Wachovia Center
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WACHOVIA CENTER
Wachovia Center Ownership: Comcast-Spectacor
Management Company: Global Spectrum
Website: comcast-spectacor.com
First 76ers Game at Wachovia Center: 76ers vs. Milwaukee (11/1/96)
Capacity (Basketball): 20,318
Premium Seating: 126 suites and 14 club boxes
Concession Stands: 30
Parking: Accommodations for 6,100 cars.
Amenities: Holt’s Cigar & Fine Wine Club, The Lexus Courtside Club, Victors Club
Largest 76ers Crowd: 21,305 vs. ChicagoChicago (4/17/1998)
Scoreboard: Wachovia Center boasts a new spectacular, high-tech, center-hung scoreboard. The state-of-the-art technology brings light emitting diode (LED) signage system to create incredible visual displays for all sporting events and attractions. Comcast-Spectacor hired ANC to design, construct, and install the new structure which features 12 LED video displays in between two circular LED ribbons. In all, the scoreboard delivers over 3200 square feet of active LED signage.
Major events:
• 1996 World Cup of Hockey
• 1997 Stanley Cup Finals
• 1998 U.S. Figure Skating Championships (Olympic Trials)
• 1999 AHL All-Star Classic
• 2000 NCAA Women’s Basketball Final Four
• 2000 Republican National Convention
• 2001 and 2002 X Games
• 2001 NCAA Men’s East Regionals
• 2001 NBA Finals
• 2002 NBA All-Star Weekend
• 2006 NCAA Men’s Basketball First & Second Round
• 2009 NCAA Men’s Basketball First & Second Round
• 2011 NCAA Wrestling Championships
Project Facts
Cost: $210 million
Ground Breaking: Sept. 14, 1994
Architects: Ellerbe Becket
Builders: L.F. Driscoll
Project Managers: Fox Management Company
'Details: 1,400 workers, 7,000 tons of steel, 19,000 cubic yards of concrete, 32,500 square feet of glass, 62,000 lineal feet of driven piles, 76,000 tiles, 400,000 square feet of dry wall
Naming Rights
• CoreStates Center, Sept. 14, 1994 to Sept. 1, 1998
• First Union Center, Sept. 1, 1998 to July 28, 2003
• Wachovia Center, July 28, 2003 to present
