North Charleston Coliseum
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| North Charleston Coliseum | |
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| "Casa del Ray" "Hockeyharbor, USA" | |
| Location | 5001 Coliseum Drive North Charleston, SC 29404 |
| Opened | 1999 |
| Closed | open |
| Demolished | N/A |
| Owner | Ogden Entertainment |
| Tenants | Charleston Lowgators (NBA D-League) (2001-2004)
South Carolina Stingrays (ECHL) (1993-present) |
| Capacity | 14,000 (Floor Events) 13,600 (Basketball) 10,568 (Hockey) (football) |
The North Charleston Coliseum is a 14,000-seat multi-purpose arena in North Charleston, South Carolina, part of the North Charleston Coliseum, Performing Arts Center, and Convention Center complex built in 1993 (the Performing Arts Center and Convention Center opened in 1999) located on the access road to Charleston International Airport.
It is home to the South Carolina Stingrays Ice hockey team and the Carolina Sandsharks indoor football team with a capacity of 10,568 for these two sports, and has been the home of larger basketball matches with the College of Charleston and Charleston Southern University, and has been the site of the Big South Conference (1993-94) and Southern Conference basketball tournaments. It also hosted WCW Uncensored in 1997.
Steve Barlstein, then a sports anchor at WCIV, referred to the venue as the Casa del Ray, as did his backup, Dean Stephens, now the WCIV news anchor. Stingrays fans will be launching an unofficial campaign for "Hockeyharbor, USA" in the upcoming season.
The arena contains a special banner for former Stingray Mark Bavis, whose #12 is retired in a special corner of the arena, unlike the Stingrays' other retired numbers (#14 Dave Seitz and #24 Brett Marietti). Bavis was killed by Al Qaeda terrorists on United Airlines Flight 175 on September 11, 2001. In the summer of 2007, the arena was picked as one of the seven audition arenas for the seventh season of American Idol.
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