Canada Hockey Place
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Rogers Arena in 2011
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| Former names | General Motors Place (1995–2010) Canada Hockey Place (February 2010) |
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| Address | 800 Griffiths Way |
| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Coordinates | 49°16′40″N 123°6′32″W / 49.27778°N 123.10889°WCoordinates: 49°16′40″N 123°6′32″W / 49.27778°N 123.10889°W |
| Public transit | Stadium–Chinatown |
| Owner | Canucks Sports & Entertainment |
| Operator | Canucks Sports & Entertainment |
| Capacity |
Ice hockey: 18,422 (1995–2002) 18,514 (2002–2003) 18,630 (2003–2009) 18,810 (2009–2010) 18,860 (2010–2011) 18,890 (2011–2012) 18,910 (2012–present) Basketball: 19,193 (1995–2003) 19,700 (2003–present) Concert: 19,000 |
| Field size | 475,000 square feet (44,100 m2) |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | July 13, 1993 |
| Opened | September 21, 1995 |
| Construction cost |
C$160 million ($235 million in 2016 dollars) |
| Architect | Brisbin, Brook and Beynon |
| Structural engineer | Stuart Olson Dominion |
| Services engineer | The Mitchell Partnership Inc. |
| General contractor | Huber, Hunt & Nichols/Dominion Construction Joint Venture |
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Vancouver Canucks (NHL) (1995–present) Vancouver Grizzlies (NBA) (1995–2001) Vancouver Ravens (NLL) (2001–2004) Vancouver Voodoo (RHI) (1996) |
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Rogers Arena is an indoor sports arena located at 800 Griffiths Way in the downtown area of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Opened in 1995, the arena was known as General Motors Place (GM Place) from its opening until July 6, 2010, when General Motors Canada ended its naming rights sponsorship and a new agreement for those rights was reached with Rogers Communications. Rogers Arena was built to replace Pacific Coliseum as Vancouver's primary indoor sports facility and in part due to the National Basketball Association's 1995 expansion into Canada, when Vancouver and Toronto were given expansion teams.
It is home to the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League and hosted the ice hockey events at the 2010 Winter Olympics. The name of the arena temporarily became Canada Hockey Place during the Olympics. It was previously home to the Vancouver Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association from 1995 to 2001.
The arena was completed in 1995 at a cost of C$160 million in private financing to replace the aging Pacific Coliseum as the main venue for events in Vancouver and to serve as the home arena to the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League and the Vancouver Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association. The Grizzlies spent six seasons in Vancouver before relocating to Memphis, Tennessee, for the 2001–02 season.
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