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Located between Cleveland and Pittsburgh, Covelli Centre is Northeast Ohio's newest destination for family entertainment. An attractive 'in-between' city, Youngstown now sees first-rate events making a stop to entertain the area. Families can expect to see nationally-recognized circuses, chart-topping musicians, jaw-dropping sporting events, and crowd-pleasing family shows like Disney On Ice and Sesame Street Live. Patrons can expect to see:

Covelli Centre Quick Facts

• Cost of the facility - $42 Million dollars.
• Seating Capacities for various events...
  - Hockey: 5700
  - Basketball: 5900
  - End Stage Concert: 6300
  - 1/2 House: 3800
  - Center Stage in Round: 7000
• Total area of the facility: 169,000 sq. ft.
• 400 parking spaces available on-site, 26 of which are Handicap accessible.
• Covelli Centre staff includes 16 full time, year round employees and as many as 250 part time seasonal employees.
• Floor space hockey requires for games: 85' x 200' (17,000 sq. ft.)
• There are 520 Club Seats and 26 Luxury Suites.
• There are 60 TV's located in the suites and throughout the Covelli Centre.
• There are a total of 138 restroom fixtures throughout the Covelli Centre.
  - 83 Women's
  - 53 Men's
  - 2 Family.
• It takes an average of 6 hrs.to convert the facility from event to event.
• It takes a Covelli Centre Operations staff of about 10 people 32 hrs. to make ice. This includes painting all ice logos in by hand.
• The Covelli Centre Ice is put in late September and remains for the entire Hockey season. It is covered with Athletica "Ice Deck" for events during the hockey season.
• The ice at the Covelli Centre is 1" thick and maintained at 19 degrees for hockey and 24 degrees for Disney on Ice and Figure skating.
• There are approximately 7 miles of cooling pipes in the concrete floor under the ice.
• There are 4 visiting locker rooms/ dressing rooms and 2 Green Rooms for visiting teams and artists.
• The Covelli Centre will use 550 cubic yards of dirt for events such as PBR Rodeo to cover the performance area.