Wells Fargo Center (Philadelphia)
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The Wells Fargo Center (formerly the CoreStates Center, First Union Center, Wachovia Center) is an indoor arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the home stadium of the NHL team Philadelphia Flyers and the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA. The arena was completed in 1996 on the site of the former John F. Kennedy Stadium, the construction costs amounted to 206 million U.S. dollars, which were applied for the most part by private investors. The building is located in the southeastern region of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex, which includes Lincoln Financial Field, Citizens Bank Park, and the old arena, the Wachovia Spectrum belong.
The capacity of the arena is 21,600 for basketball games and 19,519 for ice hockey games. The stadium also features 126 luxury suites and 1,880 loge seats. Originally belonged to the naming rights of the arena of CoreStates Bank, which is ready explained 40 million in U.S. dollars to pay for them, but in 1998 went the rights to the First Union Bank and five years later to the Wachovia Bank, which gave its name to the stadium. 2010, the naming rights were sold to Wells Fargo and the stadium has since been Wells Fargo Center.
Use
During the NHL lockout in 2004/ 05, used the farm team of the Flyers, the Philadelphia Phantoms to move the stadium to its home games from the old Wachovia Spectrum in the new arena. With a backdrop of 20,103 spectators at the fourth Final match for the Calder Cup the Phantoms also broke during the play-offs of their own AHL attendance record clearly.
In addition, the arena of other sporting events, such as are College Basketball ( record crowd at such a game in Pennsylvania at the meeting of the Villanova University and UConn ) discharged as well as concerts.
Among other things, the concerts of Guns N 'Roses (December 6, 2002 Chinese Democracy tour ), Billy Joel (2006 ) or by Britney Spears (2011, Femme Fatale Tour ) in the Wachovia Center took place.
Other important events
- 3 games of the World Cup of Hockey 1996
- WWF In Your House: Mind Games 1996
- NHL Stanley Cup Final 1997
- NLL 1998 final
- AHL All- Star Classic 1999
- WWF Unforgiven 2000
- Republican National Convention 2000
- NCAA Tournament East 2001
- NBA Finals 2001
- NBA All- Star Game in 2002
- X Games 2002
- X Games 2003
- WWE Royal Rumble 2004
- AHL Calder Cup Finals 2005
- NCAA Tournament first and second rounds in 2006
- WWE Survivor Series 2006