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wells fargo center<br />

Partial Total Partial<br />

Plan Price Plan Price<br />

N/A N/A<br />

N/A N/A<br />

N/A N/A<br />

$53.00 $583.00<br />

$44.00 $484.00<br />

$38.00 $418.00<br />

N/A N/A<br />

Wells Fargo CENTER QUICK FACTS<br />

project facts<br />

Wells Fargo Center Ownership:<br />

Comcast-Spectacor<br />

Management Company:<br />

Global Spectrum<br />

Web: wellsfargocenterphilly.com<br />

Twitter.com/WellsFargoCenter<br />

Facebook.com/WellsFargoCtr<br />

Ticketing: ComcastTIX.com<br />

Opening Date: August 31, 1996<br />

First <strong>Flyers</strong> Game at Wells Fargo<br />

Center: <strong>Flyers</strong> vs. Florida (10/5/96)<br />

Capacity (Hockey): 19,537<br />

Premium Seating: 126 suites and<br />

14 club boxes<br />

Concession Stands: 30<br />

Parking: Accommodations for 6,100<br />

vehicles<br />

Amenities: The Cadillac Grille,<br />

Cure Insurance Club,<br />

P.J. Whelihan’s, The Lexus Club,<br />

and Cigar Bar<br />

Scoreboard: Wells Fargo Center<br />

boasts a spectacular,<br />

high-tech, center-hung<br />

scoreboard. The state-of-the-art<br />

technology brings light emitting<br />

diode (LED) signage system to create<br />

incredible visual displays for all<br />

sporting events and attractions.<br />

Comcast-Spectacor hired ANC to<br />

design, construct, and install the<br />

structure which features 12 LED<br />

video displays between two circular<br />

LED ribbons. In all, the scoreboard<br />

delivers over 3,200 square<br />

feet of active LED signage.<br />

Major events:<br />

• 1996 World Cup of Hockey<br />

• 1997 Stanley Cup Final<br />

• 1998 U.S. Figure Skating<br />

Championships (Olympic Trials)<br />

• 1999 AHL All-Star Classic<br />

• 2000 NCAA Women’s Basketball<br />

Final Four<br />

• 2000 Republican National<br />

Convention<br />

• 2001 and 2002 X Games<br />

• 2001 NCAA Men’s East Regionals<br />

• 2001 NBA Finals<br />

• 2002 NBA All-Star Weekend<br />

• 2006 NCAA Men’s Basketball First<br />

& Second Rounds<br />

• 2008 Olympic Trials for<br />

Gymnastics<br />

• 2009 NCAA Men’s Basketball First<br />

& Second Rounds<br />

• 2010 Stanley Cup Final<br />

• 2011 NCAA Wrestling<br />

Championships<br />

• 2013 NCAA Men’s Basketball First<br />

of Second Round<br />

• 2014 NCAA Frozen Four<br />

• 2014 NHL Draft<br />

Cost<br />

$210 million<br />

Groundbreaking<br />

Sept. 14, 1994<br />

Architects<br />

Ellerbe Becket<br />

Builders<br />

L.F. Driscoll<br />

Project Managers<br />

Fox Management Company<br />

Details<br />

1,400 workers, 7,000 tons of steel,<br />

19,000 cubic yards of concrete,<br />

32,500 square feet of glass, 62,000<br />

lineal feet of driven piles, 76,000<br />

tiles, 400,000 square feet of dry<br />

wall.<br />

Naming Rights<br />

• CoreStates Center, Sept. 14, 1994<br />

to Sept. 1, 1998<br />

• First Union Center, Sept. 1, 1998<br />

to July 28, 2003<br />

• Wachovia Center, July 28,<br />

2003 to July 26, 2010<br />

• Wells Fargo Center, July 27 2010<br />

to present<br />

10<br />

<strong>Philadelphia</strong><strong>Flyers</strong>.com

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