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The construction of State Farm Center, originally known as the Assembly Hall, at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign consisted of building a huge indoor arena with a 400-foot-diameter (120 m) concrete dome whose center height is 125 feet (38 m) above the center floor, and which weighs 10 million pounds. [1]
The anticipated renovation cost was between $150 and $160 million, and construction would not start before spring of 2014. [9] As part of the renovations, State Farm Insurance purchased the naming rights to the arena for $60 million over 30 years. [10] The State Farm Center began renovations after the 2013–14 men's basketball season.
State Farm Arena after renovations during a 2019 Hawks game vs the Chicago Bulls Shortly after acquiring the Hawks and the operating rights to Philips Arena on June 24, 2015, Tony Ressler announced his intentions of remodeling the arena to keep the Hawks in Downtown Atlanta at a cost between $150 million and $250 million.
The State Farm jingle ("Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there") was written by American singer-songwriter Barry Manilow in 1971. A cover was released by Weezer in 2011. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] State Farm's first commercial jingle was created for The Jack Benny Program in the 1960s.
From the 2022 season, the Allianz Arena in Germany has hosted the Munich Games of the NFL International series. The majority of current NFL stadiums have sold naming rights to corporations. Only 3 of the league's 30 stadiums — Arrowhead Stadium, Lambeau Field, and Soldier Field — do not currently use a corporate-sponsored name.
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This is a list of seating capacities for sports and entertainment arenas in the United States with at least 1,000 seats. The list is composed mostly of arenas that house sports teams (basketball, ice hockey, arena soccer and arena football) and serve as indoor venues for concerts and expositions.
Construction cost $455 million [4] ($688 million in 2023 ... State Farm Stadium is a multi-purpose retractable roof ... and is adjacent to Desert Diamond Arena, ...