2022 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report
The Greensboro Coliseum Complex (the “Coliseum Complex”) is a multi-building entertainment, sports and convention facility serving the citizens of Greensboro, surrounding areas and beyond since 1959. The Coliseum Complex includes the 21,000-seat Greensboro Coliseum, the 167,000 square-foot Special Events Center with three exhibition halls, a 5,000-seat mini-arena, the 300-seat Odeon Theatre, The Terrace, White Hall Amphitheatre, Greensboro Aquatic Center (GAC), the ACC Hall of Champions, The Fieldhouse and the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts. It is among the 20 largest facilities of its type nationally. The Greensboro Coliseum has a long and distinguished history of hosting ACC and NCAA basketball championships, as well as concerts by some of the top artists in the recording industry. The Greensboro Coliseum hosted the 2016 USA Masters Games and the 2015 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, an event that made a highly successful North Carolina debut in 2011 and again in January 2020. Since 2000, the Greensboro Coliseum has hosted the ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament multiple times and will again host in March 2023. The Coliseum has hosted the ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament every year from 2000-2016 and 2018-2022 and will again host this event in 2023. In addition, the Coliseum hosted the NCAA Women’s Regional Basketball Tournament in 2007, 2008, 2015, 2019 and 2022, and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in 2001, 2006, 2009 and 2012. An announcement came in October 2020 to host the first and second rounds of the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament in 2023. Due to these events, Greensboro is appropriately known as “Tournament Town”. In July 2021, the Greensboro Coliseum facility was awarded and received $10 million from a Shuttered Venue Operator Grant, administered by the Small Business Administration, which helped support facility expenses due to certain revenue shortfalls experienced during the pandemic. The Greensboro Coliseum is also home to an arena football franchise, the Carolina Cobras of the National Arena League, which began their in augural season in April 2018.
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