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General Motors Place
GM Place, The Garage
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Location800 Griffiths Way
Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 6G1
OwnerCanucks Sports and Entertainment
OperatorCanucks Sports and Entertainment
CapacityHockey: 18,630
Basketball: 19,193
Concert: 14,000
Construction
Opened1995
Construction costC$160 million
ArchitectBrisbin, Brook and Beynon
Tenants
Vancouver Canucks (NHL) (1995-present)
Vancouver Grizzlies (NBA) (1995-2001)
Vancouver Ravens (NLL) (2001-2004)
Vancouver Voodoo (RHI) (1996)
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General Motors Place (nicknamed The Garage and GM Place), sponsored by General Motors Canada, is an indoor arena at 800 Griffiths Way in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Completed in 1995 at a cost of C$160 million in private financing, the arena is home to the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL, and was formerly home to the Vancouver Grizzlies of the NBA and the Vancouver Ravens of the NLL. The Grizzlies have since moved to Memphis, and the Ravens have become defunct for the time being. The arena seats 18,630 for ice hockey and 19,193 for basketball. It has 88 luxury suites, 12 hospitality suites, and 2,195 club seats. The arena replaced the Pacific Coliseum as the main venue for events in Vancouver.

As corporate sponsors are unable to brand sporting venues during the Olympics, GM Place will be renamed Canada Hockey Place during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, in February 2010.[1]

Entertainment upgrades

In mid-2006 GM Place was upgraded with a ProAd LED ribbon board encircling the upper bowl and shortly thereafter with a $5 million Daktronics ProStar LED scoreboard. The original Mitsubishi Mark IV displays needed to be removed since the worldwide supply of replacement parts was not large enough to keep them operating throughout the 2006-2007 hockey season.

The new LED scoreboard is built around four of the largest video displays in the NHL. Measuring 13.5 feet by 24 feet they are capable of displaying widescreen images in 14-bit colours. Their size combined with their 10 mm pixel spacing gives them an image that is unrivaled in any NHL arena. The corners hold 5.5-foot by 13.5-foot displays with two ring displays each capping the top and bottom. The entire scoreboard weighs 49,000 lbs, 2% less than the one it replaced.[2][3]The normally three-week assembly period was completed in only one week and as a result there were some minor technical difficulties during the first home game.

Proposed Additions

There are plans in the works to adjoin a 22 storey, 312,000 square foot office tower to the stadium. [2] This building will be energy efficient, environmentally sustainable, and will accommodate much-needed office space in downtown Vancouver - the vacancy rate downtown is at an all-time low of 3.5%. The plan is to have the concourse of the stadium to directly join to the lobby of the tower. Also, the extra concourse space will accommodate more fan-oriented areas to have a meal, to mingle, or to buy merchandise.

Past major events

Future major events

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  • GM Place will host the ice hockey events in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. These will be the first Olympic games to use NHL sized ice. This decision was made in order to maximize the potential crowds and revenue, instead of building a smaller, temporary venue with the international-size ice surface, as has been done for most other Winter Games.

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to General Motors Place.
  1. ^ Vancouver 2010
  2. ^ a b "Canucks Insider". Canucks.com. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accessdaymonth= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help) Cite error: The named reference "Canucks.com" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Canucks Insider". Canucks.com. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accessdaymonth= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
Preceded by
first arena
 Home of the
Vancouver Grizzlies
1995 – 2001 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Home of the
Vancouver Canucks
1995 – present 		Succeeded by
current
Preceded by Home of the
Vancouver Voodoo
1996 – 		Succeeded by
last arena
Preceded by Host of the
NHL All-Star Game
1998 		Succeeded by

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