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Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (commonly known as Dr. Phillips Center) is a performing arts center in Downtown Orlando, Florida, United States. It joined the Bob Carr Theater, which originally opened as the Orlando Municipal Auditorium in 1927, [1] to become Orlando's main performance venue. The center's grand opening was held on ...
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]
Yuanlin Performance Hall: Performance Hall 1,080 Theater 300 Chiayi: Chiayi Cultural Center Concert Hall 1997 1,030 Chiayi Wind Orchestra Zhongzhen Park Music Stage 600 Performing Arts Center: Performance Hall 972 Hsinchu: Hsinchu City Cultural Center Concert Hall: 1,500
Prior to Downtown Master Plan 3, the Orlando Magic's ownership, led by billionaire Amway founder Richard DeVos and son-in-law Bob Vander Weide, had been pressing the City of Orlando for a new arena for nearly ten years. Amway Arena was built in 1989, prior to the recent era of technologically advanced entertainment arenas. With the rush to ...
The complex is located on the south end of International Drive, a major tourist area in Orlando. The original building (the "West Concourse") housed an 11,300-seat arena from 1983 to 1992. It hosted concerts by popular artists including Madonna, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Styx, Aerosmith, Mötley Crüe, and Hall and Oates.
Orlando Arena's original logo. The city of Orlando wanted a downtown arena long before there was talk of an NBA franchise. The arena site on West Livingston Street was approved in December 1983, at a time when concerts and other large-scale events were held at the Orange County Convention Center, which is several miles away from downtown. [4]
The WWE Performance Center in Orlando temporarily became the home arena for WWE's Raw and SmackDown brands in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with its television programs Monday Night Raw, Friday Night Smackdown, Evolve, and Main Event, as well as WWE pay-per-view events (including WrestleMania 36) being recorded in a studio at the WWE ...
RDV Sports, Inc. is a Michigan based corporation set up by Richard DeVos to purchase the NBA franchise, the Orlando Magic. [1] Established in 1991, its assets have included the Orlando Miracle WNBA team, Orlando Solar Bears of the ECHL and the RDV Sportsplex.