New State Fair Coliseum

[Plutonic Panda]

It looks like it can be added in the future, right? Just like the video massive screen they had showed.

[bombermwc]

It's really unfortunate that they reduced the size so much. It's really the same size as Union High School's UMAC. That's depressing.

Now it will probably loud AF when it comes time for state basketball though. With that low roof, it's going to be an even louder Loud City.

Maybe they'll pull a Ghalagher Iba when they expand it one day. LOL.

[_Kyle]

I'm curious what the updated seating capacity is.

[bombermwc]

I believe it said above that its only like 5k and maybe a little more for basketball. Far smaller than the old arena. Now it wasn't full for most events, but this will be busting at the seams.

[Pete]

The fixed seats are 5,500 and capacity can be expanded to 9,000 for sporting events.

[SEMIweather]

Yeah, hopefully expanding to 9,000 for sporting events is relatively straightforward because there were just about that many people in the Big House for the Douglass/Weatherford 4A State Championship last year. And I’d say pretty much all of the state title games have at least 5,000 people in attendance.

[Pete]

Norick arena can hold almost 11,000, so this won't be much smaller.