The St. Pete Times Forum is a sports arena in Tampa, Florida. It opened in 1996 as the Ice Palace and was built for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League, and is also the home of the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League. Both of these teams relocated to the Ice Palace from the former Thunderdome, a domed stadium in St. Petersburg now known as Tropicana Field. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x960, 309 KB) Summary St. ... Franklin Street, looking North, Tampa c. ... State nickname: Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush (R) Senators Bill Nelson (D) Mel Martinez (R) Official language(s) English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ... The Tampa Bay Lightning are a National Hockey League team based in Tampa, Florida. ... The modernized NHL shield logo, debuting in 2005. ... The Tampa Bay Storm are a member franchise of the Arena Football League. ... Current Arena Football League logo The Arena Football League (AFL) was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Tropicana Field is a domed stadium in St. ...

The venue, located in Downtown Tampa's Channel District was a secondary location chosen after the failure of Tampa Coliseum Inc. to secure funding to construct an arena on Tampa Sports Authority land near Tampa Stadium. Franklin Street, looking North, Tampa c. ... The Channel District is an area on the East side of downtown Tampa, Florida. ... Houlihans Stadium in Tampa opened in 1967 as Tampa Stadium (later changed when the Glazers acquired the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and renamed the stadium after a family-owned restaurant), and saw a number of major sporting teams and events grace its fields over the years. ...

Control of the venue has changed hands three times since the building's opening in 1996. The lease agreement ties the arena to the ownership of the Tampa Bay Lightning. Currently Palace Sports and Entertainment - owned by billionaire William Davidson - operate the venue, and have held control since summer 1999 when Davidson purchased the Lightning from then-owner Art Williams. This article or section should include material from Tenancy agreement A lease is a contract conveying from one person (the lessor) to another person (the lessee) the right to use and control some article of property for a specified period of time (the term), without conveying ownership, in exchange for... Palace Sports and Entertainment - owned by billionaire philanthropist William Davidson - is a sports and entertainment company that owns and operates such venues as the Palace At Auburb Hills in Michigan and the St. ... William Davidson (1923– ) is the chairman of Guardian Industries Corp. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Naming rights to the Ice Palace were sold to the St. Petersburg Times, a daily newspaper which circulates throughout the Tampa Bay area. Other entertainment events occasionally held in the Forum include concerts, NBA exhibition games, USF Basketball and NCAA Tournament games, tennis, professional wrestling, boxing, figure skating, and rodeos. The St. ... Tampa Bay is a large natural harbor and estuary on the western coast of Florida. ... This article discusses the National Basketball League, a defunct professional league in the United States. ... University of South Florida State University System of Florida FAMU FAU FGCU FIU FSU NCF UCF UF UNF USF UWF The University of South Florida, or USF, is a public university located in Tampa, Florida, USA, with branch campuses in St. ... NCAA Mens Basketball Division I Championship - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Tennis balls This article is about the sport, tennis. ... Bruno Sammartino puts the pressure on Stan The Man Stasiak. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ... Steer roping Rodeo is a traditional folk North American sport with influences from the history of Mexican vaqueros (cowboys) and American cowboys. ...

The building was played host to the 1998-99 NHL All Star game, and is scheduled to host the ACC Men's Basketball Tournament in 2007, the first two rounds of the Men's tournament in 2008, the Women's basketball Final Four in 2008 along with 2012 NCAA Frozen Four hockey final. The Frozen Four is the trademarked name of the final two rounds of the NCAA Division I championship of ice hockey in the USA. Schools advance in a single-elimination tournament from four regional sites to a single site, where the national semifinals and final game are played. ...

External Links

• Aerial Views of St. Pete Times Forum, StadiumFind.com