Spectrum Center

About Spectrum Center

Spectrum Center is an NBA arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. It opened in 2005. It was designed by Ellerbe Becket. It seats 19,077. Its current tenant is Charlotte Hornets (NBA), since 2006. It was formerly home to Charlotte Sting (WNBA, 2006). By capacity it ranks 14th of 30 current NBA venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 285th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use and 59th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names. It has also been known as Charlotte Bobcats Arena (2005–2007) and Time Warner Cable Arena (2008–2015).

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• 285th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 59th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names
• 26th oldest of 37 basketball arenas still in use
• 16th for most name changes among 29 basketball arenas with 3 or more names
• 46th longest single tenancy (20 years) of the 109 longest on record in basketball arenas
• 39th longest single tenancy (20 years) of the 104 longest on record in NBA arenas
• 8th for most name changes among 13 WNBA arenas with 3 or more names

Venue Information

Address 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.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

Capacity by layout

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

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 Nominatim (ODbL): Address.
• 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), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, basketball layout, Capacity, hockey layout.