Mercer Arena, previously known as the Exposition Building, the Civic Ice Arena and Seattle Center Arena, is a performing arts venue located at the corner of Mercer Street Fourth Avenue North in Seattle, Washington. It was built in 1912 next door to the Seattle Civic Auditorium (where the Seattle Opera House is now located), as part of the $1 million Seattle Center. The venue predates Seattle Center Coliseum by about 35 years.
Read more about Mercer Arena: Origins and Usage As A Venue (1928-2003), Redevelopment (2007-present)
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“You’ve got to
Accent-tchu-ate the positive.”
—Johnny Mercer (1909–1976)
“... often the empowering strategies we use in the arena of love and friendship are immediately dropped when we come into the arena of politicized difference—when in fact some of those strategies are useful and necessary.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)