It can even host American football, albeit with seating reduced to only 10,000.Ī wide range of high school athletics is played at the Dome, as the stadium features the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association High School Championships in Football, Wrestling, 4A Basketball, as well as 4A and 3A Volleyball. Unlike most other arenas of its size, the arena contains little in the way of fixed seating so as to maximize the flexibility of the seating arrangements and of the shape of the playing field. It additionally hosts wrestling events, such as WCW Spring Stampede 1999. It also hosted the Tacoma Rockets Western Hockey League team from 1991 to 1995, the Tacoma Sabercats of the West Coast Hockey League from 1997 to 2002, The Tacoma Stars indoor soccer team of the MISL from 1984 to 1992, gymnastics events during the 1990 Goodwill Games, numerous other minor league ice hockey and indoor soccer teams, and many concerts as well.
The arena hosted the Seattle SuperSonics from 1994- 1995 while the Seattle Center Coliseum was being renovated into the venue now known as KeyArena. The Superior Dome is also not a geodesic dome, it is a planar radian structure of glue-laminated beams.The first concert in the Tacoma Dome was David Bowie with The Tubes as the opening act. The Superior Dome in Marquette, MI is larger in diameter at 163.4 m (536 feet) but is only 43.6 meters (143 feet) high and only seats a maximum of 16,000 ]. It is the world's largest arena with a wooden dome in terms of total volume and seating capacity (23,000), with a diameter of 161.5 m (530 feet) and a height of 46.3 meters (152 feet) ]. The Tacoma Dome (constructed by Tacoma Dome Associates, led by McGranahan Messenger Architects, a design build entity) is an indoor arena located in Tacoma, Washington, USA, approximately 30 miles South of Seattle.Ĭompleted in 1983 for $44 million and opened on April 21, the arena seats 20,000 for basketball. Tenants = Tacoma Stars ( MISL) ( 1983- 1992)