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Usher announced a 24-date concert tour to follow his Super Bowl halftime show performance this Sunday.
The new “Usher: Past Present Future” tour will visit arenas across the United States starting Aug. 20 in Washington, D.C., making stops in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Toronto, Atlanta and more, before wrapping up in Chicago on Oct. 29.
The tour will make a Denver stop at Ball Arena on Tuesday, Sept. 17.
Usher is completing the end of his two-year “My Way: The Las Vegas Residency” run culminating in 100 sold out shows at Dolby Live at Park MGM. Usher will perform at halftime of Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday in Las Vegas.
Usher’s ninth studio album “Coming Home” will be released Friday. – 9news
FAST FACTS
- Cost more than $180 million in private funds to build across 21 months
- Site Acreage: 45 acres
- Square Footage: 675,000
- Opened October 1, 1999 with Celine Dion in concert
- The Grand Atrium sculpture weighs 2,000 pounds, cost $75,000 and is 1.5 times life size
- It takes over 1,000 staff members to run an event
- Owned and operated by Kroenke Sports & Entertainment
SEATING AT BALL ARENA
- Concerts: 20,000+ depending on stage configuration
- Basketball: 19,520
- Hockey: 17,809
- Lacrosse: 17,809
- Special Events: 21,000
- Suites: 95 luxury suites that can accommodate 12 – 16 people
COLORADO AVALANCHE
- There are 149 panes of .5″ thick glass that surround the hockey rink, weighing between 50 and 250 pounds apiece. It takes 2 forklifts and 8 people 45 minutes to “hang” the entire rink.
- Each net hung on the ends of the rink has a lifespan of only 33 games.
- For other events in the building, the ice is covered with approximately 600 pieces of a 1″ thick fiberglass board.
DENVER NUGGETS
- Cost of the basketball court is $105,000.00.
- Each basketball stanchion weighs approximately 3,300 pounds and is anchored into the basketball floor to prevent it from being tipped over.
- Each net on the basketball goals is replaced every 5 games or as needed.
- There are 233 pieces to the basketball floor – each weighing approximately 185 pounds. The total weight of the entire basketball floor is 41,625 pounds.
COLORADO MAMMOTH
- The Mammoth carpet consists of 14 – 15′ wide rolls of Astroturf and is .75″ thick.
- It takes 12 people only 25 minutes to lay the field.
