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![]() PPG Paints Arena in 2017 | |
Former names | Consol Energy Center (2010–2016) |
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Address | 1001 Fifth Avenue |
Location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Coordinates | 40°26′22″N 79°59′21″W / 40.43944°N 79.98917°W |
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Owner | Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County |
Operator | Anschutz Entertainment Group |
Capacity | Ice hockey: 18,187 Basketball: 19,000 Arena football: 16,280 End stage: 14,536 Center stage: 19,758[1] |
Field size | 720,000 sq ft (67,000 m2) |
Surface | Multi-surface (ice) |
Scoreboard | Mitsubishi 15' × 25' "Black-Packaged LED" |
Construction | |
Broke ground | August 14, 2008 |
Built | August 2008 – August 2010 |
Opened | August 18, 2010 |
Construction cost | US$321 million ($454 million in 2023 dollars)[2] |
Architect | Populous (formerly HOK Sport)[3] Astorino[4] Architectural Innovations[4] Fukui Architects[4] Lami Grubb[4] |
Project manager | ICON Venue Group[5] |
Structural engineer | Thornton Tomasetti/Raudenbush |
Services engineer | M-E Engineers, Inc. |
General contractor | Hunt Construction Group[6] |
Main contractors | Oxford Development Pittsburgh Arena Development, LP |
Tenants | |
Pittsburgh Penguins (NHL) (2010–present) Pittsburgh Power (AFL) (2011–2014) | |
Website | |
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PPG Paints Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Pittsburgh that serves as the home of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). It previously was the home of the Pittsburgh Power of the Arena Football League (AFL) from 2011 to 2014.
Construction was completed on August 1, 2010,[7] and the arena opened in time for the 2010–11 NHL season.[8] It replaced the Penguins' former arena, Civic Arena (formerly known as Mellon Arena), which was completed in 1961. A ceremonial ground-breaking was held on August 14, 2008. The arena is the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold-certified arena in both the NHL and AFL.[9] Soon after the arena opened in 2010 it was named "Best New Major Concert Venue" in the Pollstar Concert Industry Awards and "Best NHL Arena" in the Sports Business Journal reader poll.[10][11] The arena was originally named Consol Energy Center (CEC) after Consol Energy purchased the naming rights in December 2008. The current name comes from Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries, who purchased naming rights in October 2016.[12][13]
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