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The DeltaPlex Arena & Conference Center (formerly the Stadium Arena and Grand Rapids Stadium) was a 5,500-seat multipurpose arena in Walker, Michigan, United States. It was the home of the Grand Rapids Gold of the NBA G League and the Grand Rapids Wanderers of the Major Arena Soccer League 3. Built in 1952 as The Stadium Arena, the facility was ...
The first public game for Grand Raggidy was held in April 2006 with over 2,000 fans in attendance at the DeltaPlex Arena. [4] Since as far back as 2009, Grand Raggidy has held its home games at Rivertown Sports, with exceptions in 2013 when the venue was flood-damaged. [5] Four of the league's skaters appeared as themselves in the movie Whip It!
The DeltaPlex Arena was an event arena within Walker and was home to the Grand Rapids Gold of the NBA G League, which is an affiliate of the Denver Nuggets. The Delta Plex closed and is now mixed use commercial facility and the Grand Rapids Gold play home games at the Van Andel Arena [22]
The West Michigan ThunderHawks were an indoor football team based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.The team was most recently a member of the Indoor Football League.From their inception in 2007 until 2009, the ThunderHawks were known as the Muskegon Thunder and played at L.C. Walker Arena (in their first two seasons they played in the Continental Indoor Football League).
Iowa Events Center: Mike Pence [3] Friday, December 9, 2016 Baton Rouge: LA: Dow Chemical Hangar, Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport: Jeff Landry, Bodi White, Billy Nungesser, Ralph Abraham, Garret Graves, Phil Bryant, David Vitter, Clay Higgins, John Kennedy [4] Grand Rapids: MI: DeltaPlex Arena: Ronna McDaniel, Bill Huizenga, Betsy DeVos [5 ...
The Grand Rapids Flight at one time held the record for most points scored in a single game, after a 179–146 drubbing of the Des Moines Heat. The Flight made international news in 2007 by signing 7-foot-9-inch (236 cm) basketball player Sun Mingming , still known as the tallest athlete in the world.
An 1868 pictorial map of Grand Rapids. By 1838, the settlement incorporated as a village, and encompassed approximately .75 square miles (1.9 km 2). [18] An outcropping of gypsum, where Plaster Creek enters the Grand River, was known to the Native American inhabitants of the area. Pioneer geologist Douglass Houghton commented on this find in 1838.
DeVos Place Convention Center, erected on the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a multi-purpose convention center. It is named for Richard DeVos, who donated $20 million towards its construction. The convention center contains a large, 162,000 square foot exhibit hall and an additional 40,000 square foot ballroom. [1]