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Operator
  
University of Colorado

Broke ground
  
October 1977

Opened
  
8 November 1979

Surface
  
Hardwood

Capacity
  
11,064

Owner
  
University of Colorado

Coors Events Center

Former names
  
Coors Events/Conference Center (1990-2008); CU Events/Conference Center (1979–1990)

Location
  
950 Regent Drive, Boulder, CO 80302

Construction cost
  
$7,579,756 ($25 million in 2017 dollars)

Address
  
950 Regent Dr, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

Team
  
Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball

Similar
  
Folsom Field, Jon M Huntsman Center, Maples Pavilion, Haas Pavilion, Gill Coliseum

The scene here at the coors events center just before tipoff


The Coors Events Center is an 11,064-seat multi-purpose arena on the Boulder main campus of the University of Colorado. It opened in 1979, and is home to the Colorado Buffaloes men's and women's basketball teams and the volleyball team.

Contents

The building is an eight-sided concrete structure, with three levels. The arena floor, the service level and the concourse level. The building is single-tiered inside. It replaced the Balch Fieldhouse, the current home of the indoor track and field team located directly adjacent to Folsom Field.

Coors events center floor timelapse


History

The venue was formerly called the CU Events/Conference Center and was renamed to the Coors Events/Conference Center in September 1990 after the Coors family in recognition of a $5 million gift from the Adolph Coors Foundation. In 2008 with the addition of the basketball offices to the building on the service level, the "Conference" was removed from the name as there were no longer conference rooms in the building.

On December 9, 1981, the Grateful Dead played their last Boulder show at the then-named "CUC."

Improvements

The most dramatic changes since the building has been opened have come since 2008. After the 2007-08 basketball seasons, the CEC underwent a $200,000 "Floor Lift" with a permanent maple surface was installed that has technology to reduce injuries and fatigue.

In April 2008, the men's and women's basketball offices were relocated to the CEC from Folsom Field second level where the conference rooms were previously located.

In the summer of 2010, two new video boards were installed in the southwest and northeast corners. With the new video boards and as part of the new practice facility, a new state-of-the-art production facility was built for the department's award-winning BuffVision office. The production room controls the video boards at both the Coors Events Center and Folsom Field.

A new 44,000-square foot practice facility was opened in August 2011 for volleyball and basketball. The building was just the second athletic facility in the nation and third on CU's campus to earn LEED Platinum Certification, the highest possible by the internationally recognized system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council.

In August 2013, a video room for the men's and women's basketball teams was opened for the first time, giving both teams additional meeting space and the ability to watch film more efficiently.

In February 2014, a new weight room was finished in the remaining space on the second level where the conference rooms were once located, adjacent to the basketball offices that were relocated in 2008.

References

Coors Events Center Wikipedia