Miami Arena was an indoor arena located in Miami, Florida. The venue served as the home of the NBA's Miami Heat, and the NHL's Florida Panthers. From 1988 until 1999, it also was the indoor arena for the Miami Hurricanes.
Arena in Florida, United States
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Miami Arena being demolished, view from the west, taken September 24, 2008. The west wall was the last to fall, October 21, 2008.
Completed in 1988 at a cost of $52.5 million, its opening took business away from the Hollywood Sportatorium and eventually led to that venue's demolition. The arena was the home of the Miami Heat from 1988 to 1999, the Florida Panthers from 1993 to 1998, the University of Miami basketball teams from 1988 to 2003, the Miami Hooters of the Arena Football League from 1993 to 1995, the Miami Matadors of the ECHL in 1998 and the Miami Manatees of the WHA2 in 2003. The first game played by the Heat in their first home was a loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, 111–91, on November 5, 1988; the first victory came a month and a half later against the Utah Jazz, 101–80.
The arena also hosted the 1990 NBA All-Star Game, the 1991 WWF Royal Rumble, the 1994 NCAA men's basketball East Regional final, the NHL's 1996 Stanley Cup Finals between the Florida Panthers and Colorado Avalanche and the NBA's 1997 NBA Playoffs Eastern Conference Finals between the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls.
By 1998, the Miami Arena, like most indoor sports arenas built in the late 1980s, was beginning to show its age, despite being only 10 years old. Its seating capacity was one of the lowest of any NBA or NHL arena. In addition, sports teams in general began wanting newer, more updated facilities, specifically luxury suites and new concessions. On January 2, 2000, the Heat moved to the new FTX Arena (originally the American Airlines Arena) located three blocks east of Miami Arena on the shore of Biscayne Bay. Two years earlier, the Panthers had also left Miami Arena to play at what is now the FLA Live Arena (originally the National Car Rental Center) located in Sunrise, near Florida's largest outlet mall, Sawgrass Mills.
After the year 2000, the arena became mostly inactive, as most of the concerts that were held at Miami Arena moved to newer venues, including the BB&T Center, FTX Arena or the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood. However, the Miami Manatees of the WHA2 played at the Miami Arena in 2003, and the Miami Morays indoor football from 2005 to 2006.
The arena was easily accessible via mass transit, with a Metrorail stop at Historic Overtown/Lyric Theater station just across the street (once known as Overtown/Arena station). Miami-Dade city buses also service the arena area downtown. Miami Arena was sometimes called the "Pink Elephant", because it was a white elephant with pink colored walls.
In 2004, the arena was sold in a public auction to Glenn Straub, an investor from Palm Beach County, for half of the price the city of Miami paid for its original construction. On August 3, 2008, Straub announced in a television interview that the interior of the arena had been cleared out and that the building would be demolished by the end of the month. On September 21, 2008, the roof of the Miami Arena was imploded. While the exterior walls remained standing after the implosion, demolition continued until the falling of the west wall on October 21, 2008. A parking lot now exists where the arena used to stand.
Seating capacity
Basketball
1988–1993 – 15,008
1993–2008 – 15,200
Ice hockey/arena football
14,703
Concerts
Full house: 16,627
3/4 house: 9,878
1/2 house: 7,485
In the round: 16,694
the space in arena is 1,560
Other
Banquets – 500
Luxury suites – 26
Events
List of Events
Julio Iglesias – July 13, 1988 (Arena's opening concert)
Robert Plant – July 14, 1988, with Cheap Trick and October 23, 1990, with The Black Crowes
AC/DC – August 11, 1988, with White Lion, February 21, 1991, with King's X and January 21, 1996, with The Poor
Elton John – September 9–10, 1988, October 13–14, 1989, May 5, 1993 and May 4 and October 2, 1998
R.E.M. – April 29, 1989, with Drivin' N' Cryin' (Tracks from this show and from April 30th at Orlando Arena were broadcast on the radio) and September 8, 1995, with Radiohead
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – July 5, 1989, with The Replacements, October 22, 1991, with Chris Whitley and May 15 and 17, 1995, with Pete Droge
Jimmy Buffett & The Coral Reefer Band – August 5, 1989, with The Neville Brothers, January 24, 1991, with Greg "Fingers" Taylor & The Ladyfingers Revue and January 24, 1992, with Evangeline
Rush – February 22, 1990, with Mr. Big, February 28, 1992, with Primus and February 27, 1994, with Candlebox (Recording of "Show Don't Tell" from 1994 show was included on Different Stages)
Judas Priest – December 20, 1990, with Testament and Megadeth
INXS – January 22 and February 5, 1991
Sting – February 27, 1991 and February 23, 1994, with Melissa Etheridge
Gloria Estefan – March 1–2 and 6–7, 1991 and September 20–22 and 24, 1996 (Sept 20–21 gigs were filmed live on HBO Telecast, also released on VHS/DVD as The Evolution Tour: Live in Miami)
The 1996 Stanley Cup Finals – June 8 and 10–11 (Florida Panthers vs. Colorado Avalanche) To date, this is the only appearance the Panthers made in the Stanley Cup Finals. They got swept by the Avalanche, 4-0.
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