Pittsburgh Civic Arena

Civic Arena (formerly the Civic Auditorium and Mellon Arena, nicknamed The Igloo) was an arena located in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Civic Arena primarily served as the home to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the city's National Hockey League (NHL) franchise, from 1967 to 2010. It was the first retractable roof major-sports venue in the world, covering 170,000 sq. feet and constructed with nearly 3,000 tons of Pittsburgh steel, and supported solely by a massive 260-foot-long cantilevered arm on the exterior. Even though it was designed and engineered as a retractable-roof dome, the hydraulic jacks never functioned consistently, thus keeping the roof permanently closed in 1994, after filming of Sudden Death was finished production.
World Wrestling Entertainment has frequently been to the Arena over the years. WWE Raw and WWE SmackDown have taken place there. Six pay-per-views have also taken place at the Mellon Arena: SummerSlam 1995, King of the Ring 1998, Unforgiven 2001, No Way Out 2005, Armageddon 2007, and the final pay-per-view; WWE Bragging Rights in 2009. The final WWE event was Raw on May 10, 2010.
==Events==
==External links==
* Pittsburgh Civic Arena at Wikipedia
* [ Pittsburgh Civic Arena at Pro Fight DB]
Category:Arenas
Category:Venues in United States