St. Louis Arena

About St. Louis Arena

St. Louis Arena was an ABA, NBA and NHL arena in Saint Louis, Missouri. It opened in 1929 and closed in 1999. Its last recorded capacity was 14,200. Tenants included St. Louis Eagles (NHL, 1935), St. Louis Bombers (NBA, 1947–1950), St. Louis Blues (NHL, 1968–1994) and Spirits of St. Louis (ABA, 1975–1976). In all, 4 teams from 3 leagues have called it home. On our ranked lists it ranks 9th for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams and 232nd shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years. It has also been known as Checkerdome (1977–1982).

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• 9th for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams
• 232nd shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 40th shortest-lived of 46 basketball arenas with known opening and closing years
• 32nd shortest-lived of 40 hockey arenas with known opening and closing years
• 31st longest single tenancy (26 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey arenas
• 37th shortest-lived of 43 NBA arenas with known opening and closing years
• 86th longest single tenancy (3 years) of the 104 longest on record in NBA arenas
• 27th shortest-lived of 34 NHL arenas with known opening and closing years
• 10th shortest-lived of 11 ABA arenas with known opening and closing years
• 9th longest single tenancy (1 years) of the 14 longest on record in ABA arenas

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.

The site today

• The site is now occupied by The Highlands at Forest 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 (CC BY): Photograph.