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 Fayetteville Marksmen

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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 ADA, 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 Bill Coffey who had signed an exclusive lease agreement with the arena for the Fayetteville Force 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.

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taped its annual ''Tribute to the Troops'' show at the venue on December 11, 2011. Fayetteville native rapper J. Cole'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

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, January 9, 2016.

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