing rooms, as well as a dressing room for officials.

The arena contains a 32,000-square-foot arena floor, a 35,000-square-foot concourse, and 16 luxury suites containing a total of 146 seats. There are six meeting rooms at the arena, including a 550-square-foot Green Room, a 2,400-square-foot Arena Club, and a 4,500-square-foot press room which doubles as a meeting room. The meeting rooms total 10,050 square feet of space.

The arena's state-of-the-art video system features a state-of-the-art Viacom Sports 12 mm LED Display. It demonstrates exceptional color reproduction and the best off-angle viewing available for any LED format. The modular display is 15' x 20' and is capable of separating into two working units, and of moving forward approximately 100' and down to approximately 20' off the arena floor. The arena's public parking lots are separated from two acres of parking for trucks and buses.

Artists such as Cher, The Eagles, Elton John, Creed, The Dixie Chicks and Garth Brooks have performed concerts here.

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