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About the Team
As the Toronto Raptors approached their scheduled home opener at the SkyDome on November 3, 1995, club President John I. Bitove could congratulate himself on having pulled off a remarkable achievement. Bringing NBA basketball back to Toronto, where the long-forgotten Toronto Huskies had tipped off against the New York Knickerbockers in 1946, had been an arduous process, fraught with obstacle after obstacle. It had not been such a struggle a half-century ago, when the Huskies became a charter member of the Basketball Association of America, the forerunner of the NBA. In fact, Toronto had hosted the new league&s first game on November 1, 1946. The Toronto franchise folded at the end of the 1946-47 season, however, and the NBA wouldn&t return to Canada for nearly 50 years.
The current franchise traces its roots back to April 23, 1993, when the NBA announced that it had received a formal application from Professional Basketball Franchise. In July 1993 an NBA expansion committee, headed by Phoenix Suns owner Jerry Colangelo, came to Toronto to meet with the bid groups, examine their plans, and visit their proposed arena sites. The PBF contingent made an immediate impact, based upon its criteria for a downtown site: it was to be on the subway line-giving Torontonians access without having to fight winter conditions-and close to the financial core of the city to entice major businesses to buy corporate boxes, a key element in the financial plan of 1990s sport franchises. In the end, it was the arena plan that led the NBA expansion committee to recommend on September 30, 1993, that PBF be conditionally awarded a franchise for the 1995-96 season to become the 28th team in the league. It was agreed that Toronto would play its first two seasons in the SkyDome while its own building was being completed.
The battle was still far from over, however. There was a chance that the franchise agreement would be revoked over the thorny issue of an Ontario provincial betting game, Pro-Line, which among other things allowed bettors to wager on the outcome of NBA games. The league&s longstanding opposition to such a scheme ran up against the province&s unwillingness to do away with a game that could put some $100 million into Ontario&s coffers, some of it earmarked for hospitals. It took three months of sensitive negotiations involving the league, the PBF, and the province to resolve the dispute. The province finally acknowledged the boost an NBA team would provide to the local economy through taxes-$81 million the first year alone, according the the Metro Toronto Convention and Visitor Association-and the creation of 4,000 jobs necessitated by construction and related activities. The Toronto club took on responsibility for various youth and community programs in order to offset dropping basketball from the betting slips. For its part, the NBA, eager to gain the Toronto market and wanting to preserve good relations with its new constituency, contributed $1.5 million to medical research, donated $2 million in television time to promote tourism in Ontario, joined with the Toronto team to create a charitable foundation, and agreed to hold the 1995 NBA Draft in Toronto.
About the Stadium
Air Canada Centre opened Feb 1999. It is home to the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors and the Toronto Rock Lacrosse. Its NBA capacity is 19,800. It houses 1020 club seats, 40 platinum lounges, 65 executive suites and 16 loge suites. Themed concession stands, unique restaurants and kiosks offer a diverse food and beverage program, capturing the multicultural flavor of Toronto. The venue boasts three restaurants: the Air Canada Club, with a view of the arena, the Platinum Club, for fine dining, and the Hot Stove Club, a tradition transferred from Maple Leaf Gardens, as well as two bars. Air Canada Centre is one of only two sports arenas in Canada to house a Rickards Brewhouse. Rickard&s Red, Gold and Pale are brewed on site and served right here in Air Canada Centre. The arena is user-friendly, providing one per cent of fixed seating for the disabled and their companions. Accessible seating areas are strategically located throughout the building, providing maximum flexibility and pricing selection. Among other features, all public washrooms are wheelchair accessible with accommodating counter heights and lower urinals with grab bars. Food and beverage service counters are lowered to accessible service heights. There are over 13,000 parking spaces within immediate walking distance of the arena. In addition, the arena is just a two-minute walk from the Union Station with the GO Transit system of commuter trains as well as Toronto&s world-renowned TTC subway system.
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