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Key facts
- Former names
- Toronto Postal Delivery Building, Air Canada Centre (1999–2018)
- Address
- 40 Bay Street
- Location
- Toronto , Ontario, Canada
- Owner
- Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment
- Operator
- Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment
- Capacity
- Basketball : 19,800 (20,511 with standing room) , Concerts : 19,800 , Ice hockey : 18,819 (20,270 with standing room) , Theatre : 5,200
- Acreage
- 61,780.5 m (665,000 sq ft)
- Public transit
- Union Station , Union , Union Bus Terminal
- Parking
- 2 underground levels for 212 vehicles
- Groundbreaking
- 1938 (original building), March 12, 1997 (reconstruction)
- Opened
- February 19, 1999
- Construction cost
- CA$265 million , ($468 million in 2025 dollars) , Renovations :, 2003: $5 million , ($7.99 million in 2025 dollars) , 2015: $10 million , ($13 million in 2025 dollars) , 2023: $350 million
- Architect
- Brisbin Brook Beynon Architects (Architect of Record), HOK Sport , (Consulting Architects)
- Project manager
- Clarendon Projects Ltd.
- Structural engineer
- Yolles Partnership Inc.
- Services engineer
- The Mitchell Partnership, Inc.
- General contractor
- PCL Constructors Western, Inc.
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Encyclopedic overview
Scotiabank Arena, formerly known as Air Canada Centre (ACC), is a multi-purpose arena located on Bay Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the home of the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). In addition, the minor league Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Raptors 905 of the NBA G League play occasional games at the arena. The arena was previously home to the Toronto Phantoms of the Arena Football League (AFL) and the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League. Scotiabank Arena also hosts other events, such as concerts, political conventions and video game competitions.
The arena is 61,780.5 square metres (665,000 square feet) in size. It is owned and operated by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd. (MLSE), which also owns the Leafs and the Raptors, as well as their respective development teams.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scotiabank Arena” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.