Border Cities Arena

About Border Cities Arena

Border Cities Arena was an NHL arena in Windsor, Ontario. It opened in 1924 and closed in 2013. Its last recorded capacity was 4,400. Its only tenant was Detroit Cougars (NHL, 1927). On our ranked lists it ranks 265th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

Appears in

• 265th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 40th shortest-lived of 40 hockey arenas with known opening and closing years
• 34th shortest-lived of 34 NHL arenas with known opening and closing years

Venue Information

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Capacity by layout

Seating capacity depends on how the building is laid out for each event. Figures are the best sourced claim per layout.

The site today

• The site is now part of Fred Thomas Park, a park.

From OpenStreetMap data near the venue's recorded coordinates, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Maps show what is there now, not the old footprint.

Teams

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap (ODbL): What stands on the site today.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Capacity, Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 0 m of this point).
• Wikimedia Commons (Public domain): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, concert layout, Capacity, hockey layout.