Moda Center, formerly known as the Rose Garden, is the primary indoor sports arena in Portland, Oregon, United States.
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10 Facts About Moda Center
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Moda Center is a multipurpose arena which is suitable for numerous indoor sports, including basketball, ice hockey, arena football, and lacrosse, as well as for hosting other events such as concerts, conventions, and circuses.
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Moda Center is a precast concrete-framed structure with a roof made up of skeletal steel.
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Smaller, more intimate events, Moda Center can be placed into a configuration known as the "Theater of the Clouds".
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The acoustical cloud is a set of 160 rotating acoustic panels suspended from the Moda Center ceiling, intended to recreate the roar of noise that made the old Memorial Coliseum one of the loudest buildings in the NBA.
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The acoustics of Moda Center have been widely praised compared to similar venues.
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Moda Center is currently owned by Vulcan Sports and Entertainment, a holding company owned by the Estate of Paul Allen which manages Allen's various sports-related properties.
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Moda Center has hosted PBR Built Ford Tough Series bull riding events, has hosted editions of Monday Night Raw, Smackdown, Unforgiven, No Mercy (2008) and NXT Takeover: Portland, and UFC 102 in 2009.
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Exterior of the Moda Center was featured in How I Met Your Mother's 2011 episode, Tick Tick Tick; again in the 2013 episode Platonish, and the series finale episode, Last Forever.
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Exterior of the Moda Center was featured in iCarly's 2009 episode, iFight Shelby Marx.
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