The BI-LO Center is an arena located in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. Currently, the arena mainly hosts concerts, however, once it was also used for basketball and ice hockey games. The BI-LO Center was built in 1998 at a cost of US$63 million to replace Greenville's outdated and under-repaired Greenville Memorial Auditorium.
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The arena was named BI-LO Center, after a regional grocery store chain headquartered in the Greenville area that paid for the arena's naming rights. When it was built, the BI-LO Center was the largest arena in the state of South Carolina, until 2002, as by then the Colonial Center was built in Columbia, South Carolina.
Currently, the BI-LO Center also regularly hosts a wide variety of events such as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, professional wrestling, monster truck rallies, motocross racing, professional ice skating and ice dancing shows and competitions, dog shows and concerts spanning many different musical genres.
As a concert venue, the BI-LO Center can seat between 11,000 and 15,951 spectators, depending on the positioning of the stage. The arena features 30 luxury suites and 840 club seats. There are 7,472 seats in the upper bowl and 4,809 permanent seats and 1,290 retractable seats in the lower bowl.