Sports Venues in Oklahoma - BOK Center, Oklahoma City Arena, Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, Gallagher-Iba Arena (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: BOK Center, Oklahoma City Arena, Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, Gallagher-Iba Arena, Boone Pickens Stadium, Cox Convention Center, ONEOK Field, Barry Switzer Center, Mark Price Arena, Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium, Lloyd Noble Center, McCasland Field House, Mabee Center, Sherman E. Smith Training Center, Allie P. Reynolds Stadium, Broken Bow Memorial Stadium, SpiritBank Event Center, Sawyer Center, Tulsa Coliseum, RedHawks Ballpark, L. Dale Mitchell Baseball Park, Remington Park, Wantland Stadium, Oiler Park, Oklahoma State Fair Arena, Doc Wadley Stadium, Taft Stadium, ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, Michael D. Case Tennis Center, Tulsa Convention Center, Union Multipurpose Activity Center, Boyd Field, All Sports Stadium, Avey's Coliseum, Carl Wooten Field, Hamilton Field House, Will Rogers Downs, Hurricane Soccer & Track Stadium, Expo Square Pavilion, Great Plains Coliseum, Chisholm Trail Coliseum, Bartlesville Municipal Stadium, Bomber Bowl. Excerpt: The BOK Center, or Bank of Oklahoma Center, is a 19,100-seat multi-purpose arena and a primary indoor sports and event venue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Designed to accommodate arena football, hockey, basketball, concerts, and similar events, the facility was built at a cost of $178 million in public funds and an additional $18 million in privately-funded upgrades. Ground was broken on August 31, 2005 and a ribbon-cutting ceremony involving Tulsa musicians Garth Brooks and Hanson took place on August 30, 2008. The arena's schedule of concerts and other events began on August 31 with a community choir hosted by Sam Harris. Designed by Cesar Pelli, the architect of the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, the BOK Center is the flagship project of Tulsa County's Vision 2025 long-range development initiative. Local firm, Matrix Architects Engineers Planners, I...