SMG (property management)

SMG, formerly Spectacor Management Group, was an American worldwide venue management group headquartered in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, that specialized in managing publicly owned facilities. It began their operation in 1977 with management of the Louisiana Superdome. It was one of the largest property management corporations in the world.Live Nation Among Bidders to Buy Venue Giant SMG

SMG was a joint venture in general partnership form with two equal principals, The Hyatt Hotel Company and Aramark Corporation. SMG was bought by American Capital in 2007 for US$631 million,Reports: American Capital buys SMG and American Capital was sold to Ares Management in January 2017. Ares Management sold SMG to Onex Corporation in 2017. In October 2019, SMG and AEG Facilities merged to make a new company called ASM Global.

Properties managed

Arenas

Canada Hershey Centre, Mississauga, Ontario Meridian Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario Canalta Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta Avenir Centre, Moncton, New Brunswick

United Kingdom Odyssey Arena, Belfast Manchester Arena, Manchester Utilita Arena, Newcastle First Direct Arena, Leeds Baths Hall, Scunthorpe Connexin Live Arena, Hull P&J Live, Aberdeen

Germany König Pilsener Arena, Oberhausen

Norway Oslo Spektrum, Oslo

United Arab Emirates The Palladium, Dubai

Puerto Rico

José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, San Juan Puerto Rico Convention Center, San Juan

United States

California

Citizens Business Bank Arena, Ontario, California Fresno Convention Center, Fresno, California Greek Theatre (Los Angeles), Los Angeles, California Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California Rabobank Arena, Bakersfield, California Save Mart Center, Fresno, California Selland Arena, Fresno, California Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, California Stockton Arena, Stockton, California

Southwest

American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, Texas AT&T Center, San Antonio, Texas Ford Arena, Beaumont, Texas Laredo Entertainment Center, Laredo, Texas McLane Stadium, Waco, Texas NRG Arena, Houston, Texas BOK Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City

Midwest

BMO Harris Bank Center, Rockford, Illinois Canton Memorial Civic Center, Canton, Ohio Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, Illinois Century Center, South Bend, Indiana Corbin Arena, Corbin, Kentucky

The Pyramid, Memphis, Tennessee Dow Event Center, Saginaw, Michigan E.A. Diddle Arena, Bowling Green, Kentucky Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center, Pikeville, Kentucky Five Flags Center, Dubuque, Iowa Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio Ford Idaho Center, Nampa, Idaho Intrust Bank Arena, Wichita, Kansas Landon Arena, Topeka, Kansas Mid-America Center, Council Bluffs, Iowa Sioux Falls Arena, Sioux Falls, South Dakota U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, Minnesota Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, Michigan Wintrust Arena, Chicago, Illinois Wolstein Center, Cleveland, Ohio

Northeast

Cambria County War Memorial Arena, Johnstown, Pennsylvania DCU Center, Worcester, Massachusetts Dunkin' Donuts Center, Providence, Rhode Island Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh SNHU Arena, Manchester, New Hampshire Sovereign Center, Reading, Pennsylvania Times Union Center, Albany, New York

Southeast

Infinite Energy Arena, Duluth, Georgia BB&T Center, Sunrise, Florida Big Sandy Superstore Arena, Huntington, West Virginia Cabarrus Arena, Concord, North Carolina CenturyLink Center, Bossier City, Louisiana Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Florence Civic Center, Florence, South Carolina John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, Virginia North Charleston Coliseum, North Charleston, South Carolina VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, Florida Mobile Civic Center, Mobile, Alabama Pensacola Civic Center, Pensacola, Florida River Center Arena, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, Virginia Silver Spurs Arena, Kissimmee, Florida Smoothie King Center, New Orleans

Northwest

Carlson Center, Fairbanks, Alaska Sullivan Arena, Anchorage, Alaska ShoWare Center, Kent, Washington

Convention centers

Canada Direct Energy Centre, Toronto

Mexico World Trade Center México, Mexico City

United States Albuquerque Convention Center Albuquerque, New Mexico American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, Texas Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Cambria County War Memorial, Johnstown, Pennsylvania Charleston Area Convention Center, Charleston, South Carolina Charlotte Harbor Event and Conference Center, Punta Gorda, Florida Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado Cox Business Services Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Dayton Airport Exposition Center, Vandalia, Ohio DeVos Place Convention Center Grand Rapids, Michigan Fresno Convention Center, Fresno, California Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio Hampton Roads Convention Center, Hampton, Virginia Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii Huntington Place, Detroit, Michigan Irving Convention Center, Irving, Texas Jekyll Island Convention Center, Jekyll Island, Georgia Judson F. Williams Convention Center, El Paso, Texas Kansas Expocentre, Topeka, Kansas Knoxville Convention Center, Knoxville, Tennessee Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California Lynnwood Convention Center, Lynnwood, Washington McCormick Place, Chicago Meadowlands Exposition Center, Secaucus, New Jersey Memphis Cook Convention Center, Memphis, Tennessee Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida Mobile Convention Center, Mobile, Alabama Moscone Center, San Francisco, California Mountain America Exposition Center, Sandy, Utah Nassau County Expo Center, Uniondale, New York NRG Center, Houston, Texas Old National Events Plaza, Evansville, Indiana Ontario Convention Center, Ontario, California Osceola Heritage Park, Kissimmee, Florida Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, California Palmetto Expo Center, Greenville, South Carolina Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, Illinois Pontchartrain Center, Kenner, Louisiana Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center, Jacksonville, Florida Raising Cane's River Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, Rhode Island Salt Palace Convention Center , Salt Lake City Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, Savannah, Georgia Shreveport Convention Center, Shreveport, Louisiana Valdez Hall, Fresno, California Wildwoods Convention Center, Wildwood, New Jersey William A. Egan Civic & Convention Center, Anchorage, Alaska

Stadiums

United States TIAA Bank Field, Jacksonville, Florida Banner Island Ballpark, Stockton, California Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana Astrodome, Houston, Texas NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas Soldier Field, Chicago Stadium, at Devon and Kedzie, Chicago U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Poland Stadion Miejski, Wrocław

Theatres

United Kingdom Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre, Newcastle Playhouse, Whitley Bay

Germany Theatro Centro, Oberhausen

United States Abraham Chavez Theatre, El Paso, Texas Altria Theater, Richmond, Virginia Bob Hope Theatre, Stockton, California Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, Memphis, Tennessee Center Theatre, Long Beach, California Colorado Convention Center Theater, Denver, Colorado Dominion Energy Center, Richmond, Virginia Evansville Auditorium, Evansville, Indiana Fisher Theater, Ames, Iowa Genesee Theatre, Waukegan, Illinois Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts, Miami Beach, Florida Jacoby Symphony Hall (Jacksonville, Florida) Jefferson Performing Arts Center (Metairie, Louisiana) Kiva Auditorium, Albuquerque, New Mexico Moran Theater, Jacksonville, Florida Morris Jefferson, Sr. Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, Louisiana National Theatre, Washington, D.C. North Charleston Performing Arts Center, North Charleston, South Carolina Orpheum Theater, Sioux Falls, South Dakota Plaza Theatre, El Paso, Texas River Center Theater for Performing Arts, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Saenger Theatre, Pensacola, Florida Saroyan Theatre, Fresno, California Selena Auditorium at the American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, Texas Sinatra Theatre, Sunrise, Florida Stephens Auditorium, Ames, Iowa Terrace Theater, Long Beach, California Terry Theater, Jacksonville, Florida Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg, Florida Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, Jacksonville, Florida Victory Theatre, Evansville, Indiana William A. Egan Center Theater, Anchorage, Alaska

Other venues

Germany Loreley Amphitheatre, Sankt Goarshausen

United States Aquarium of the Pacific Long Beach, California Ben Boeke Ice Rink, Anchorage, Alaska Claremore Expocenter, Claremore, Oklahoma Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, California Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary, North Carolina Lamar-Dixon Expo Center, Gonzales, Louisiana McFetridge Sports Center, Chicago Mesker Amphitheatre, Evansville, Indiana Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex, Austin, Texas Navy Pier, Chicago Oak Park Ice Arena, Stockton, California Rye Airfield, Rye, New Hampshire Stockton Downtown Marina, Stockton, California

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