Multi-Purpose Stadiums in the United States: Veterans Stadium, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Veterans Stadium, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Qualcomm Stadium, Memorial Stadium, Riverfront Stadium, Edward Jones Dome, Hancock Stadium, Sports Complex at Benedictine University, New Siu Stadium, O’brien Stadium. Excerpt: “The Ed” The Edward Jones Dome (more formally known as the Edward Jones Dome at America’s Center , and previously known as The Trans World Dome (from 1995-2001) is a multi-purpose stadium in St. Louis, Missouri , and home of the St. Louis Rams of the NFL . It was constructed largely to lure an NFL team back to St. Louis, and to serve as a convention center. The Dome provides multiple stadium configurations that can seat up to 70,000 people. Seating levels include: a private luxury suite level, a private club seat and luxury suite level, a concourse level (lower bowl) and terrace level (upper bowl). The dome was completed in 1995. The dome is bordered by America’s Center to the west, Cole Street to the north, Broadway to the east and Convention Plaza to the south. It is accessible off Interstate 70 eastbound at the Convention Center/Broadway/Busch Stadium exit, I-70 westbound from Illinois at the Martin Luther King Jr./Veterans Memorial Bridge, and Interstate 55 southbound at the Gateway Arch /Busch Stadium exit. The stadium is also serviced by the Convention Center Metrolink rail station. Naming rights From its construction to mid-fall 1995, the dome was known as the “Dome at America’s Center”. Then the dome was known as the Trans World Airlines Dome , after Trans World Airlines , until 2001, when TWA was acquired by American Airlines (American already has its name on two NBA venues in Dallas and Miami ). The facility was then briefly went back known as the Dome at America’s Center until the naming rights were acquired…