Gray Civic Center

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Albany’s James H. Gray Civic Center as seen from Front Street.
Albany’s James H. Gray Civic Center as seen from Front Street.

The James H. Gray, Sr. Civic Center (Gray Civic Center for short) is an 8,702-seat multi-purpose arena in Albany, Georgia. It is home to the South Georgia Wildcats arena football team.

It was designed to also be an arena and a convention center; as a result the arena features 46,000 square feet (4,300 m²) of exhibit space plus an additional 6,000 square feet (600 m²) of meeting room space. As a rodeo arena it can seat 7,782; for Disney on Ice the arena can seat 6,570; as a basketball arena the Civic Center holds 8,636; for Sesame Street Live the arena seats 9,082; and for boxing and wrestling the arena seats 9,913. For concerts the arena seats 5,728 in a half-house configuration, 10,297 end-stage and 10,711 for a center-stage show. Up to 1,932 seats can be accommodated on the arena floor; there are only 905 retractable seats in addition to 7,794 permanent seats.

The arena hosted part of the 1992 Great American Bash wrestling card and WCW SuperBrawl 1994 in its entirety.

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