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The Denny Sanford Premier Center is an
indoor arena An arena is a large enclosed platform, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre, Music, musical performances, or Sport, sporting events. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating f ...
in
Sioux Falls Sioux Falls () is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the 130th-most populous city in the United States. It is the county seat of Minnehaha County and also extends into Lincoln County to the south, which continues up ...
,
South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who comprise a large portio ...
. The building is located at 1201 North West Avenue, and is connected to the Sioux Falls Arena and Sioux Falls Convention Center. The Arena's naming rights partners, and largest sponsors, are
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, First Premier Bank and
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. Completed in 2014, the arena has a seating capacity of approximately 12,000 spectators and replaces the DakotaDome and
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as the largest indoor venue in South Dakota. The Sioux Falls Arena hosts smaller concerts and events, while the Denny Sanford Premier Center hosts large scale concerts and sporting events.


History

A replacement of the Sioux Falls Arena had been discussed since 1999, with numerous task forces formed and studies completed to determine the need for a new events center. The Sioux Falls Arena was built in 1961 when the population of Sioux Falls was 65,000. By 2000, the population had nearly doubled to 124,000 while updates to the Arena were few and far between. After years of arguments and meetings, the new events center was put to a public vote in a special election on November 8, 2011. By a vote of 23,284 to 16,807, Sioux Falls citizens passed the events center special ballot, allowing design and construction of a new events center to begin. Breaking ground in 2014, it was built on the west side of the Sioux Falls Convention Center.


Events

The first concert,
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and Starship featuring Mickey Thomas was held on September 24, 2014. On October 3, 2014,
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and
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performed with
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. Slipknot, along with guests
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and opening band
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, performed as part of the "Prepare for Hell" tour on November 9, 2014. Eric Church and
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performed at the venue on December 6, 2014 as part of The Outsiders World Tour. The Premier Center hosts the Summit League men's and women's basketball tournaments every year in March. The winners receive automatic berths in the
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men's and women's tournaments. The arena also hosts the Sioux Falls Stampede of the
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and the Sioux Falls Storm of the
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. From 2015 to 2017, the
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(PBR) association hosted an annual
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event. Since 2017 the PBR has hosted an
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event at the Premier Center, known as the First Premier Bank/Premier Bankcard Invitational.
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and
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brought their three and half year world tour to the arena for nine sold out concerts in September 2017.
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brought her Rock This Country Tour to the arena on September 23, 2015. She returned for her Shania Now Tour on May 16, 2018.
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performed there with his band.
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kicked off the Midwest leg of his One on One Tour at the arena on May 2, 2016. This marked his first performance in South Dakota as well as McCartney's first-ever performance as a solo artist of "A Hard Day's Night" and the first time the song was performed by a Beatle in half a century since the Beatles played it for the last time on 31 August 1965 at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California.


References


External links


Official websiteCity of Sioux Falls websiteSioux Falls Sports Authority website
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