Reed Arena
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| Location | 730 Olsen Boulevard College Station, Texas 77843 |
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| Coordinates | 30°36′21″N 96°20′46″W / 30.60578°N 96.34619°WCoordinates: 30°36′21″N 96°20′46″W / 30.60578°N 96.34619°W |
| Owner | Texas A&M University |
| Operator | Texas A&M University |
| Capacity | 12,989 |
| Surface | Hardwood |
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| Broke ground | September 16, 1995 |
| Opened | November 22, 1998 |
| Construction cost | $36.7 Million ($53.9 million in 2017 dollars) |
| Architect | Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, Inc. |
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Walter P Moore D.Y. Davis Associates, Inc. |
| Services engineer | Kalmans Marshall Engineering, Inc. |
| General contractor | Huber, Hunt & Nichols, Inc. |
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| (NCAA) (1998–present) Texas A&M Aggies volleyball (NCAA) (2009–present) |
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Reed Arena is a sports arena and entertainment venue located at the corner of Olsen Boulevard and Kimbrough Boulevard in College Station, Texas. This facility is used for Texas A&M University basketball games and commencement ceremonies, concerts, trade shows, family entertainment, and Texas A&M student programs, including the on-campus Aggie Muster. The building replaced the G. Rollie White Coliseum, and is named for Dr. & Mrs. Chester J. Reed, a 1947 A&M graduate whose donations made the new arena possible.
In 2005, Reed Arena served as the site of men's and women's first round NIT games, as the men played Clemson and the women played Tulsa.
In recent years, Reed Arena has gained a reputation as one of the most hostile arenas in the nation, coinciding with the men's and women's Aggie basketball teams rise to national prominence. This is partly due to a group of students calling themselves the Reed Rowdies, which have been instrumental in helping to create an energetic fan atmosphere during basketball games similar to that of football games at Kyle Field.
Reed Arena first opened its doors in 1998 as a member of Texas A&M Special Event Facilities. The arena was named after its primary donor Chester Reed, Texas A&M Class of 1947. The building hosts many official functions for Texas A&M University. With enough indoor seating capacity for 12,500 guests, the arena makes an ideal location for the university's graduation ceremonies, freshmen convocation, and Aggie Muster ceremonies. The main purpose behind building the arena was to house the Texas A&M's men's and women's basketball teams However, unlike all the other athletic facilities on campus, Reed Arena operates under the Department of Finance, not the Athletic Department.
While in the planning stages, Chester Reed donated an operations endowment to help run the building during its first five years. However, due to initial over-estimating of revenue and budget shortfalls during construction, this endowment was unable to make the arena become self-sufficient. For all of these reasons mentioned above, Reed Arena cannot just focus on basketball and other university events. As a necessary function, the Arena has developed pipelines of support from a multitude of different stakeholders and events that operate both within the local community and internationally. In its many years of operation, Reed Arena has hosted a wide variety of famous performers including Bill Cosby, Garth Brooks, The Dixie Chicks, as well as the performers of World Wrestling Entertainment, Cirque du Soleil, and Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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