Amway Arena-

Address: 600 West Amelia Street
             Orlando, FL 32801

Home of: Orlando Magic (NBA)

Date opened: January 29, 1989

Capacity: Basketball: 17,519
              Arena Football: 15,924
              Hockey: 15,948
              Circus: 15,788
              Ice Skating: 16,882
              Concerts: 17,740 (end stage)
                           18,039 (center stage)

Cost: $98 Million

The Amway Arena, formerly TD Waterhouse Centre in Orlando opened on January 29, 1989, and is the home of the Orlando Magic of the NBA. The Amway Arena is also the home of the Orlando Miracle of the WNBA, the Orlando Solar Bears of the IHL, and the Orlando Predators of the AFL. The Amway Arena cost $98 million to build and is owned by the city of Orlando. There is parking on the lot for nearly 4,000 cars and the nearest airport is just over 10 miles away from the Amway Arena. The Amway Arena features 26 luxury suites that can be purchased game by game or for the entire season. The ticket prices range from $125 for amazing courtside seats to less than $20 for upper level seats. The Amway Arena hosts college and professional basketball, hockey, arena football, professional wrestling, the circus, numerous concerts, gymnastics, figure skating, and other local events.
TD Waterhouse, a division of Canadian finance company Toronto Dominion, purchased naming rights to the Orlando Arena in 1999, and named the venue the Amway Arena (utilizing Canadian spelling). Before the Orlando Arena's naming rights were sold, the other two buildings in the Orlando Centroplex—Orlando Expo Centre and Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre--utilized that spelling as well, so it was more than simply the fact that TD Waterhouse is a Canadian company that the building used the "Centre" spelling. Those naming rights expired on November 30, 2006, and TD Ameritrade, which bought TD Waterhouse's U.S. operations earlier in the year, chose not to renew them. The venue was briefly known as "The Arena in Orlando" before the new naming rights contract was signed, a period of approximately one week. On December 7, 2006 it was announced that Amway would become the new sponsor, renaming the building as the Amway Arena. Amway will pay $1.5 million over 4 years, or $375,000 a year, for the rights. Amway will also have an initial exclusive option to negotiate for the right to name the new Amway Center. Amway founder Richard DeVos owns the Orlando Magic team.

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