Toyota Center (Tri-Cities Coliseum)

The Toyota Center, formerly known as the Tri-Cities Coliseum, is a multi-purpose facility located in the heart of Kennewick, Washington. This facility, owned by the City of Kennewick, has grown into a regional facility serving the 225,000 residents of the Tri-Cities and surrounding areas. The Toyota Center annually hosts over 150 meeting room and arena events.

Many great names in the music industry have played the stage at the Toyota Center. It is also the home of the Western Hockey League's Tri-City Americans and the Tri- Cities Fever of the Indoor Football League. In addition to the sporting events and concerts, the Toyota Center plays host to consumer and trade shows, banquets, conventions, family shows, meetings and much more.

The Toyota Center is an (approximately 7,715-seat) multi-purpose arena in Kennewick, Washington, USA.

The arena opened in 1988 as the Tri-Cities Coliseum (the name was changed in 2004 to the Three Rivers Coliseum to match the Three Rivers Convention Center, which was built next door in the same year). In early October 2005, a deal was reached between the city of Kennewick, Washington and Toyota, Toyota would pay $2 million over ten years for naming rights. The city of Kennewick uses that money to do much needed improvements and upgrades to the facility. A smaller facility next door, built by the City of Kennewick in 1998, was named the Toyota Arena.

The Toyota Center is home to the Western Hockey League's Tri-City Americans hockey team and the Tri-Cities Fever of the Indoor Football League as well as the former home of the Tri-City Chinook of the Continental Basketball Association.

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