| The Dunkin' Donuts Center is an indoor arena | | | | 2,620-seat Alumni Hall. |
| located in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.It was | | | | The Dunkin’ Donuts |
| built in 1972. The Arena actually built as a place | | | | Center attracts a vast audience of patrons from |
| for the emerging Providence College men's | | | | all over Southeastern New England. The Arena |
| basketball program and the high demand for | | | | partners with a wide variety of companies and |
| tickets to their games in Alumni Hall, as well as for | | | | organizations seeking to interact with audiences. |
| the then-Providence Reds, who played in the | | | | The New England Steamrollers of the Arena |
| nearly fifty-year old Rhode Island Auditorium. | | | | Football League called the arena home in 1988. |
| Initially, it was known as the Providence Civic | | | | The Providence Reds hockey team played there |
| Center. Later on, a naming rights deal was | | | | for five years starting in 1972. The venue has |
| reached with Dunkin' Donuts in June 2001. The | | | | long been a regular stop on WWE tours. It was |
| Providence Bruins of the American Hockey | | | | the site of WWF King of the Ring tournaments |
| League and the Providence College Friars men's | | | | five times and hosted the 1994 Royal Rumble. In |
| basketball team are the current tenants of this | | | | 1999 the Dunkin' Donuts Center was home to the |
| wonderful arena. | | | | WWE Backlash Pay-Per-View event. In 2005 this |
| The Dunkin Donuts Center has become a very | | | | venue hosted WWE Armageddon on December |
| important sports place in the USA.It has been the | | | | 18, 2005 presented by SmackDown! and Xbox |
| site of many collegiate tournaments, including the | | | | 360. A number of other professional sporting |
| inaugural 1980 Big East Conference men's | | | | events (such as the Harlem Globetrotters), as well |
| basketball tournament; several ECAC basketball | | | | as rock, pop, and opera concerts have occurred |
| tournaments; NCAA basketball tournament first- | | | | there as well. |
| and second-round games in 1976, 1979, 1980, | | | | The Rhode Island Convention Center Authority |
| 1981, 1989, and 1996; the 1978 and 1985 | | | | purchased the building from the City of |
| basketball regionals; the inaugural 1985 Hockey | | | | Providence for dollar28.5 million in December of |
| East Tournament (won by the home team); and | | | | 2005,. A major reconstruction is underway which |
| the 1995 and 2000 NCAA Frozen Four ice hockey | | | | will also include an expansion of the arena seating |
| championships. | | | | capacity. The Authority will spend dollar62 million |
| The University of Rhode Island has also played | | | | on the renovation of the "Dunk" to transform the |
| home basketball games at Dunkin' Donuts Center. | | | | facility into a state-of-the-art arena. Two major |
| On some special occasions, the PC women's | | | | elements of the construction include an expanded |
| basketball team has played "home" games in the | | | | lobby and an enclosed pedestrian bridge between |
| arena, most notably for games against URI or | | | | the Convention Center and the Dunkin' Donuts |
| UConn, where demand for tickets would be | | | | Center. |
| enough to warrant an arena larger than the | | | | |