The Arvest Convention Center (formerly the Tulsa Assembly Center, Tulsa Convention Center, Maxwell Convention Center, and Cox Business Convention Center) is a 275,000 square foot

convention center A convention center (American and British English spelling differences, American English; or conference centre in British English) is a large building that is designed to hold a Convention (meeting), convention, where individuals and groups ...

located in

downtown Tulsa Downtown Tulsa is an area of approximately surrounded by an inner-dispersal loop created by Interstate 244, U.S. Route 64 in Oklahoma, US 64 and U.S. Route 75 in Oklahoma, US 75. The area serves as Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tulsa's financial and business ...

, Oklahoma. The Arvest Convention Center (ACC) was originally named Tulsa Assembly Center. It was later renamed Maxwell Convention Center after former mayor James L. Maxwell. In February 2013,

Cox Communications Cox Communications, Inc. (also known as Cox Cable and formerly Cox Broadcasting Corporation, Dimension Cable Services and Times-Mirror Cable), is an American digital cable television provider, telecommunications and home automation services comp ...

acquired the

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to the facility and renamed it the Cox Business Center. In 2020, "Convention" was added to the name. In 2025,

Arvest Bank Arvest Bank is a bank headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, with branches in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. It is the oldest bank in Arkansas and is on the list of largest banks in the United States. It is almost entirely owned by the ...

acquired the naming rights and renamed it to the Arvest Convention Center.

2018 CBCC's banquet hall renovation

The ACC began renovations to convert the arena into a banquet hall in 2018, with a scheduled completion date in 2020. The ACC's banquet hall was the largest in the state at 30,000 square feet. However, the venue's $55 million renovations replaced the arena with the Grand Hall, a second Banquet space of 41,470 square feet, and 38 foot ceilings. It also added a new South Plaza at the main entrance on the east side. This includes a three-story glass atrium, valet drop-off, and over 4,000 square feet of pre-function event space. The venue now offers over 275,000 square feet of total rentable space. The renovation is part of Vision Tulsa, a community improvement initiative funded by a 0.6% increased sales tax in Tulsa County.

BOK Center

The Bank of Oklahoma Center, or

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, which the City of Tulsa owns, is the sister venue to CBCC, with both being managed by Oak View Group. The BOK Center is a 19,199-seat arena and home to the ECHL

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. It also hosts major concerts and entertainment shows. It was designed to accommodate arena football, hockey, basketball, concerts, and similar events. The BOK is the former home of the

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of the

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and the

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of the

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. It cost $178 million in public funds to build, as well as $18 million in privately funded upgrades. The center was completed on August 30, 2008.

CBCC sport team history

The original Tulsa Roughnecks used the CBCC's building for indoor soccer in 1978. In November 2013, it became the home arena of the

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of the

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. The team relocated to the

Expo Square Pavilion The Expo Square Pavilion, sometimes called simply The Pavilion, and formerly known as the Tulsa Fairgrounds Pavilion, is a 6,311-seat multi-purpose arena, in the Tulsa State Fairgrounds in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was built in 1932; the architect was ...

in January 2015. The center was home to the

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ice hockey team and the

arena football team before the opening of the new BOK Center in 2008. It was a regular stop for

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' Mid-South Wrestling and its successor, the Universal Wrestling Federation, until shortly after the UWF was purchased by

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in 1987. It hosted the

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men's basketball tournament title game in 1982 and from 1984 to 1987. It was also the home to the

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team until the program moved to the

Reynolds Center Donald W. Reynolds Center is an 8,355-seat multi-purpose arena in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Designed by HOK Sport (now known as Populous Co.), the arena opened in 1998 and is named for Donald W. Reynolds. Located on the University of Tulsa campus, it is ...

in 1998. The

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circuit hosted a

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event at the Convention Center between 2005 and 2008; since 2009, the event has been held at the BOK Center. From 2009 through 2012, the Convention Center was the home arena for the

Tulsa 66ers Tulsa ( ) is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and the 48th-most-populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa ...

of the

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. In 2013, the team returned to the SpiritBank Event Center in nearby Bixby. In March 2012, the now-defunct

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of the

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played their first game at the arena.

Concerts

Several famous artists have performed at the center, including

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, and

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