Naming Rights For Closed Venues
- Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, USA (demolished December 8, 2005)
- Cinergy Field in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (demolished December 29, 2002)
- Compaq Center in Houston, Texas, USA (closed as a sports facility in December 2003; now the main worship center for Lakewood Church)
- Estadio Corona (original) in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico (demolished November 2, 2009)
- Houlihan's Stadium in Tampa, Florida, USA (demolished 1999)
- Mazda CP Mine Circuit in Mine, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan (closed in February 2006, became a private testing site when it was sold to its sponsor, now Mine Proving Grounds)
- Labatt Park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (proposed in 2000, but never built)
- McCain Stadium in Scarborough, England (closed May 2007; still standing, but damaged in an October 2008 fire)
- RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (demolished December 20, 2008)
- Reliant Astrodome in Houston, Texas, USA (closed 2004)
- US Airways Arena in Landover, Maryland, USA (demolished December 15, 2002)
- Wachovia Spectrum (formerly CoreStates Specturm, and later FirstUnion Spectrum) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA (closed October 31, 2009; demolition came in 2011.)
- WesBank Raceway in Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa (closed to be demolished)
Read more about this topic: List Of Sports Venues With Sole Naming Rights
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“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“In the course of the actual attainment of selfish ends—an attainment conditioned in this way by universality—there is formed a system of complete interdependence, wherein the livelihood, happiness, and legal status of one man is interwoven with the livelihood, happiness, and rights of all. On this system, individual happiness, etc. depend, and only in this connected system are they actualized and secured.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“Don: Why are they closed? They’re all closed, every one of them.
Pawnbroker: Sure they are. It’s Yom Kippur.
Don: It’s what?
Pawnbroker: It’s Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday.
Don: It is? So what about Kelly’s and Gallagher’s?
Pawnbroker: They’re closed, too. We’ve got an agreement. They keep closed on Yom Kippur and we don’t open on St. Patrick’s.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)