Community First Champion Center

Community First Champion Center
Logo
Main entrance gate
Interactive map of Community First Champion Center
Full name
Community First Champion Center Fox Cities
Address2200 North McCarthy Road
Grand Chute, Wisconsin, United States
Coordinates44°16′57″N 88°28′51″W / 44.28250°N 88.48083°W / 44.28250; -88.48083
OwnerTown of Grand Chute
Capacity~3,000 - 4,000 total across all 3 spaces
TypeMulti-purpose arena
EventsSporting events and concerts
ScoreboardYes
Construction
GroundbreakingSeptember 18, 2018
Built2018–2019
OpenedNovember 20, 2019; 6 years ago (2019-11-20)
Cost$30 million
($38.5 million in 2025 dollars)
ArchitectPerforma Architects
General contractor
Miron Construction
Website
championcenterwi.com

The Community First Champion Center is a 164,000 sq ft (15,200 m2) indoor sports center in Grand Chute, a suburb of Appleton in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The facility is primarily used for youth and community sporting events.

The sports center was expected to cost $30 million to build. The cost of construction was provided by a 3% hotel-room tax being charged throughout the Fox Cities region; this tax was also used to pay for the Fox Cities Exhibition Center. Shortly before its opening, it was expected to contribute around $8–12 million to the Fox Cities economy.

Location and design

The arena is located along County Highway GV just north of the Fox River Mall shopping district and less than .5 mi (0.80 km) west of Fox Cities Stadium. The new arena broke ground on September 18, 2018. It opened in November 2019.

The Center has three separate arena spaces with one being permanently set up with an ice rink and another two multi-purpose arenas which could handle court sports, concerts, or additional ice rinks. The total capacity of all three arenas is between 3,000 and 4,000.

History

On January 23, 2019, the center was the target of vandalism by a group of teenagers who damaged construction sites around the Appleton area and started fires in downtown parking ramp elevators. The damage to the center was expected to cost over $1 million.

On March 22, 2019, the Town of Grand Chute announced that the naming rights for the center were bought by Community First Credit Union; terms of the deal have not been released.

References

  1. ↑ "Check out the new Community First Champion Center". www.postcrescent.com. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  2. ↑ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Fox Cities Champion Center will give region a larger piece of sports tourism". Post-Crescent Media. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  4. 1 2 Steffen, Justin (22 March 2019). "Community First Champion Center Coming this Fall". WEAREGREENBAY. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "Fox Cities Champion Center holds ceremonial groundbreaking". WLUK. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  6. ↑ News, Monique Lopez, FOX 11 (November 20, 2019). "Multi-mullion-dollar sports complex opens in the Fox Valley". WLUK. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ Zimmerman, Jason. "Community First Champion Center opens". www.wbay.com.
  8. ↑ Behnke, Duke. "Champion Center in Grand Chute promises to be 'premier sports tourism destination in the Midwest'". The Post-Crescent.
  9. ↑ "Our Facility". Fox Cities Champion Center. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  10. ↑ "New photos of Fox Cities Champion Center damage released". WLUK. 25 January 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.