Scottrade Center

Scottrade Center
Former names	Kiel Center (1994–2000) Savvis Center (Aug 2000–2006)
Location	1401 Clark Avenue (honorary location: Brett Hull Way), St. Louis, Missouri 63103
Coordinates	38°37′36″N 90°12′9″W
Broke ground	December 14, 1992
Opened	October 8, 1994
Owner	City of St. Louis
Operator	Sports Capital Partners (parent of the St. Louis Blues)
Construction cost	$135 million ($212 million in 2012 dollars)
Architect	Ellerbe Becket(Kansas City)
Project Manager	J.S. Alberici Construction
Main contractors	DKW Construction, Inc.
Capacity	Ice hockey: 19,150 Wrestling: 21,151 Basketball: 21,000
Tenants
St. Louis Blues (NHL) (1994–present) Saint Louis Billikens (NCAA Division I) (1994–2008) St. Louis Steamers (MISL) (2004–2006) St. Louis Ambush (NPSL) (1994–2000) St. Louis Stampede (AFL) (1995–1996) St. Louis Vipers (RHI) (1993–1997, 1999) River City Rage (NIFL) (2006) Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament (NCAA)

Scottrade Center (originally Kiel Center and formerly Savvis Center) is a 19,150 seat arena located in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, opened in 1994. It is the home of the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League.

Besides ice hockey, the arena features a range of arena programming, including professional wrestling, concerts, ice shows, family shows, and other sporting events. It hosts approximately 175 events per year, drawing nearly two million guests annually. For the first quarter 2006, Scottrade Center ranked second among arenas in the United States and fourth worldwide in tickets sold. Industry trade publication Pollstar ranks Scottrade Center among the top ten arenas worldwide in tickets sold to non-team events.

The largest crowd to attend an event at the Scottrade Center was 22,612, which happened twice during the 2007 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, known as Arch Madness.

The arena is frequently selected by the NCAA for championship events, and played host to the NCAA Frozen Four Hockey Championships in April 2007, the NCAA Women’s Final Four Basketball Championships in 2009, and the NCAA Wrestling Championships in 2000, 2004, 2005, 2008, and 2009. It will host the NCAA Wrestling Championship again in 2012.

The building is operated by Sports Capital Partners, owner of the St. Louis Blues, under its chairman, Dave Checketts.

History

Kiel Center opened in 1994 to replace Kiel Auditorium, where the college basketball team had played, which was torn down in December 1992. The Blues had played in the St. Louis Arena prior to moving into Kiel Center in 1994. The building is currently known as Scottrade Center, after naming rights were sold in September 2006 to Scottrade (a local online investment firm and discount brokerage). The Kiel name still exists on the adjoining parking structure and the building cornerstone. Signs for the nearby MetroLink stop have been changed to read "Civic Center", since the building has been renamed three times in its short history.

The Opera House portion of the building was not razed when the original Auditorium was but remained closed since 1992, as members of Civic Progress, Inc., who promised to pay for the renovation of the Opera House, reneged on that promise, while opposing all outside efforts to achieve that renovation. In June 2009, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen voted 25-1 to subsidize the renovation and reopening of the Opera House under the direction of its new owners, Sports Capital Partners. The subsidies were funded by municipal bonds and state/federal historic tax credits. On July 12, 2010, it was announced that the name of the opera house would be changed to the Peabody Opera House, named after the company Peabody Energy. On October 1, 2011, the Peabody Opera House opened for the first time since the $79 million renovation. For more info see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Opera_House

Blues management decried its former naming-rights deal with tech company SAVVIS, as much of the compensation was in Savvis shares, then riding high. However, when the tech bubble burst, the team was left with nearly worthless shares.^{[citation needed]}

In September 2006, Scottrade founder Rodger O. Riney announced a partnership with the St. Louis Blues hockey club and arena. The new name of the arena, Scottrade Center, was revealed in a joint press conference. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but were described as "long-term and significant." Both Scottrade and the Blues said the agreement was "equitable" to both parties. Most of the signage and other promotions were changed to Scottrade Center prior to the first home game of the Blues on October 12, 2006.

In Fall 2006, an integrated LED scoring, video and advertising system from Daktronics in Brookings, South Dakota was installed in the arena, along with 1,075 feet (328 m) of 360-degree ribbon display technology. The centerhung display is made up of 12 different video displays and four 15 feet (4.6 m)-long ribbon displays.

Tenants

It is the home of the St. Louis Blues hockey franchise. A number of other events are scheduled throughout the year, such as concerts, ice shows, circuses and similar large gatherings.

Former tenants of Scottrade Center include the Saint Louis University Billikens NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball team, St. Louis Vipers roller hockey team, St. Louis Ambush and St. Louis Steamers indoor soccer teams, the St. Louis Stampede arena football team, and the River City Rage indoor football team.

Events

Sports

• Every March, starting in 1995, the Scottrade Center has hosted "Arch Madness", the men's basketball conference tournament for the Missouri Valley Conference.
• Hosts the annual "Braggin' Rights" men's college basketball game between the universities of Illinois and Missouri.
• The PBR has hosted a Built Ford Tough Series (formerly Bud Light Cup) event at this venue annually since 1997.
• 1997 Conference USA men's basketball tournament.
• Hosts the Mid-States Club Hockey Association Challenge Cup and Wickenheiser Cup finals for high school hockey teams in St. Louis
• 1998 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Midwest Regional
• Women's Final Four in 2001 and 2009
• Hosted the Cory Spinks vs. Zab Judah undisputed welterweight title fight in 2005.
• Hosted the 2006 State Farm U.S. Figure Skating Championships in January 2006, which was used as the primary means to select the United States Figure Skating team for the 2006 Winter Olympics.
• Scottrade Center hosted the 2007 Frozen Four college ice hockey tournament on April 5 and April 7, 2007.

Wrestling and MMA

• The arena has hosted multiple WWE events, most notably WWF Badd Blood: In Your House (which included the first ever Hell in a Cell), Survivor Series 1998 (which hosted the Deadly Game Tournament to crown a new WWE Champion - won by The Rock), No Mercy 2001, Judgment Day 2007, and Elimination Chamber 2010. It has hosted several editions of Monday Night Raw, including on February 19, 2001; April 22, 2002; March 17, 2003, which featured Stone Cold Steve Austin's penultimate wrestling match; June 6, 2005, when John Cena was drafted to Raw; April 17, 2006 (SuperShow); January 8, 2007; September 1, 2008 (SuperShow); February 2, 2009; and August 17, 2009, which featured the third & final reuniting of D-X. It hosted Raw again on March 14, 2011, with appearances from Snooki, Trish Stratus, and Jim Ross, as well as a video message from The Rock. It also hosted the emotional RAW is Owen on May 24, 1999 – a tribute edition of WWE's Monday Night RAW dedicated to the life of former wrestler Owen Hart, who died in an accident 24 hours before at the Over The Edge pay-per-view event in Kansas City, Missouri. It hosted the 25th Annual Royal Rumble on January 29th, 2012. Prior to that, it hosted a Smackdown/NXT taping on September 27, 2011. On July 23,2012 WWE will host the 1,000th episode of Raw SuperShow which will be a 3-hour show.

• NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in 2000, 2004, 2005, 2008 & 2009.
• MMA organization Strikeforce held their Strikeforce: Lawler vs. Shields event at the Scottrade Center June 6, 2009. The organization returned on May 15, 2010 with Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery.

Concerts

• Frank Sinatra - October 21, 1994 (his last ever concert stop to St. Louis, his last words to the crowd were, "I will see you again, I promise".)
• Nine Inch Nails - February 15, 1995, with The Melvins and October 14, 2005, with Queens of the Stone Age and Autolux
• Queensrÿche - April 30, 1995
• Page & Plant - May 6, 1995 and June 7, 1998
• The Red Hot Chili Peppers - March 18, 1996, May 7, 2003, with Queens of the Stone Age and The Mars Volta and January 15, 2007
• AC/DC - April 1, 1996, with The Poor, September 5, 2000, with Slash's Snakepit and January 13, 2009, with The Answer
• KISS - July 2, 1996, with Alice in Chains (AIC's last concert, with original lead vocalist Layne Staley) and April 15, 1997
• Garth Brooks - October 10-12, 1996
• Rush - October 31, 1996
• The Blues Traveler - November 15, 1996, with Phish
• Metallica - February 4, 1997, September 25, 2004, with Godsmack and November 17, 2008, with Down and The Sword
• Phil Collins - April 11, 1997
• Prince & The New Power Generation - June 27, 1997, November 28, 2000 and May 5, 2004
• Fleetwood Mac - November 17, 1997, August 15, 2003 and May 5, 2009
• Elton John - January 24, 1998, May 5, 2003, with Billy Joel and May 14, 2009, with Billy Joel
• The Family Values Tour - October 23, 1998 and October 10, 1999
• Alanis Morissette - March 14, 1999, with Garbage
• 'N Sync - April 2, 1999, with Divine and Tatyana Ali and June 28 and November 19, 2000, with Sisqó and P!nk
• David Lee Roth - July 13, 1999
• Cher - September 2, 1999, with Julio Iglesias, Jr. and Michael McDonald, July 15, 2002 and October 4, 2003
• Celine Dion - October 3, 1999 and February 4, 2009
• ZZ Top - October 29, 1999, with Lynyrd Skynyrd and July 29, 2007
• The Backstreet Boys - November 17, 1999
• TLC - November 28, 1999
• Ricky Martin - December 1, 1999
• Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - April 8, 2000, August 30, 2002, August 23, 2008 and October 25, 2009
• Korn - April 18, 2000 and July 20, 2002
• Tina Turner - May 21, 2000, with Lionel Richie
• Blink-182 - July 1, 2000, with Bad Religion
• Tim McGraw and Faith Hill - September 23, 2000, with The Warren Brothers and July 14, 2006
• The Dixie Chicks - October 27, 2000 and May 11, 2003, with Joan Osborne
• The Anger Management Tour - October 30, 2000
• Bon Jovi - November 24, 2000 and May 22, 2011
• Creed - December 6, 2000
• Matchbox 20 - March 21, 2001, with Everclear and Lifehouse
• Janet Jackson - July 15, 2001
• Eric Clapton - July 22, 2001 and September 18, 2006, with The Robert Cray Band
• Sade - September 5, 2001 and July 28, 2011, with John Legend
• Slipknot - October 13, 2001, with System of a Down, No One and American Head Charge and May 6, 2009, with DevilDriver and 3 Inches of Blood
• U2 - November 28, 2001, with Garbage and December 14, 2005, with Kanye West
• Vince Gill - December 4, 2001 and December 19, 2008, with Amy Grant
• Aerosmith - December 11, 2001, with Fuel
• Kid Rock - March 29, 2002, with Tenacious D
• Britney Spears - June 22, 2002
• Sheryl Crow - September 20, 2002, with Michelle Branch
• Ray Charles - September 27, 2002
• Paul McCartney - October 9, 2002
• American Idol Live! - November 5, 2002, August 17, 2003, September 19, 2004, August 9, 2005, August 13, 2006, August 9, 2007, July 18, 2008, August 29, 2009, August 25, 2010 and July 31, 2011
• Coldplay - February 3, 2003
• Pearl Jam - April 22, 2003, with Sparta and May 4, 2010, with The Band of Horses
• Avril Lavigne - May 9, 2003
• The Eagles - June 6, 2003 and September 20, 2008
• Styx - June 20, 2003, with Journey and REO Speedwagon
• Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake - July 5, 2003
• The Moody Blues - November 9, 2003, June 29, 2005 and July 17, 2007
• Shania Twain - November 28, 2003
• Bette Midler - December 15, 2003
• The Trans-Siberian Orchestra - December 19, 2003, November 26, 2004, December 23, 2005 (2 shows), December 27, 2006 (2 shows), December 9, 2007 (2 shows), November 28, 2008 (2 shows), December 12, 2009 (2 shows), December 30, 2010 (2 shows) and December 17, 2011 (2 shows)
• George Strait & The Ace in the Hole - January 23, 2004, with Dierks Bentley, February 17, 2006, with Tracy Lawrence and Miranda Lambert, February 18, 2010, with Reba McEntire and Lee Ann Womack and February 17, 2012, with Martina McBride
• Sarah Brightman - February 13, 2004
• Clay Aiken and Kelly Clarkson - March 21, 2004
• Rod Stewart - April 16, 2004 and May 1, 2007
• Simon & Garfunkel - June 26, 2004, with The Everly Brothers
• Josh Groban - July 18, 2004 and May 27, 2011, with Eric Lewis
• Van Halen - July 28–29, 2004, with Shinedown and April 26, 2008, with Ryan Shaw
• Jay-Z - October 23, 2004, with R. Kelly
• Dolly Parton - October 31, 2004, with The Grascals
• Scorpions - November 7, 2004
• The Rascal Flatts - January 27, 2005, with Keith Anderson and Blake Shelton
• The Honda Civic Tour - April 21, 2005
• Michael Bublé - May 12, 2005, March 5, 2008 and June 25, 2010, with Naturally 7
• Green Day - May 13, 2005, with My Chemical Romance and August 11, 2009, with Franz Ferdinand
• Destiny's Child - July 9, 2005
• Weezer - July 22, 2005
• Kenny Chesney - August 20, 2005, with Gretchen Wilson and Pat Green
• Keith Urban - December 2, 2005, with Nerina Pallot and Richard Winsland, June 28, 2007 and June 11, 2009, with Sugarland
• The Rolling Stones - January 27, 2006
• Nickelback - February 7, 2006 and April 23, 2010, with Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin and Sick Puppies
• Brad Paisley - March 24, 2006, with Sara Evans and Billy Currington
• Martina McBride - April 7 and December 8, 2006 and March 26, 2010, with Trace Adkins and Sarah Buxton
• James Blunt - October 25, 2006, with Starsailor
• High School Musical - January 22, 2007, with Jordan Pruitt
• Tool - June 22, 2007
• The Police - July 2, 2007, with Fiction Plane
• Beyoncé Knowles - July 8, 2007
• T.I. and Ciara - August 11, 2007
• Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus - October 17–18, 2007, January 15, 2008, with The Jonas Brothers and October 28, 2009, with Metro Station
• John Fogerty - November 30, 2007
• R. Kelly - January 6, 2008, with Keyshia Cole
• Chris Brown - January 31, 2008, with Bow Wow
• Santana - April 23, 2008, with The Salvador Santana Band
• Alicia Keys - April 27, 2008, with Jordin Sparks
• The Foo Fighters - July 20, 2008, with Supergrass and Year Long Disaster and September 17, 2011, with Rise Against and The Bronx
• Neil Diamond - August 29, September 10 and November 2, 2008
• Rock Band Live - October 19, 2008
• New Kids on the Block - November 10, 2008, with Lady Gaga and July 19, 2011, with The Backstreet Boys and Midnight Red
• The Cheetah Girls - December 7, 2008, with Clique Girlz
• Alan Jackson - March 27, 2009
• Taylor Swift - April 25, 2009, with Kellie Pickler and Gloriana and August 13-14, 2011, with Needtobreathe and Hunter Hayes
• The Jonas Brothers - July 28, 2009, with Honor Society, Jordin Sparks and Wonder Girls
• Kings of Leon - September 30, 2009
• John Mayer - March 20, 2010, with Michael Franti & Spearhead
• Maxwell and Jill Scott - May 29, 2010
• tobyMac - June 18, 2010, with Chris Tomlin
• James Taylor and Carole King - July 10, 2010
• Lady Gaga - July 17, 2010, with Semi Precious Weapons
• The Black Eyed Peas - August 14, 2010
• Alice in Chains - October 1, 2010, with Mastodon and The Deftones
• Roger Waters - October 29, 2010
• The Zac Brown Band - November 5, 2010
• Justin Bieber - November 8, 2010, with Jasmine Villegas
• Usher - November 26, 2010, with Miguel and Trey Songz
• Ozzy Osbourne - January 14, 2011
• Lil Wayne - April 10, 2011
• Arcade Fire - April 21, 2011
• Katy Perry - August 20, 2011, with Janelle Monáe and DJ Skeet Skeet
• Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - December 9, 2011

Other events

• The center has hosted Dare 2 Share, a Christian youth ministry conference, since 2006.
• Scottrade Center was host to a Youth Rally led by Pope John Paul II, on January 26, 1999. [1]

External links

• Scottrade Center Online

Events and tenants
Preceded by St. Louis Arena	Home of the St. Louis Blues 1994 – present	Succeeded by current
Preceded by Bradley Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin	Host of the Frozen Four 2007	Succeeded by Pepsi Center Denver, Colorado