New Jersey’s Prudential Center opens this weekend

October 23rd, 2007 NHL venues, USRT

newarkarena1024.jpg
Some are calling it the “Pru Center”. Others “The Rock”. Nonetheless, the sparkling new home of the NHL New Jersey Devils raises the curtain this Saturday when the Devils play the Ottawa Senators.

The arena is located two blocks from Penn Station in downtown Newark, and TV will be the motif of the building. The building offers a panoramic picture window as its facade, flanked on either side by 72-foot-diameter glass cylinders ‘based on a building in Greece,’ according to tour guides. But the effect of the huge (three stories tall) arched window is somewhat offset by the 4,800-square-foot LED monitor hung in front of it, conveniently sliced into thin columns so folks inside aren’t entirely reduced to looking at the back of a TV set. And inside, as you walk through wide and often low-ceilinged spaces divvied up into ’sales points’ (like restaurants, a City Grill, the NJ Devils Team Store, bars — including a Belvedere Vodka Ice Lounge equipped with a bar made of real ice — and many other concessions, up to 150 in all), you see plasma flat-screen TVs everywhere.

This awesome article in the New Jersey Star-Ledger shows everything you need to know about the Pru Center, including maps and virtual scale models of the building.

The Ultimate Sports Road Trip will make the “official visit” to the Pru on Tuesday January 8 when the Buffalo Sabres play the Devils.

RSS 2.0 Respond Trackback

3 Responses to “New Jersey’s Prudential Center opens this weekend”

  1.  

    TV » New Jersey’s Prudential Center opens this weekend Says:
    October 23rd, 2007 at 3:46 pm

    […] admin wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt… a City Grill, the NJ Devils Team Store, bars — including a Belvedere Vodka Ice Lounge equipped with a bar made of real ice — and many other concessions, up to 150 in all), you see plasma flat-screen TVs everywhere. … […]

  2.  

    NHL Hockey News » Blog Archive » New Jersey’s Prudential Center opens this weekend Says:
    October 23rd, 2007 at 5:31 pm

    […] paul.szeglowski@letsgosabres.com (Paul Szeglowski) wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt… you need to know about the Pru Center, including maps and virtual scale models of the building. The Ultimate Sports Road Trip will make the “official visit” to the Pru on Tuesday January 8 when the Buffalo Sabres play the Devils. […]

  3.  

    Brian Says:
    October 29th, 2007 at 5:44 am

    There are several mass transportation options available to get to this building. On Saturday night the Devils, Rangers, and Islanders were all home. After the games were over fans of the three teams were crossing paths on the trains headed to New Jersey, New York City, and Long Island. In Penn Station there were several Devils and Rangers fans waiting to go back to the Long Island. It should be interesting when the Rangers, Islanders, and Flyers come to Newark. It might be similar to a Subway ride during the Mets vs Yankees games every summer.

Got something to say? Drop it here.

WNYM seeks to provide a forum for snarky opinions and open discussion. However, we do need to have some ground rules around this joint. In order to make our comments useful and interesting, the following guidelines have been established for comment users. In short; don't act like a libelous or hate-filled tool and we'll get along just fine.