La Crosse Center
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The La Crosse Center is an 8,000 seat multi-purpose arena in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. It was built in 1980. It was home to the La Crosse Night Train indoor football team, two Continental Basketball Association (CBA) teams: The La Crosse Catbirds and the La Crosse Bobcats. The Center has had other bids for professional sporting teams such as indoor hockey.
The Center is also a convention center; in addition to the arena, which offers 21,600 square feet of exhibit space, a 45 foot ceiling height, a 60-by-40-foot stage, two locker rooms, and three dressing rooms. There is also a 14,935 square foot North Hall which can open up to the arena to be used in combination, and a 38,740 square foot South Exhibit Hall; all three venues total 75,275 square feet of exhibit space. The complex also contains 9,432 square feet of meeting room space in five meeting rooms, which can be divided into nine meeting rooms.
While both exhibit halls and the arena are used for trade shows, conventions, meetings, and banquets, the arena is also used for sporting events, concerts, circuses, ice shows, and other events.
The center has hosted numerous concerts. In addition to live concerts, the center is home to countless exhibits and shows. One noteworthy event is the annual Bi-State Classic high school wrestling tournament. The center holds ten full-size wrestling mats and up to 55 wrestling squads.
The most recent change to the La Crosse Center was a fifty foot skywalk spanning over Second Street in downtown La Crosse. The skywalk links a five floor parking ramp with the east end of the convention center.
Furthermore, the La Crosse Center is situated about 100 feet from the banks of the Mississippi River, and Riverside Park.
