Northwest Arena is a multi-purpose

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. It hosts local sporting events and concerts. It is the home of the

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junior hockey team in the

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. It has been the home of two short-lived minor league hockey teams: the

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of the

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in 2003-04 and the

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of the

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in 2007–08. It served as the home of the junior hockey

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from 2008 to 2011, also hosting the 2009 UJHL All Star Game, and occasionally hosts training camp for the

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. From 2011 to 2013, the arena was the home of the

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, a

organization; from 2014 to 2018, the Southern Tier Xpress of the NA3HL resided in the arena. Today, it is home to the

, another NAHL team. The capacity of the "Arena A" for hockey is 1,900 people; arena management explored expanding that capacity to 3,000 seats to lure a professional franchise, but this proposal was never accepted. An expansion of the facility that took place between 2018 and 2021 did not add any additional seating capacity. The Arena has recently played host to a number of major concerts including: Kenny Rogers Christmas & Hits Tour, Clint Black, Michael W. Smith, YES & ASIA, Aaron Tippin, Aids in Africa World Village Tour, World Famous Lipizanner Stallions 40th Anniversary, Golden Gloves Boxing, Buffalo Sabres Alumni. The arena is one of several venues that was utilized for

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's hosting of the

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. The arena hosted exhibition games before the tournament proper began.

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to the arena have been held by

Northwest Bank Northwest Bank is a bank headquartered in Warren, PA. It is the leading subsidiary of Northwest Bancshares, Inc., a bank holding company. It operates 170 branches in central and western Pennsylvania, western New York, eastern Ohio, and Indiana. ...

since the arena's inception. Until 2016, the arena was known as Jamestown Savings Bank Arena, as the five Jamestown branches of the bank had operated as "Jamestown Savings Bank" since 1998.

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