Coors Events Center

Coors Events/Conference Center
"The CECC"
Former names	CU Events/Conference Center (1979–1990)
Location	Kittredge Loop Rd Boulder, CO 80302
Opened	November 8, 1979
Owner	University of Colorado
Operator	University of Colorado
Surface	Hardwood
Construction cost	$7.7 million
Architect	Sink Combs Dethlefs
Capacity	11,064
Tenants
Colorado Buffaloes (Basketball & Volleyball)

Coordinates: 40°0′16.7″N 105°15′38.1″W / 40.004639°N 105.260583°W / 40.004639; -105.260583 Coors Events Center is an 11,064-seat multi-purpose arena on the Boulder main campus of the University of Colorado. The arena opened in 1979, and is home to the Colorado Buffaloes men's and women's basketball teams and the volleyball team.

Previously the Colorado University Events Center, the building was renamed in September 1990 after the Coors Brewing Company, for which Coors paid $5 million to the university.^[1] The building is an eight-sided concrete structure, with two levels (the upper one being smaller) being above ground and the rest being below. Inside, the building is single-tiered. It replaced the Balch Fieldhouse, the current home of the indoor track and field team located directly adjacent to Folsom Field.

References

1. ^ D. Stanley Eitzen (2006). Fair And Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0742545628. http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0742545628&id=59fXN_fT3c8C&pg=RA1-PA144&lpg=RA1-PA144&ots=w4IDpEmf5m&dq=%22Coors+Events+Center%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=o98rRaKmcBUbhzxCqbqImdsKfRw.