Official website (https://xiaomi-arena.com/)
Key facts
- Former names
- Arena Riga (2006–2025)
- Location
- Riga , Latvia
- Owner
- Glesum Investments
- Capacity
- 14,500 (concerts), 11,200 (basketball), 10,300 (ice hockey)
- Groundbreaking
- 17 June 2004
- Built
- 1 February 2006
- Opened
- 15 February 2006
- Construction cost
- Ls 20 million, EUR € 28.5 million
- Architect
- SCI Architects SIA Merks SIA Nams
- General contractor
- SIA Merks
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Xiaomi Arena, formerly known as Arena Riga (Latvian: Xiaomi Arēna) is an indoor arena in Riga, Latvia. It is primarily used for ice hockey, basketball and concerts. Arena holds a maximum of 14,500 and was opened on 15 February 2006.
It was built to be used as one of the venues for the 2006 IIHF World Championship, the other being Skonto Arena. The arena was designed by the Canadian company Stadium Consultants International (SCI Architects) and Latvian firms SIA Merks and SIA Nams.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xiaomi Arena” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.