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Hammons Field is a minor league baseball stadium located in Springfield, Missouri, with a capacity of 7,986 plus approximately 2,500 general admission seating. The facility, funded entirely by local businessman, hotel mogul and benefactor John Q. Hammons, is the centerpiece of the midtown development project, Jordan Valley Park, on the corner of Sherman Avenue and Trafficway Boulevard.
The arena bears the initials of John Q. Hammons, a Springfield-based hotel developer and Missouri State alumnus who donated $30 million for the arena's construction. [5] JQH Arena replaced the Hammons Student Center (also named in honor of its major donor) in terms of function and is connected with the Hammons Student Center via an underground ...
Artists Angel Ware of Springfield, left, and Tori Kolanowski, also of Springfield, stand with some of their and others' art at the underground Artist exhibit at the African American History Museum ...
Springfield serves as the center of the Springfield media market, the 75th largest media market in the country ranked amongst Omaha, Nebraska and Rochester, New York. [10] There are nearly 430,000 television owning homes and a total population of 1,065,000 people. [11]
The Phoenix Center has opened a new east-side public health center with plans for a north-end location allowing the LGBTQ community center to expand its services to underserved communities in ...
O'Reilly Family Event Center celebrated its grand opening on October 1, 2010, which included a concert by Springfield-based The M-Dock Band. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] October 8, 2010 marked the first intercollegiate matchup at O'Reilly as the Drury volleyball team played Missouri S&T ; the Panthers lost 3–1.
The John Q. Hammons Student Center is an 8,846-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. It was built in 1976 and is the home of the Missouri State Bears. [1] The arena was replaced by the Great Southern Bank Arena in 2008.