![]() It also hosted the Tacoma Rockets of the WHL from 1991 to 1995, the Tacoma Sabercats of the WCHL from 1997 to 2002, and the Tacoma Stars indoor soccer team of the MISL from 1983 to 1992. It was the Seattle SuperSonics' home floor for the 1994–95 season while the Seattle Center Coliseum was being renovated,!- (now undergoing renovations)-> and was used for various regular Sonics games during other seasons. The dome's first event was a concert by American singer/actor Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band as part of the Dome's opening festivities, April 24, 1983. It can also host American football, albeit with seating reduced to 10,000. Unlike most other arenas of its size, the arena contains little in the way of fixed seating, so as to maximize the flexibility of the seating arrangements and the shape of the playing field. The wood which was used to make the roof came from trees that were downed in the 1980 eruption of Mount St. It is the largest arena with a wooden dome in the world y volume (the Superior Dome in Marquette, Michigan, is a larger-diameter geodesic dome at, but is high and seats a maximum of 16,000). At in diameter and in height, the arena seats 20,722 for basketball games, with a maximum capacity of 21,000. Upon winning an international design competition, local architects McGranahan and Messenger completed the Tacoma Dome at a cost of $44 million it opened on April 21, 1983. The Tacoma Dome is amulti-purpose arena in Tacoma, Washington, United States, situated along Interstate 5 about south of Seattle. ![]()
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