BATON ROUGE RIVER CENTER

(Redirected from Riverside Centroplex)

The 'Baton Rouge River Center' (when built in the early 1980s, it was called the 'Riverside Centroplex') is a municipally owned multi-purpose 200,000 square feet (20,000 m²) entertainment facility located on the Mississippi River in downtown Baton Rouge, the capital city of Louisiana.
It is maintained by a private management company, SMG, which presents more than five hundred events a year, including concerts, conventions, sporting events, trade shows and theater productions.

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Performance and other facilities
Events held
External links

Performance and other facilities



★ 'Arena' presents concerts, trade shows, sports and family shows, with seating for up to 12,000 for concerts, 8500 for sporting events, and 4500 for theatre events.

★ 'Exhibition Hall', currently being expanded with an additional 10,000 sq ft (1,000 m²). of exhibition space and providing a total of 70,000 square feet (7,000 m²). This can be combined with the Arena to create more than 100,000 square feet (10,000 m²) of contiguous exhibit space.

★ 'Grand Ballroom' provides 26,150 square feet (2,429 m²) of multi-purpose space.

★ 'Theater for Performing Arts' is a theatre seating up to 1,900 people. It is used for performances of theatre, musicals, and symphony orchestras.

Events held


Former Riverside Centroplex logo

Past events held in the Riverside Centroplex arena include:

WCW Slamboree (May 19, 1996)

ECHL Baton Rouge Kingfish (1996-2003)

IPFL Louisiana Bayou Beast (1999)

WCW house show (non-televised) (May 30, 1999)

WCW Thunder (October 14, 1999)

af2 Baton Rouge Blaze (2001)

WWE Raw (October 1, 2001)

ECW house show (non-televised) (October 08, 2006)

WWE Raw house show (June 30, 2007)
Past events held in the Riverside Centroplex theatre:

Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) house show (May 29, 1998 & October 7, 1999)

External links



Baton Rouge River Center homepage

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