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Consol Energy Center will cost $321 million to build with completion set for Fall 2010. The owner is the Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. The 720,000 square foot building has six levels and occupies an 8 acre site. The new center will have a full service restaurant and seat 18,087 spectators for hockey games. Premium spaces include 62 Suites and 4 Party Suites, 236 Loge Box seats and 2,000 club seats.
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| LOOKING BACK The new all-purpose arena will replace Mellon Arena, the oldest hockey venue in the National Hockey League, at age 47. Due to its domed shape, the arena was affectionately called "The Igloo" by local hockey fans. It was home to back-to-back Stanley Cups in the early 90's, and has hosted hundreds of events ranging from monster truck jams to world class concerts, WWF and of course, circus performers. |
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| Originally known as the Civic Arena, this domed structure was state of the art when it opened in 1961, with some calling it the 8th Wonder of the World due to a mechanical stainless steel roof that opened for fair weather events. Attending a concert there, and seeing that dome open to starry night skies, was in itself the memory of a lifetime. Just like Pittsburgh's former Three Rivers Stadium, many fond Pittsburgh memories will linger once The Igloo is finally gone. |
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Groundbreaking - August 14, 2008 |
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Hockey - 18,387 |
Address - 1001 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh,
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First 'LEED gold-certified' National Hockey League arena |
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21-year naming rights w/ CONSOL Energy estimated at $104 million |
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DESTINY |
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CONSOL ENERGY
CENTER |
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Upper Centre Avenue
entrance |
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WELCOME TO
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49 year old Mellon
Arena-Civic Arena "Igloo" |
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Lower Centre Avenue
entrance |
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American Eagle Gate at the
corner |
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Epiphany Catholic Church beyond
glass wall |
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September 19,
2010 |
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LEMIEUX from everyone
in Pittsburgh!!! |
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STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS |
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Center ice at
Consol Energy Center |
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New Zamboni with Iceburgh #00 |
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Lower Concourse |
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Interactive displays with Stanley
Cups |
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Interactive
displays on Penguins players |
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Fun stuff for kids |
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WALL OF CHAMPIONS |
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First regular
season game October 7, 2010 |
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Looking up Centre
Avenue |
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Looking across the
Civic Arena parking lot |
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Between the new
arena and parking garage |
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Box Office and American Eagle Gate
at the corner of 5th Ave & Washington Place |
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Looking up Centre
Avenue |
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Centre Avenue side
of parking garage |
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Looking toward
Duquesne University |
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Downtown
Pittsburgh in the background |
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Corner of
Washington Place and 5th Avenue |
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Looking at Consol Energy Center
from 5th Avenue |
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Epiphany Catholic Church |
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Looking across Centre Ave from the
Mellon Arena parking lot |
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Epiphany Catholic Church on the right |
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Centre Avenue side facing the
Mellon Arena |
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Looking across Centre Ave from the
Mellon Arena parking lot |
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Looking at Consol Energy Center
from 5th Avenue |
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| Looking up the
side toward 5th Avenue |
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| Corner of
Washington Place and 5th Avenue |
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| 'CHANGING
SHAPE' by Gregory Anderson 2009 Art Project sign on Washington Place fence |
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| Artwork adds
color to construction fences |
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Consol Energy
Center on the Washington Place side |
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Epiphany Catholic Church on the right |
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Centre Avenue side looking toward
Pittsburgh |
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Photo of Consol Energy Center from
5th Avenue |
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Corner of 5th
Avenue and Washington Place |
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Epiphany Catholic Church on the left |
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5th Avenue side
of Consol Energy Center |
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| Consol Energy
Center with Epiphany Catholic Church on the right |
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Say Hello to an Old
Friend |
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Looking down from
the Centre Avenue side |
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| IT'S A HOCKEY
NIGHT IN PITTSBURGH IRONWORKERS LOCAL #3 |
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Cranes finishing
the ironwork |
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Mellon Arena in
background |
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Brick on the 5th
Avenue side |
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5th Ave at
Washington Place intersection |
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| Looking through
the new iron work of Consol Energy Center at Mellon Arena from the 5th Avenue side |
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| Centre Avenue
side of the Pittsburgh Penguins' new home looking toward Duquesne University |
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| Construction
billboard in front of the new Consol Energy Center |
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Epiphany Catholic Church on the right |
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View from further
up Centre Ave |
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Looking through
I-beams toward downtown |
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Washington Place
near 5th Ave intersection |
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| Something old,
something new... |
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borrowed, something blue |
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Visits since January 24, 2010
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| Pittsburgh Penguins homepage |
| Photos of Penguins hockey practice |
| Allegheny County information |
| Steelers Practice at Latrobe Stadium |
| Photos of the Pittsburgh Three Rivers Regatta |
| Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County |
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