TEXAS ARENA

TEXAS ARENA
Fast facts
Details of the Rio Grande Valley Events Center in Hidalgo, Texas, which the city of Youngstown is studying as a model of an arena to build downtown:
Web site is www.rgveventscenter.com.
Building is due to open in October.
A Central Hockey League team, the Killer Bees, is the main tenant.
Seating is 5,500 for hockey and 7,500 for concerts.
Cost is $20 million.
Twenty-four luxury boxes are sold out.
Five hundred club seats are sold out.
City population is 7,000. County population is 600,000. One million people live within 95 miles. An additional 2 million live across the nearby border in Mexico.
Source: Paul Davis, general manager, Rio Grande Valley Events Center