TD Park , often called the second Boston Garden or simply, The Garden , is a multi-purpose arena in Boston, Massachusetts. It was named after its sponsor, TD Bank, a subsidiary of Toronto-Dominion Bank Canada. Opened in 1995 as a substitute for the original Boston Park and has been known as FleetCenter , and TD Banknorth Garden . The arena is located just above the MBTA North Station.
TD Garden is the home arena for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League and Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. The company is owned by Delaware North, whose CEO, Jeremy Jacobs, also owns the Bruins family. This is where Beanpot's annual college hockey tournament, and hosts the annual East Hockey Championships. The Arena also hosts many national sporting events including the NCAA I and Regional Busses I divisions in 1999 and 2003 for the first and second rounds, 2009, 2012 and 2018 Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight, Frozen Four 1998, Frozen Four 2004, 2014 Championships Skating Figure United States, Final Four Women 2006 and Frozen Four 2015. It hosts 3, 4 and 6 games from the Final Stanley Cup 2011 and 2013 Stanley Cup Finals for the Bruins, and games 1, 2 and 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals and 3, 4, and 5 games from the 2010 NBA Final for the Celtics. Furthermore, he organized the NALCS 2017 Summer Split Finals.
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History
Planning
In the early 1970s, the Bru family was looking for a new arena. The Boston park was close to 50 years old at the time and the new owners, the Jacobs family, were looking to build a 17,000-seat arena in the suburbs of Boston after negotiations fell through with the City of Boston. Tim almost moved to Salem, New Hampshire around the Mall place in Rockingham Park right now. It failed and the Bruins continued to be in Boston Garden. The Celtics, also looking for a new arena, is considered a move to Revere, Massachusetts.
In 1985, the owner of Boston Garden Delaware North was awarded the right to build a new arena by the Boston Redevelopment Authority and Mayor Raymond Flynn. However, poor economic conditions slowed the project.
On May 8, 1992, Delaware North announced that it had secured funding for the new arena, in the form of a $ 120 million loan split evenly between Bank of Boston, Fleet Bank of Massachusetts and Shawmut National Corporation. In December, a bill that approved the construction of a new arena was killed in the Massachusetts Senate by Senate President William M. Bulger. Legislative and Northern Delaware leaders sought to reach agreement on a plan for a new arena, but in February 1993, Northern Delaware owner Jeremy Jacobs announced that he supported the project as a result of legislative demands that his company pay $ 3.5 million in "linkage payments". Later-the Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld gave strong support to a "Chapter 15" legislation that included "section 7" which mandated Jeremy Jacobs of Delaware North to, as the law calls it, "" organize, produce, promote and sponsor no less of three charity activities per year at New Boston Garden "and pay the proceeds from such events to the previously named Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Department now two weeks later, after a series of new negotiations, the second the parties finally reached an agreement, and on February 26 the Legislature passed a bill allowing the construction of a new sporting arena.
Construction
Construction began on 29 April 1993. Plans for the new arena state that it will be slightly north of the old facility. The term "slightly north" ends up meaning that there are only nine inches (23 cm) of space between two buildings when construction is completed. The site for the new arena occupies 3.2 hectares (13,000 m 2 ). Finally cost $ 160 million. In 27 months, quickly by today's standards, the arena is built. That includes a seven-week delay caused by heavy snowfall.
Naming
During the construction phase, naming rights for "New Park" were sold to Boston-based Shawmut Bank, and the arena was originally scheduled to open as Shawmut Center. However, when the arena is being finalized, the sponsorship name "New Garden", Shawmut, disappears after a bank merger with Fleet Financial Group. Shortly before the new arena is opened, every seat, which has been stamped with the Shawmut logo, must be replaced. In addition, the entire color scheme for the interior must be adjusted from blue-white to green and Fleet gold. Arena opened on 30 September 1995.
The name of the arena is expected to change as a result of the April 1, 2004 merger of FleetBoston Financial with Bank of America. On January 5, 2005, Delaware North announced an agreement under which the bank made a payment to be exempt from the remaining six years on a naming rights treaty. The agreement makes Northern Delaware free to sell naming rights to other sponsors. On March 3, 2005, TD Banknorth, based in Maine, a subsidiary of Toronto-Dominion Bank USA, announced the purchase of a naming rights of $ 6 million per year. The first major event after the announcement was the Hockey Son Ice Hockey Tournament of 2005.
The company named the facility "TD Banknorth Garden" in honor of the original Boston Park. The official name became TD Banknorth Garden on July 1, 2005. Prior to that date, its name was under the name "YourGarden".
In early 2005, while still looking for long-term corporate sponsors, FleetCenter auctioned on eBay to sell naming rights one day. From February 10 to March 13, FleetCenter sells 30 different naming rights on eBay. The net proceeds of $ 150,633.22 generated during the auction were donated to a charity in the Greater Boston area. FleetCenter also makes personal arrangements with several companies for naming rights one day, and offers one-day rights in employee sweepstakes.
During the auction name, only twice the name was reported rejected. Kerry Konrad, a New York City lawyer and Yankees fan, won the naming rights for March 1 with a $ 2,300 bid. He proposed the name of "Derek Jeter Center", after the shortstop of the New York Yankees, a stab at a fellow alumnus of Harvard College and Boston Red Sox fan Jerry Rappaport, Jr., with whom he had a 25-year competition. Being in the heart of the Red Sox Nation, the name does not sit well with executives and is rejected. An agreement was reached in which Rappaport added $ 6300 for a total offer of $ 8600, representing 86 years of the Bambino Curse, and named the "New Boston Park, Jimmy Fund Winner's Garden" arena. Fark.com founder Drew Curtis held a contest on his website to name the arena after he bought the rights one day. User voting resulted in "UFIA Center Fark.com" appeared above, but the name was rejected for improper means. The name Curtis and company ultimately chose was "Boston Garden".
- Including the current name, Taman TD has 33 different names.
- The Celtics player called it "The Jungle" during the 2002 team playoffs.
In April 2008, TD Banknorth became TD Bank, following a merger with Commerce Bancorp, a New Jersey-based bank. The owner of Delaware North Companies announced on April 15, 2009, that the building will be renamed TD Garden in July 2009.
Remodeling
Before the 2006-2007 season, TD Park underwent major improvements, installing new HD entertainment boards. For basketball, the video ad panel (installed by the NCAA for Final Final 2006) replaces the traditional scroll bar, and adds a transparent clock, joined FedExForum, Wells Fargo Center, Philips Arena, Talking Stick Resort Arena, United Center, Quicken Loans Arena and Spectrum (this was done before the NBA mandate was installed in 2011). In addition, vintage sirens, such as those used by Boston Garden earlier, were added to replace the horn-end period for hockey, a feature of the Montreal Canadiens, the Bruins arch enemy, the Montreal Forum (now the Pepsi Forum shopping center) and the Bell Center today. In 2009, LED energy-saving lighting systems were added to the exterior of the building. The Boston Globe announced an increase of a $ 70 million project to the TD Garden concourses and Legends Club restaurant, along with technological improvements and the relocation of retail stores. Construction takes place in two phases, summer 2014 and then summer 2015.
On January 25, 2013, during the Celtics vs match. Knicks in the Park, television broadcaster Marv Albert accused TD Garden's production crew as one of the "continuous" arenas using fake sound effects to intensify audience reaction in nationally televised games (which are very similar to "sweetener" on television); however, the official Celtics Twitter account states that the Celtics have never used artificial crowd noise. Following their final Stanley Cup Finals 2011 win, the Bruins converted their previous Stanley Cup banners to reflect on the team's key logo changes over the past five wins of their Cup, as the logo now adorns the 2011 Cup Win banner.
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Use
Among non-sport events organized by the Garden are concerts, performances, graduations, seminars, Disney on Ice, circuses, and rehearsals for Northeastern University.
Sports
The Arena is primarily a home place for the Boston Celtics NBA and Boston Bruins NHL. It has hosted the 1996 NHL All-Star Game, NBA Finals 2008 and 2010, and the Stanley Cup Final of 2011 and 2013. While dominant in their previous arena, Boston Garden, the Celtics and the Bruins were initially less successful in their new homes as both teams missed the playoffs several times and failed to make their league finals final until 2008. That year the Celtics beat arch- they rival the Los Angeles Lakers in six games, winning the 2008 NBA championship at the Park. The Bruins overcame the Vancouver Canucks in seven games to win the 2011 Stanley Cup, winning all matches in the Park with a slant score (8-1, 4-0, and 5-2) and then take the championship down the road at the Rogers Arena. In the 2013 Stanley Cup playoff round, the Bruins overcame a 4-1 deficit in the decisive Game 7 against Toronto Maple Leafs to win 5-4 in extra time, en route to the Final; Chicago Blackhawks lifted the Stanley Cup in the Park after an amazing comeback in Game Six's final minutes.
From 28 March - 3 April 2016, TD Garden hosts the World Football World Championship 2016.
Eddie Palladino is the current public address announcer for the Celtics game, while Jim Martin is a public address announcer for Bruins games. Ron Poster is an arena player.
As Boston Garden had done from 1954 to 1995 - and Matthews Arena still standing for commencement in 1952 - TD Park is home to the annual Beanpot college hockey tournament between Boston Terriers University, Boston College Eagles, Harvard Crimson University and Northeastern University Huskies. The facility has hosted the 2001 US Figure Skating Championships, US and 2000 Gymnastics Trials, and NCAA Men's Frozen Four in 1998, 2004 and 2015.
The middle school championships and tournaments for the Athletic Association of Interscholastic Massachusetts are held annually at TD Garden. Events include ice hockey and basketball championships. Super Eight is one of the popular events attended by fans and students.
TD Garden is one of two NBA arenas (along with Amway Center, home of the Orlando Magic) with parquet floors. The Celtics are renowned for the tradition of parquet floors from the years of their Boston Gardens, originally built after World War II due to the cost and scarcity of timber at that time. The Celtics are also the only NBA team to use oak flooring, while 29 other teams use maple floors. However, the traditional flooring is used in the 2006 NCAA Women's Final, Regional NCAA Eastern Men in 2009 and the Eastern Area NCAA of 2017 (NCAA Rules require specific NCAA flooring specifications to be used for all tournament matches). When the NCAA Men's East Regional 2012 is held at TD Garden, the maple parquet floor is used with the same design of the same NCAA.
Ricky Hatton started his 'American dream' here on May 13, 2006, he stepped into welterweight against WBA world champion Luis Collazo. After dropping Collazo after a few seconds into the first half, Hatton was made to work hard to get a point round victory.
Mixed martial art
In August 2010, TD Park hosted UFC 118, which was the first time UFC held an event in Boston. UFC President Dana White insists that UFC will return to The Garden on August 17, 2013. TD Garden hosts UFC at Fox Sports 1: 1, the launch of the new Fox Sports 1 cable channel, on August 17, 2013. This second UFC event takes place at TD Garden. UFC back on January 18, 2015 for UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Siver, and again on January 17, 2016 for UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs. Cruz. On January 20, 2018, TD Garden hosted the UFC 220.
Concert
Since its opening in 1995, more than 30 million people have come to TD Park to see famous tenants in the arena, NHL Boston Bruins and Boston Celtics NBA, as well as concerts, sporting events, family events, world-famous wrestling, ice shows and more. Home to about 200 public events each year, TD Park hosts more than 3.5 million people each year.
In Movies
Garden TD has been seen/mentioned in movies such as The Town, 2010, Knight and Day (2010), Zookeeper (2011), and < i> Ted (2012)
More events
Comedians like Tim Allen, Denis Leary, Chris Rock and Louis C.K., among many others, have performed at TD Park during their national tour. Dane Cook performs two performance shows.
On July 26 to July 29, 2004, TD Park (later Fleet Center) was host to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, where then Massachusetts Senator John Kerry was nominated as a Democratic candidate for the 2004 Presidential Election. The convention is also renowned for Senator's and future speeches President Barack Obama who started speculation about him running for president in the 2008 Presidential Election.
Hub on Causeway
In May 2013, Delaware North Companies and Boston Properties proposed plans to build a 3-tower multipurpose structure at the original location of Boston Garden. The complex will include 1,870,000 square feet (174,000 m 2 ), of which 300,000 square feet (28,000 m 2 ) will be allocated to retail space and 600,000 square feet (56,000 m 2 ) for commercial office. It will also include 500 housing units, a 200-room hotel, and an 800-space underground parking garage. Construction begins at the end of 2015. The project is completed in three phases. The first phase is a podium that includes shopping, entertainment, dining, new access to the Green Line MBTA North Line and Orange Line, and a new entrance to TD Garden and the North Station. It also includes an expansion to the existing North Garage Station that sits under North Station and TD Park. The second phase includes two buildings built on the western side of the podium. One building will be an apartment, the other is a hotel. The third phase is an office building that will sit on the east side of the podium.
Community fundraising controversy
In the spring of 2017, a group of local teenagers investigated the terms of the original TD Garden development agreement, and concluded that the owners never fulfilled the legal requirements to host three fundraisers a year to benefit agents overseeing Boston's recreation facilities. In mid-August 2017, the Massachusetts governor at TD Garden's original construction, Bill Weld, reminded Jeremy Jacobs of the deal he made with the state government in 1993 about the agreement. As a result, in August 2017, TD Park agreed to pay Massachusetts Conservation and Recreation Department nearly $ 2 million.
Features
Statue
In May 2010, Bruins bronze statue defenseman Bobby Orr, in a famous flying pose celebrating "The Goal", was unveiled outside the stadium.
Museum
Located in TD Garden is The Sports Museum (also known as "The Sports Museum of New England"). The museum exhibits focus on the history of various sports in the Boston area, including Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics, New England Patriots, Boston Red Sox and more.
Facilities
Just like Boston Park, TD Park is built over Boston's North Station, the main transport hub. The Commuter Rail waiting area becomes crowded during the event due to this design: fans share a relatively small area with commuters and some fast food concessions. (There is a concourse on the second floor which is roughly the same as the former main ground floor, but this is only used as an entrance for the arena.) The work was completed at the expansion of the North Station concourse in early 2007. A new, larger, railroad gives passengers railway waiting area that does not disturb customers entering or leaving the park.
Connections to the Orange Line and Green Line near the eastern entrance to the Park. The Green line ran on Causeway Road Elevated in front of the building until the tunnel underneath it opened in June 2004. The previously used elevation was used as a platform for security forces during the 2004 Democratic National Convention, later destroyed slightly later.
Awards and acknowledgments
This arena has been recognized by many industry publications as one of the top arenas in the country. The industry publication Arena Venues Today rated TD Garden as the No. arena. 3 in the country for 2006. In addition, Taman TD has been recognized with the latest awards and achievements as follows:
- 2007 TD Garden was selected as the finalist of the National Sports Forum Achievement Award
- 2008 TD Garden receives EPA Award
- 2009 Nominated for Sports Facility of the Year by Journal of Sports Business
See also
- Matthews Arena, formerly the Boston Arena, the original home arena of the Bruins, was built in 1910 and is still in use
- List of indoor arenas by capacity
References
External links
- TD Park
- TD Park in SeatGeek
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