Charlotte Coliseum
| Charlotte Coliseum | |
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| The Hive | |
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| place | 100 Paul Buck Boulevard Charlotte , North Carolina 28266
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 11 ′ 11 ″ N , 80 ° 54 ′ 46 ″ W |
| owner | City of Charlotte |
| operator | City of Charlotte |
| start of building | 1986 |
| opening | August 11, 1988 |
| demolition | June 3, 2007 |
| surface |
Parquet ice surface |
| costs | 52 million US dollars |
| architect | Odell Associates |
| capacity | 24,042 seats (basketball) 21,684 seats (ice hockey) 23,041 seats (boxing) 23,780 seats (concert) |
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The Charlotte Coliseum was a multi-purpose hall in the city of Charlotte in the US state of North Carolina . The hall was nicknamed The Hive (German: the beehive ) because of its shape, the background noise and the resident team of Hornets ( German : Hornets ). After the city sold the property, the arena was blown up on June 3, 2007.
history
Construction work began with the groundbreaking in 1986. The arena, which opened on August 11, 1988, was equipped with luxury suites and a video cube with eight screens. The then owner George Shinn put the new venue as a trump card to an NBA - franchise agreement to bring to Charlotte. With more than 24,000 seats, it was the largest venue for the NBA at the time. A preparatory game for the US Olympic basketball team was scheduled for the day after the opening. While preparing for the game, they worked on the video cube; in the process, the scoreboard fell to the ground and was destroyed like the playing field. As a replacement, the floor was removed from the city's Independence Arena and the game could take place.
For the first seven NBA seasons, the Charlotte Coliseum was sold out at every home game. As a result of some decisions made by Hornets owner George Shinn and personal scandals surrounding him, as well as the departure of leading players such as Alonzo Mourning and Larry Johnson , the audience popularity declined over time. In addition, the Coliseum was outdated in the early 2000s compared to the modern arenas built in the 1990s. In the last season of the Hornets 2001/02 at the Coliseum in Charlotte, an average of only 11,286 spectators came to the games. This was the worst cut in the league.
In addition to the main user Charlotte Hornets, the NCAA basketball team of the Charlotte 49ers was at home in The Hive from the beginning until 1993 . The Charlotte Rage of the Arena Football League (AFL) stayed from 1992 to 1996. In 1997, the newly founded WNBA team of the Charlotte Sting moved into the sports arena and stayed there until 2005. The Carolina Cobras AFL team came to Charlotte in 2003. After two seasons, the AFL ended the franchise contract and the Cobras was stopped. The newly formed NBA team of the Charlotte Bobcats played its first season 2004/05 in the old venue, as the Charlotte Bobcats Arena (today: Time Warner Cable Arena) was only completed in 2005 and inaugurated on October 21 of that year. The last NBA game was a pre-season game between the Charlotte Bobcats and the Indiana Pacers on October 26, 2005. In the fall of 2005, the Charlotte Coliseum served as accommodation for refugees from Hurricane Katrina .
In 1991 the NBA All-Star Game was held at the Charlotte Arena. The Eastern Conference defeated the Western Conference on February 10 in front of 23,530 spectators with 116: 114. For MVP of the game was Charles Barkley (17 points and 22 rebounds ) by the Philadelphia 76ers selected. In 1994, the Final Four was the men's NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament and in 1996 the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament was the Final Four at the Coliseum . The wrestling events Unforgiven 1999 and Judgment Day 2003 of the WWE made a stop in the sports arena. Part of the 1996 US comedy film Eddie starring Whoopi Goldberg was filmed in the Charlotte Event Hall.
Web links
- basketball.ballparks.com: The Charlotte Coliseum (English)
- sports.espn.go.com: Last of its Kind: Charlotte Coliseum to be demolished Sunday (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ youtube.com: Video of blowing up (English)
- ↑ sports.espn.go.com: Last of its kind: Charlotte Coliseum to be demolished Sunday article from June 1, 2007 (English)
- ↑ espn.go.com: Shameless Hornet: George Shinn Article from November 21, 2005 (English)
- ↑ apbr.org: NBA / ABA Home Attendance totals (English)
- ↑ nba.com: May Visits Evacuees At Charlotte Coliseum ( Memento from December 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ nba.com: 1991 All-Star Game: East 116, West 114 (English)
- ↑ hickoksports.com: 1994 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament ( Memento from December 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)