Enterprise Center
The Enterprise Center is an 18,096-seat arena located in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Its primary tenant is the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, but it is also used for other functions, such as NCAA basketball, NCAA hockey, concerts, professional wrestling and more. In a typical year, the facility hosts about 175 events. Industry trade publication Pollstar has previously ranked Enterprise Center among the top ten arenas worldwide in tickets sold to non-team events, but the facility has since fallen into the upper sixties, as of 2017.
Exterior of the Enterprise Center | |
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| Former names | Kiel Center (1994–2000) Savvis Center (2000–2006) Scottrade Center (2006–2018) |
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| Address | 1401 Clark Avenue |
| Location | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Coordinates | 38°37′36″N 90°12′9″W |
| Public transit | Red Blue At Civic Center |
| Owner | City of St. Louis |
| Operator | SLB Acquisition Holdings LLC |
| Capacity | Ice hockey: 18,096 Basketball and Concerts: 22,000 Indoor soccer: 10,000 (expandable to 18,724) |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | December 14, 1992 |
| Opened | October 8, 1994 |
| Construction cost | $135 million ($293 million in 2023 dollars) |
| Architect | Ellerbe Becket |
| Structural engineer | The Consulting Engineers Group, Inc. |
| Services engineer | William Tao & Associates, Inc. |
| General contractor | J.S. Alberici Construction |
| Main contractors | DKW Construction, Inc. |
| Tenants | |
| St. Louis Blues (NHL) (1995–present) St. Louis Ambush (NPSL) (1994–2000) Saint Louis Billikens (NCAA) (1994–2008) St. Louis Stampede (AFL) (1995–1996) St. Louis Vipers (RHI) (1995–1997, 1999) St. Louis Steamers (MISL) (2004–2006) RiverCity Rage (NIFL) (2006) | |
| Website | |
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The arena opened in 1994 as the Kiel Center. It was known as the Savvis Center from 2000 to 2006, and Scottrade Center from 2006 to 2018. On May 21, 2018, the St. Louis Blues and representatives of Enterprise Holdings, based in St. Louis, announced that the naming rights had been acquired by Enterprise and that the facility's name, since July 1, 2018, adopted its current name.