HAMPTON UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION CENTER
Since opening in 1993, the Hampton University Convocation Center in Hampton, Va. has hosted concerts, basketball games and conventions and has made an impact on both student life and the Hampton Roads community. The Convocation Center’s staff is looking to increase the venue’s variety of events and number of sponsors and is looking forward to a bright future. The Convocation Center has a capacity of 8,200 for concerts and conventions and 7,200 for basketball and is set on a campus of 6,000 students in a city of 300,000. While it might look small compared to the city’s 13,000-capacity Hampton Coliseum, that’s only a matter of relativity - the Center has a big past, a big future and a staff with big dreams.
Some of the features of the Convocation Center include a removable Final Four basketball floor; two meeting rooms with wall-to-wall carpet, an intercom system and capabilities for theater-style seating or conference tables and chairs; two dressing rooms, each complete with wall-to-wall carpet, full-length vanity mirrors, an intercom system and a restroom with shower; a press room with phones jacks; four locker rooms complete with prostyle lockers, an intercom system and restroom with showers; a loading dock and mechanical loading ramp; a state-of-the-art sound system with a 32 channel Yamaha sound board; and stagehands and riggers provided by local I.A.T.S.E. Union 264. The building has 2,000 parking spaces and two concession stands as well as an in-house paramedic system all ready and waiting for the next big concert or event.
