Alltel Arena is a 18,000-seat multi-purpose arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas, directly across the Arkansas River from downtown Little Rock. The arena opened in October 1999. It is home to the following teams: Image File history File links Nlr_alltel_arena_004_l. ... An arena is a circular or oval shaped (or sometimes rectangular) public space (akin to a classical amphitheatre), designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. ... North Little Rock is a city located in Pulaski County, Arkansas. ... Lower Arkansas River The Arkansas River is a tributary of the Mississippi which flows east and southeast through Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and the state of Arkansas. ... Little Rock skyline Motto: Nickname: The Capital City, Rock-Town, City of Roses Map Political Statistics Founded 1821 Incorporated 1831 Pulaski County Mayor Jim Dailey Geographic Statistics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 302. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

• Basketball:
  • Professional: Arkansas RimRockers (NBA Development League)
• Arena football:
  • af2: Arkansas Twisters, owned by Equity Broadcasting.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Trojans played home games at the arena from the time when the arena opened until the team moved in 2005 to a new stadium, the Jack Stephens Center, on the school's campus in Little Rock. The Arkansas RiverBlades, a defunct ice hockey team of the ECHL, also played at the Alltel Arena. Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005 For other uses, see Basketball (disambiguation). ... The Arkansas RimRockers is the name of a NBA Development League minor league basketball team based in North Little Rock. ... The National Basketball Association Development League, more commonly known as the NBA Development League, NBA D-League, or just D-League, is the NBAs officially sponsored and operated developmental basketball organization. ... Arena football is a sport invented by Jim Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League. ... af2 (short for arenafootball2) is the name of the Arena Football Leagues minor league, which started play in 2000. ... The Arkansas Twisters are a professional arena football team. ... University of Arkansas Little Rock University of Arkansas at Little Rock is the third largest university in Arkansas, with a fall 2005 credit enrollment of 12,000. ... Jack Stephens Center at UALR Jack Stephens Center is a 5,600-seat multi-purpose arena in Little Rock, Arkansas and was built in 2005. ... Arkansas RiverBlades logo The Arkansas RiverBlades was a short_lived minor-league ice hockey team located in Little Rock, Arkansas. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... The ECHL (formerly the East Coast Hockey League) is a professional ice hockey league based in Princeton, New Jersey with teams scattered across the United States and Canada, generally regarded as a tier below the American Hockey League. ...

On August 1, 1995, Pulaski County, Arkansas voters approved a one-year, one-cent sales tax for the purpose of building a multi-purpose arena, expanding the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock, and making renovations to the Main Street bridge between Little Rock and North Little Rock. $20 million of the sales tax proceeds went toward the Convention Center expansion, with the remainder used to build the arena. Pulaski County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. ...

That money, combined with a $20 million contribution from the State of Arkansas, $17 million from private sources and $7 million from Little Rock-based Alltel Corporation paid for the construction of a 377,000-square-foot arena, which cost nearly $80 million to build. When the doors opened in 1999, the facility was paid for and there was no public indebtedness. Alltel NYSE: AT is a telecommunications company located in Little Rock, Arkansas. ...

Alltel Arena logo.

Two sites in North Little Rock drew interest from county officials for the proposed arena. The first was a 19.5-acre commercial site west of Interstate 30, which contained a strip mall, a Kroger and an abandoned K-Mart storefront. The second site was an 11.6 acre plot at the foot of the Broadway Bridge. Image File history File links Alltelalogo. ...

The Pulaski County Multipurpose Civic Center Facilities Board selected the larger site for the arena in 1996 and paid $3.7 million for the land, some of which was acquired through eminent domain, a move protested in court by several landowners.

The second site later would be chosen for the new baseball stadium, Dickey-Stephens Park, being constructed for the Arkansas Travelers. The state’s only Class AA minor-league baseball team is moving from 73-year-old Ray Winder Field in Little Rock to a new $28 million home in North Little Rock at the start of the 2007 season. The Arkansas Travelers are a minor league baseball team based in Little Rock, Arkansas. ...

The arena was the home of the 2003 and 2006 Southeastern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament. According to media reports, the SEC is interested in the arena hosting the womens basketball tournament again in 2009. The Arena holds the all-time attendance record for an SEC Womens Tournament when 43,642 people attended the event in 2003. The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a college athletic conference which operates in the southeastern United States. ...

The arena will host portions of the first and second rounds of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament in March of 2008 and the SEC Gymnastics Championships in 2007. The NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship is held each spring featuring 65 of the top college basketball teams in the United States. ...

The arena hosted the Arkansas Awana Games in 2006 and WWE No Mercy in 2002. Official language(s) English Capital Little Rock Largest city Little Rock Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 29th 137 732 km² 385 km 420 km 2. ... Awana (Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed) is an international, Bible-centered youth ministry providing local churches with weekly clubs, programs and training for students in preschool through high school. ... No Mercy logo (since 2003) WWE No Mercy is an annual World Wrestling Entertainment pay-per-view event. ...

The arena is owned by the Multi-Purpose Civic Center Facilities Board for Pulaski County. The arena was designed by the Civic Center Design Team (CCDT), Burt Taggart & Associates, Architects/Engineers, The Wilcox Group, Garver & Garver Engineering and Rosser International of Atlanta.