Toyota Center

The Toyota Center is a multi-purpose arena in the northwest United States, located in Kennewick, Washington.The arena opened in 1988 as the Tri-Cities Coliseum; the name was changed in 2004 to the Three Rivers Coliseum to match the Three Rivers Convention Center, which was built next door in the same year. In October 2005, a deal was reached between the city of Kennewick and Toyota, which agreed to pay $2 million over ten years for naming rights. The city uses the funds for needed improvements and upgrades to the facility. A smaller facility next door, built by the city in 1998, was named "Toyota Arena." In 2016, the Kennewick Public Facilities District will put to the voters an expansion of what is now known as the Three Rivers Complex. This expansion is called The Link. The Link is an ambitious project, a $35 million project that would build a 2,300 seat theater, add 50,000 square feet of convention space, and renovate the Toyota Center.SportsThe Toyota Center is home to the Western Hockey League's Tri-City Americans hockey team. The center was formerly the home of the Tri-City Chinook of the Continental Basketball Association and the Tri-Cities Fever indoor football team. During the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle, the venue was used for ice hockey, since the Kingdome was in use by the Mariners. It has also hosted the state championships for high school volleyball, held in November.