Baton Rouge River Center

Baton Rouge River Center
Convention Center logo
Former names	Riverside Centroplex
General information
Location	Baton Rouge, Louisiana

The Baton Rouge River Center (when built in the late 1970s, it was called the Riverside Centroplex) is a municipally owned multi-purpose 200,000 square feet (20,000 m²) entertainment facility located on the Mississippi River in downtown Baton Rouge, the capital city of Louisiana.

It is maintained by a private management company, SMG, which presents more than five hundred events a year, including concerts, conventions, sporting events, trade shows and theater productions.

Performance and other facilities

Baton Rouge River Center

• Arena presents concerts, trade shows, sports and family shows, with seating for up to 12,000 for concerts, 8,500 for sporting events, and 4,500 for theatre events.

• Exhibition Hall, recently expanded with an additional 10,000 sq ft (1,000 m²). of exhibition space and providing a total of 70,000 square feet (7,000 m²). This can be combined with the Arena to create more than 100,000 square feet (10,000 m²) of contiguous exhibit space.

• Grand Ballroom provides 26,150 square feet (2,429 m²) of multi-purpose space.

• Theater for Performing Arts is a theatre seating up to 1,900 people. It is used for performances of theatre, musicals, and symphony orchestras.

Events held

former Riverside Centroplex logo

Past events held in the Riverside Centroplex / River Center arena include:

• WCW Clash of the Champions (January 27, 1994)
• WCW Slamboree (May 19, 1996)
• ECHL Baton Rouge Kingfish (1996–2003)
• IPFL Louisiana Bayou Beast (1999)
• WCW house show (non-televised) (May 30, 1999)
• WCW Thunder (October 14, 1999)
• af2 Baton Rouge Blaze (2001)
• WWE Raw (October 1, 2001)
• SmackDown and ECW (July 8, 2008)
• ECW house show (non-televised) (October 8, 2006)
• WWE SmackDown house show (January 22, 2007)
• WWE Raw house show (June 30, 2007)

Past events held in the Riverside Centroplex theatre:

• Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) house show (May 29, 1998 & October 7, 1999)

External links

• Baton Rouge River Center homepage

Coordinates: 30°26′41″N 91°11′22″W / 30.4448°N 91.1894°W / 30.4448; -91.1894