Charlotte Coliseum was a multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena located in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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11 Facts About Charlotte Coliseum
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Charlotte Coliseum hosted 371 consecutive NBA sell-outs from December 1988 to November 1997, which includes seven playoff games.
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City of Charlotte Coliseum sold the property and the building, along with a Maya Lin commission outside it, was demolished via implosion on June 3,2007.
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Construction on the Charlotte Coliseum began in 1986 and was opened on August 11,1988, with a dedication by the Reverend Billy Graham.
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Some thought the Charlotte Coliseum was too big, but Shinn believed the area's longstanding support for college basketball made the Charlotte Coliseum a more-than-viable home for an NBA team.
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However, poorly received decisions made by Shinn, as well as anger over personal scandals involving him, caused fan support to dwindle, and by then the once-sparkling Charlotte Coliseum was seen by many as outdated and no longer suitable to be the home of a major professional sports team.
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Later the Charlotte Coliseum was replaced with the now Spectrum Center located in the First Ward of Uptown Charlotte.
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The Charlotte Coliseum played host to the 1989 Sun Belt men's basketball tournament, setting a record for attendance.
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Additionally, the Coliseum was located on the opposite side of the county from UNC Charlotte's campus, and was thus inconvenient to most of its student body.
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Charlotte Coliseum was home to filming of the movie Eddie in 1996, and was the Tech Dome, home of the fictitious Tech University in the 1998 film He Got Game.
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