The new food and drink options, overseen by concessionaire Aramark, include burger-and-fry standards, barbecue and healthier salads and bowls.
The concession stands were also overhauled, refaced with reclaimed lumber matching the dome's wooden motif, Bedier said, and outfitted with new electronic menu boards. "As prices rise for everything, particularly concert tickets, I wouldn't sleep at night knowing that somebody was paying over $100 to sit on a wooden bench," Bedier said.įans in the primo floor seats, who largely had to settle for using port-a-potties in the past, now have access to comparatively spiffy new bathrooms quadrupling the floor-level restroom capacity. of legroom and replacing the bygone benches in the upper level. Headlining the updates are new, wider seats throughout the arena, set to give showgoers an extra 6 in. 1 when Drake and ad-libbing trap lords Migos "skrt skrt" their way into the touched-up dome. But we'll take it."Īfter a summerlong closure for a roughly $30 million project, the South Sound arena reopened this month, just in time for a fall run of major concerts starting Nov. "I look pretty smart, right?" joked Kim Bedier, director of Tacoma Venues & Events, which manages the city-owned dome.
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With the Key out of commission for the next two years, fortunately or unfortunately (depending on your ZIP code), Tacoma Dome is poised to host the bulk of the arena-level stars coming to the region outside of the summer concert season. It wasn't exactly planned, but just as KeyArena closes in preparation for its $700 million overhaul, Tacoma Dome is reopening after much-needed updates of its own. SEATTLE (AP) - They say timing is everything. It also hosted the from 1991 to 1995, the from 1997 to 2002, the indoor soccer team of the from 1983 to 1992, and events during the 1990, and numerous other minor-league and teams.After a summerlong closure for a roughly $30 million project, the South Sound arena reopened this month, just in time for a fall run of major concerts starting Nov. It can host, albeit with seating reduced to 10,000.The dome's first event was a concert by British musician as part of his on August 11, 1983.It was ' home floor for the season while the Seattle Center Coliseum was renovated into, as well as various regular-season Sonics games during other seasons. Unlike most other arenas of its size, the arena contains little in the way of fixed seating, so as to maximize the flexibility of the seating arrangements and of the shape of the playing field. The in, is a larger-diameter at 536 feet (163 m), but is 143 feet (44 m) high and seats a maximum of 16,000.The wood used to make the roof came from trees that were downed in the.
The arena seats 20,722 for 530 feet (160 m) in diameter and 152 feet (46 m) in height, it is able to seat 23,000, and is the largest arena with a wooden dome in the world by volume. Contents.History Upon winning an international design competition, local architects McGranahan and Messenger completed the Tacoma Dome for $44 million it opened 37 years ago on April 21, 1983.
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