Philips Arena
Location	1 Philips Drive NW Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Opened	1999
Owner	Atlanta Spirit, LLC
Operator	Atlanta Spirit, LLC
Construction cost	$213. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Atlanta Spirit LLC is a partnership headquartered at 101 Marietta St 5 million
Architect	HOK Sport
Tenants	Atlanta Hawks (NBA) (1999- present) Atlanta Thrashers (NHL) (1999-present) Atlanta Dream (WNBA) (2008-present) Georgia Force (AFL) (2002, 2005-2007)
Capacity	Basketball: 18,729 Hockey and Arena football: 18,545

Philips Arena is an indoor arena in Atlanta, Georgia. HOK Sport Venue Event is an architectural firm specializing in the design of public assembly spaces and planning of major special events The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional Basketball team based in Atlanta Georgia. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) The Atlanta Thrashers are a professional Ice hockey team based in Atlanta Georgia. The National Hockey League ( NHL) is a professional Ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) The Atlanta Dream is a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA team based in the city of Atlanta. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common The Georgia Force is in no way related to the San Antonio Force, which was an Arena Football League team that played only in the 1992 season before disbanding The Arena Football League (AFL was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team Sport played on Ice. This article is about the sport of Arena Football See Arena Football (video game for the EA Sports Video game of the same name The following is a list of indoor Arenas. Africa Asia Europe Completed in 1999 at a cost of $213. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) 5 million, it is home to the Atlanta Thrashers of the NHL and the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA. The Atlanta Thrashers are a professional Ice hockey team based in Atlanta Georgia. The National Hockey League ( NHL) is a professional Ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional Basketball team based in Atlanta Georgia. It is owned and operated by Atlanta Spirit, LLC, the group of investors that also owns the Hawks and Thrashers. Atlanta Spirit LLC is a partnership headquartered at 101 Marietta St The arena seats 18,729 for basketball and 18,545 for ice hockey. Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team Sport played on Ice. The largest crowd ever for an Atlanta Hawks basketball game was in the 2008 NBA Playoffs, where there was an approximate number of people of about 20,040. It includes 92 luxury suites and 1,866 club seats. For concerts and other entertainment events, the arena can seat 21,000.

The arena is laid out in a rather unusual manner, with the club seats and luxury boxes aligned solely along one side of the playing surface, and the general admission seating along the other three sides (the arrangement was later emulated at the Detroit Lions home field Ford Field). The Detroit Lions are an American football team based in Detroit Michigan. Ford Field is an indoor football Stadium located in Detroit Michigan that is the home of the Detroit Lions of the NFL. This unique layout is a vast contrast to many of its contemporaries, which have their revenue-generating luxury boxes and club seats located in the 'belly' of the arena, thus causing the upper deck to be 2–4 stories higher. The layout at Philips was done so as to be able to bring the bulk of the seats closer to the playing surface while still making available a sufficient number of revenue-raising club seats and lodges.

On the exterior, angled steel columns supporting the roof facing downtown spell out "ATLANTA" and the side facing the Georgia World Congress Center spells out "CNN. The Georgia World Congress Center or GWCC is the major Convention center in Atlanta. Cable News Network, usually referred to by its Initialism CNN, is a major English language Television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner " The arena adjoins the CNN Center. The CNN Center is the world headquarters of the Cable News Network (CNN The Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center rail station below the arena provides access to MARTA public transportation. Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center is a station in the MARTA rail system

Philips Electronics purchased the naming rights to the arena upon construction. Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV ( Royal Philips Electronics Inc.

History

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, many cities starting building new state-of-the-art sporting venues for their NHL and/or NBA franchises, or in hopes of attaining one. The National Hockey League ( NHL) is a professional Ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America Many of these arenas had modern amenities for their high-end customers, such as luxury boxes, club seats, and large, posh club-level concourses; some even had practice facilities on-site. These attractions were rarely found in arenas constructed in the early 1970s when The Omni was built and led to its chief tenant, the Atlanta Hawks being put in a competitive disadvantage. The Omni Coliseum, usually called The Omni, from the Latin for "all" or "every" was an indoor arena located in Atlanta, Georgia The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional Basketball team based in Atlanta Georgia. The operating manager of the current arena in place Ted Turner wanted an expansion hockey team but was told by the NHL that a new arena would have to be built. Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American Media proprietor and philanthropist. The National Hockey League ( NHL) is a professional Ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America That, along with the fact that The Omni was rapidly deteriorating led to a new venue being built. After the Atlanta Hawks were eliminated from the 1997 NBA playoffs by the Chicago Bulls, the Omni was demolished and Philips Arena was constructed in its place. The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional Basketball team based in Atlanta Georgia. The Chicago Bulls are an American professional Basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois, playing in the Central Division of the Eastern

Philips Arena occupies the site of the Omni Coliseum, Atlanta's former sports arena. The Omni Coliseum, usually called The Omni, from the Latin for "all" or "every" was an indoor arena located in Atlanta, Georgia The Omni's "center-hung scoreboard" now hangs in the lobby of Philips Arena, where it still displays The Omni's logo along with that of Philips Arena, the Hawks, and the Thrashers (who never played in The Omni). The scoreboard still functions and displays information relevant to the game taking place in the arena.

World Championship Wrestling (WCW) hosted a number of professional wrestling events at Philips Arena before it was sold to WWE in spring 2001. Professional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is a non-competitive professional Sport, where all matches are scripted by the promotion's booking staff World Wrestling Entertainment Inc ( WWE) is a publicly traded privately controlled integrated media (focusing in Television, Internet, The arena was also host to the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Royal Rumble event in January 2002 and Backlash 2007 in April 2007, and has hosted several episodes of RAW and SmackDown!. World Wrestling Entertainment Inc ( WWE) is a publicly traded privately controlled integrated media (focusing in Television, Internet, Royal Rumble (2002 was the fifteenth annual Royal Rumble Professional wrestling Pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation Backlash (2007 was the ninth annual Backlash Professional wrestling Pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE This article is about the television program You may be looking for the 1994 video game or the 2002 video game WWE Raw is WWE Friday Night SmackDown is a Professional wrestling Television program for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE that is currently airing

Philips Arena in basketball setup

Philips Arena in hockey setup, viewed from section 303

It hosted the NBA All-Star Game in 2003. The National Basketball Association staged its first All-Star Game in the Boston Garden on March 2, 1951.

The venue had been named the site of the 2005 Southeastern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament; however, when the NHL announced in early 2004 that the 55th NHL All-Star Game, scheduled for February 2005 would be held in Atlanta, arena officials withdrew the Southeastern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament which was moved 140 miles northeast on Interstate 85 to the BI-LO Center in Greenville, South Carolina. The Southeastern Conference (SEC is a College Athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which operates in the southeastern The National Hockey League All-Star Game (Match des Étoiles de la Ligue Nationale de Hockey is an exhibition Ice hockey game that traditionally marks the midway The BI-LO Center is an Arena located in downtown Greenville, South Carolina that is used for Concerts It was once used for basketball and ice Greenville is a mid-sized city located in the upstate of South Carolina. Ironically, the arena would not even play host to that All-Star Game due to the 2004–05 NHL lockout. The 2004–05 NHL lockout resulted in the cancellation of what would have been the 88th season of the National Hockey League (NHL As a result, Atlanta became the second (San Jose being the first) city to lose an All-Star Game planned in advance because of a labor dispute. Philips Arena would later be announced as home to the 56th NHL All-Star Game in 2008. The 56th National Hockey League All-Star Game was held on January 27, 2008 at the Philips Arena in Atlanta Georgia, home

The DVD film for the tour Destiny Fulfilled ... And Lovin' It by Destiny's Child was filmed there. Destiny Fulfilled. And Lovin' It was a massive worldwide 2005 Concert tour by the reunited American female R&B trio Destiny's Child Destiny's Child (sometimes referred to as DC or DC3) was an R&B and pop Girl group comprising lead singer Beyoncé Knowles On September 12, 2006, Latin mega-star Shakira, performed one sold-out concert, part of her 2006-2007 World "Oral Fixation Tour". Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2 1977 known simply as Shakira Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Oral Fixation World Tour 2006/2007 (known as Tour Fijación Oral to Spanish-speaking countries was a Concert tour which began in June 2006 in support of

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The facility played host to the 2004 US Figure Skating Championships. The US Figure Skating Championships is an annual Figure skating competition organized by U

On March 14th 2008, an EF2 Tornado struck near Philips Arena. The Enhanced Fujita Scale, or EF Scale, is the scale for rating the strength of Tornadoes in the United States estimated via the damage they cause The arena only received minor exterior damage.

External links

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