Venue Facts

ROSE GARDEN

Designed by the architectural firm Ellerbe Becket of Kansas City, the total enclosed area of the Rose Garden is over 785,000 SF on eight primary levels. Five levels are open to the public during events. The general public uses two major concourses - the 100 Level (Main Concourse), and the 300 Level (Upper Concourse), along with a portion of the Event Level. Sandwiched between the 100 and 300 Levels are the 200 Level (Club) and the Suite Level.

The Rose Garden is a flexible, multi-purpose facility hosting a variety of events including NBA and college basketball, professional hockey, indoor track & field, gymnastics, major concerts, monster truck rallies, rodeo and bull riding, circuses, ice shows, boxing and convention and trade shows.

Total capacity for NBA Basketball is 19,980 (20,580 with standing room).

Over 650 televisions are used within the Rose Garden's concourses, restaurants, clubs, suites, and network of back-of-house areas.

Thirty-two public restrooms on four arena levels are available in the Rose Garden. In response to demand, the total number of women's water closets outnumber those allocated to men by nearly three to one.

Located on the 200 Level is the Crown Royal Sports Bar, the Rose Room (executive banquet facility), a lounge with a buffet-style restaurant, a concession stand, a grill, and three outdoor terraces (two smoking and one non-smoking).

Seventy luxury suites wrap an entire arena level, midway between the lower and upper seating tiers. Each suite has a capacity of 22 people and includes a wet bar, catered food service, a restroom and changing area, three televisions (two 31" monitors behind the wet bar and a 10" monitor in the restroom), and a stereo system.

Located in the depths of the Rose Garden's Event Level, the Command Center is the "eyes, ears, and brain" of the Rose Quarter. This high-tech room controls Rose Quarter and Commons lighting and sound systems, monitors security for the Rose Quarter and Rose Garden, monitors and assists in Rose Quarter traffic control, monitors and controls Rose Garden building/engineering systems, and monitors and controls the Rose Garden fire alarm system.

The highest point of the Rose Garden's 210,000 square foot roof is 140 feet above the ice-floor slab at the Event Level. The bottom chords of the roof trusses are 107 feet above the ice-floor slab. Within the roof structure is a network of catwalks totaling 3,100 lineal feet. Span of the primary trusses at the widest point is 343 feet.

Suspended above the event floor is a feature found in no other multi-functional arena in the world: the "Acoustical Cloud." Comprising eight rows of 20 panels for a total of 160 panels, the Cloud allows for customized acoustical treatments of the arena interior to correspond with the specific event or show-type requirements. Each rotating 10 foot by 10 foot square panel has a hard and a soft side. For an event where many loud reverberations are desired, such as a basketball game, the hard panel surface faces downward toward the event action and crowd, reflecting noise back to its source. During events where acoustical control and overall sound quality must be at a premium, such as a concert, the soft panel surface faces downward absorbing extraneous sound.

The Rose Garden is primarily a concrete-framed structure with a skeletal-steel roof. The material composition of the building is:

• 44,928 cubic yards of cast-in-place concrete
• 3,480 cubic yards of structural precast concrete
• 5,518 tons of reinforcing steel
• 79,000 pounds of post-tensioning cable
• 4,200 tons of structural steel (moment frame and roof structure)
• 63,000 connection bolts at the structural steel.

The Garden's non-structural exterior finishes include:

• 29,088 square feet of exterior glass
• 17,500 square feet of plaster soffit
• 52,142 square feet of architectural precast (concrete aggregate)
• 39,000 square feet of EIFS (External Finish Insulation System)
• 13,645 square feet of steel louvers

• 1,600,000 square feet of gypsum board
• 750,000 square feet of finished gypsum board
• 340,000 square feet of thermal insulation
• 100,000 square feet of acoustical ceiling panels
• 88,500 square feet of concrete masonry walls

MEMORIAL COLISEUM

Designed by the architectural firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM), Memorial Coliseum opened for business on November 1, 1960. A smaller and simpler version of the Rose Garden, the Coliseum has been called home by several Portland-area sports franchises over the years including the Buckaroos of the old Western Hockey League, the Winter Hawks of the current Western Hockey League, and the Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association. Following the 1994-95 NBA regular and post-seasons, the Trail Blazers have played 1,093 games in 25 years at the Coliseum, including 71 post-season playoff contests, nine games in the NBA Finals, and one World Championship. Upon leaving the Coliseum, the Trail Blazers had sold out 810 consecutive regular season and playoff games, a record unmatched by any franchise in professional sports. Total capacity for NBA Basketball is 12,888. The Blazers moved into their new home, the Rose Garden, in time for the 1995-96 season.

Like the Rose Garden, the Memorial Coliseum was designed as a flexible, multi-purpose venue. In addition to the numerous basketball and hockey contests held at the facility, the Coliseum has been host to hundreds of concerts, rodeos, circuses, ice shows, and trade shows. In 1965 the Coliseum hosted the NCAA Final Four collegiate basketball tournament. November 1, 1974 marked the first time in history a U.S. President attended an NBA game as President Gerald Ford watched the Blazers defeat the Buffalo Braves (now the Los Angeles Clippers), 113-106 in the Coliseum. Portland, and the rest of the globe, saw the debut of Dream Team in 1992 when the Coliseum played host to the Tournament of the Americas (North America's basketball selection tournament for the Olympic Games in Barcelona).