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ShoWare Center, originally going to be Kent Events Center is a 6,500-seat, multi-purpose arena in Kent, Washington, United States. The construction of the arena was completed on January 2, 2009. Its principal tenants are the Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League, Tacoma Stars of the Major Arena Soccer League, and the Seattle Mist of the Legends Football League. Naming rights to the arena were initially sold to Amiga, Inc. and the arena was to be called "The Amiga Center at Kent". However, Amiga failed to make a promised down payment, and lost the naming rights as of August 2007. In November 2008 the Kent City Council announced that the city had sold the naming rights to the Fresno, California-based VisionOne, Inc., an e-business software developer which in turn named the arena after ShoWare, its flagship box office operations program. The arena is managed and operated by Philadelphia-based SMG. The design architect is LMN Architects of Seattle, in association with PBK Architects of Vancouver, British Columbia. Among other events, it has hosted the 2012 edition of Skate America. ==Facts and Milestones== *Approximate square footage: *Scoreboard: The “Chandelier” scoreboard with four 6’ x 12’ video screens.〔http://www.showarecenter.com/venue/venue_overview〕 *Opening: January 3, 2009 (Seattle Thunderbirds 4 vs. Everett Silvertips 3) *Seating: Multi-use facility with seating capacity of 6,100 including a 6,500-seat ice arena for Thunderbird home games. Retractable seating to provide additional space for concerts, basketball, shows and other events. *Usage: Studies indicate that the center will host approximately 110 to 117 events annually, including about 40 Thunderbird games. *First Event: Brenden Silvester of the Seattle Thunderbirds scored the first goal in the history of the ShoWare Center in the 2nd period on January 3, 2009 against the Everett Silvertips in a 4-3 Seattle win. *First Hat-Trick: Greg Scott of the Seattle Thunderbirds scored the first hat trick in the ShoWare Center on February 6, 2009 *First Non Hockey Events: January 30, 2009, Kent-Meridian, Kentlake, Kentwood, and Kentridge's boys and girls high school basketball teams played an evening long event at ShoWare Center. *Hockey attendance record of 6,158 set in Jan, 31 2011 against the Portland Winterhawks. *In November 2011, the Showare Center hosted a house show of the TNA Wrestling promotion. *Country band Florida Georgia Line draws 7,129 people. *2 millionth guest at ShoWare on November 11, 2014. *The 2014-2015 hockey season reached an all time attendance record with an average of 4,507 people per game.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=http://www.hockeydb.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ShoWare Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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