Amway Center
Amway Center in Orlando Downtown, Florida. It is an indoor arena which is the home for Magic of the NBA in Orlando, the Predators of the NAL in Orlando and the Solar Bears, ECHL in Orlando. It is situated in 400 West Church Street. It was established on 1st October, 2010. The construction cost is up to $577 million dollars. The project manager is Turner Construction. The service engineer is Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. The structural engineer is Walter P. Moore.
The NBA Game All-Star was held at Amway Center in 2012, and the ECHL All-Star Game was held there in 2015. In 2014 and 2017, it also hosted some Division I Men’s of NCAA Basketball Tournament games in the round of 64 and round of 32. The Football Board of Directors of Arena decided on January 14, 2013, that Orlando would host ArenaBowl XXVI in the summer, 2013. On December 19, 2015, it was the venue for UFC Cerrone 2 vs. dos Anjos on Fox.
Professional wrestling events, including the Royal Rumble of 2016 pay-per-view, have also been held at the venue. The campaign relocated to the Amway Center from August 21 to December 7, 2020, due to the COVID-19 epidemic. WWE’s shows were broadcast from the WWE ThunderDome, which was a behind-closed-doors set. Due to the start of the 2020–21 ECHL and NBA seasons, the promotion shifted to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Approvals
Prior to the approval of the Orlando Magic’s ownership, Downtown Master Plan 3 led by Bob Vander Weide and the billionaire Amway founder Richard DeVos, had been lobbying the city for nearly 10 years for an exciting arena. Amway Arena opened in 1989, long before the era of advanced technological entertainment in arenas. It swiftly became one of the league’s oldest arenas, thanks to the push to create new place in the sports or NBA in general.
Orange County Mayor Richard Crotty, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and the Orlando Magic mentioned an agreement about the exciting arena in Orlando downtown on September 29, 2006, after years of on-again, off-again negotiations. The new arena is situated at the corner of the southwest Hughey Avenue and Church Street. The arena cost up to $380 million, and $100 million for infrastructure and land, for up to $480 million (as of March 8, 2011, the arena was projected up to $10 million of the estimated cost). It has a $1.05 billion market plan that includes unique areas, a $375 million performing arts centre, and a $175 million Citrus Bowl expansion. It was dubbed the “Triple Crown for Downtown” when it was first unveiled in the media on 29th September.
Amway has the right of refusal for all the naming rights for the next venue as part of its naming rights to the old Amway Arena, which it exercised on 3rd August , 2009, when it announced a $40-million branding deal for 10 years to call the venue the Amway Center.
On December 1, 2007, the Magic and the City reached an agreement on approximately $8.5 million in compensation for three landowners near the arena’s proposed location. The arrangement was affirmed and the sale was completed after an eminent domain hearing.
