6-595: Pacific Sports Center is a 52,000-square-foot (4,800 m) multi-purpose arena , in Tacoma, Washington . It served as the home turf for the Tacoma Stars of the Professional Arena Soccer League prior to 2014. Between the 2011–12 and 2012–13 seasons , former Tacoma Stars team owner Marian Bowers completed construction on a new multi-sport facility to replace the team's former home,
12-528: A multitude of spectators. The word derives from Latin harena , a particularly fine-grained sand that covered the floor of ancient arenas such as the Colosseum in Rome , Italy, to absorb blood. The term arena is sometimes used as a synonym for a very large venue such as Pasadena's Rose Bowl , but such a facility is typically called a stadium . The use of one term over the other has mostly to do with
18-421: Is a large enclosed platform, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre , musical performances , and/or sporting events . It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators, and may be covered by a roof. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the lowest point, allowing maximum visibility. Arenas are usually designed to accommodate
24-734: The Tacoma Soccer Center. Limited space for parking and the need for costly repairs led Bowers to build the new 52,000 square feet (4,800 m) Pacific Sports Center on Tacoma's south side. The privately funded complex seats up to 1,200 spectators, includes 200 parking spaces, and cost approximately $ 4.2 million to construct. The center opened to the public in April 2012 with an event featuring free soccer and lacrosse clinics, facility tours, refreshments, appearances by past Tacoma Stars players, and an "official first kick" by Joe Lonergan, then Deputy Mayor of Tacoma. Arena An arena
30-464: The facility is called Cameron Indoor Stadium . Domed stadiums, which, like arenas, are enclosed but have the larger playing surfaces and seating capacities found in stadiums, are generally not referred to as arenas in North America. There is also the sport of indoor American football (one variant of which is explicitly known as arena football), a variant of the outdoor game that is designed for
36-538: The type of event. Football (be it association , rugby , gridiron , Australian rules , or Gaelic ) is typically played in a stadium, while basketball , volleyball , handball , and ice hockey are typically played in an arena, although many of the larger arenas hold more spectators than do the stadiums of smaller colleges or high schools. There are exceptions. The home of the Duke University men's and women's basketball teams would qualify as an arena, but
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