The Crown Complex (originally the Cumberland County Crown Coliseum) is a multi-purpose venue in

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that includes the Crown Coliseum, an indoor stadium. The stadium broke ground in 1995 and opened in 1997, and is currently home to the

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team. The Coliseum replaced the Crown Arena in the same complex as the main venue for sports events. The complex also contains a 2,400-seat auditorium named the Crown Theater and a 4,500-seat venue named Crown Arena, both of which were built in the 1960s. On January 22, 2020,

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's commissioner announced that the Crown Arena and Crown Theater would close in October 2022 due to the venues' non-compliance with the

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, but would not affect the Coliseum. The closing was pushed back to November 2025. During the early stages of its construction, Crown Coliseum was mentioned as a possible temporary home for the NHL's

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, but this was blocked by minor league hockey executive

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who had signed an exclusive lease agreement with the arena for the

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of the

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. It was reported in mid-January that

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would be taping its weekly

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broadcast in the arena on February 24, 2011 — which would be only the second time in its history that the show would be broadcast outside Universal Studio's iMPACT! zone in Orlando, Florida. WWE taped its annual ''Tribute to the Troops'' show at the venue on December 11, 2011. Fayetteville native rapper

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's '' Forest Hills Drive: Live'' and his

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, ''Forest Hills Drive: Homecoming'' was recorded at the arena on August 30, 2015, during his Forest Hills Drive Tour. ''Forest Hills Drive: Homecoming'' aired on HBO, January 9, 2016.

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