East Rutherford Meadowlands Arena
Meadowlands Arena, formerly known as Brendan Byrne Arena, Continental Airlines Arena and Izod Center, is an indoor arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The arena is located across the highway from the MetLife Stadium and the Meadowlands Racetrack, next to the American Dream shopping and entertainment complex. It's capacity sits at just over 20,000. Meadowlands Arena opened in 1981 and served as home to teams such as New Jersey Nets of NBA, New Jersey Devils of NHL and New Jersey Rockets of MISL.
With the opening of Prudential Center in 2007, the arena slowly started loosing all of it's major tenants. In 2015, the arena primarily served as a venue for concerts, ice shows and graduation ceremonies. Despite New Jersey's government exploring options of selling or leasing the arena and a negotiation attempt with Triple Five Group, the arena reported losses for 2013 and in 2015, NJSEA voted to close the arena.
Despite the arena being non-operational, it is still used as a rehearsal venue for large-scale touring productions and is also used as a sound-stage for tv productions. In 2018, NBC leased the arena to film prime-time TV series.
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Venue address
Meadowlands Arena
50 NJ-120
Meadowlands Sports Complex
East Rutherford, NJ 07073