BATON ROUGE RIVER CENTER
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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.
★ '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.
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)
★ Baton Rouge River Center homepage
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.
| Contents |
| 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
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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