Mitchell Center

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Mitchell Center
Location	Mobile, AL 36608
Opened	1998
Owner	University of South Alabama
Operator	University of South Alabama
Tenants
USA Jaguars (Men's and women's basketball)
Seats
10,041

Mitchell Center is a 10,041-seat multi-purpose arena in Mobile, Alabama. It was built in 1998. It is home to the University of South Alabama Jaguars basketball team.

The venue can seat 3,500 for theatrical presentations, 7,354 for front-of-arena concerts, 8,777 for the circus and auto racing, and 10,800 for full-arena concerts; it has become the premier sports and entertainment venue in the region.

The arena contains 18,080 square feet of arena floor space; 6,918 square feet of meeting rooms space and an additional 4,230 square feet in the Globe area, where the Waterman Globe is located. The arena's eight-sided Daktronics center-hung scoreboard features four video screens. There are 16 ticket windows, a 14,000-watt sound system, a 60-by-40-foot portable stage; four dressing and two team locker rooms, a training room, a production office and in-house catering. The arena measures 63'8" for floor to the roof. There is parking for 4,450 cars within a ten-minute walk of the arena, including 450 at the arena itself.