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Crown Complex

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The Crown Complex (originally the Cumberland County Crown Coliseum) is a multi-purpose venue in Fayetteville, North Carolina that includes the Crown Coliseum, an indoor stadium. The stadium broke ground in 1995 and opened in 1997, and is currently home to the Fayetteville Marksmen ice hockey team. The Coliseum replaced the Crown Arena in the same complex as the main venue for sports events. The complex also contains a 2,400-seat auditorium named the Crown Theater and a 4,500-seat venue named Crown Arena, both of which were built in the 1960s. On January 22, 2020, Cumberland County's commissioner announced that the Crown Arena and Crown Theater would close in October 2022 due to the venues' non-compliance with the ADA, but would not affect the Coliseum. The closing was pushed back to November 2025.During the early stages of its construction, Crown Coliseum was mentioned as a possible temporary home for the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes, but this was blocked by minor league hockey executive Bill Coffey who had signed an exclusive lease agreement with the arena for the Fayetteville Force of the Central Hockey League.It was reported in mid-January that TNA Wrestling would be taping its weekly TNA iMPACT! broadcast in the arena on February 24, 2011 — which would be only the second time in its history that the show would be broadcast outside Universal Studio's iMPACT! zone in Orlando, Florida. WWE taped its annual Tribute to the Troops show at the venue on December 11, 2011. Fayetteville native rapper J. Cole's Forest Hills Drive: Live and his concert film, Forest Hills Drive: Homecoming was recorded at the arena on August 30, 2015, during his Forest Hills Drive Tour. Forest Hills Drive: Homecoming aired on HBO, January 9, 2016.

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Crown Complex
Coliseum Drive, Fayetteville

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Coliseum Drive 1960
28306 Fayetteville
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Fayetteville station (Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway)
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Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway Passenger Depot is a historic train station located at 325 Franklin Street in Fayetteville, North Carolina (Cumberland County). It was built in 1890 by the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway. It is a two-story brick passenger depot with a deep hip roof in the Romanesque Revival style. The seven bay by two bay building features a rounded brick arch arcade. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.During the first ten years after its construction, when rails provided the primary means for long-distance transportation, the Depot served as a gateway into the Fayetteville area and a reflection of civic pride. It made a strong first impression on newcomers and presented a prosperous contrast to train stations constructed exclusively from wood that had been built in N.C. prior to that time. It operated as a passenger station until about 1900, but after the demise of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railway, passenger services were moved to a newer depot on the Fayetteville Cutoff.[2] For the next 80 years, the Depot went through successive conversions to a grocery store, hardware store, automobile dealership and plumbing warehouse, to mention a few of its many identities. By 1980, as downtown experienced a period of deterioration due to shifts in population away from the city and relocation of major retail stores to suburban shopping districts, the building fell into disrepair. A group of local citizens interested in downtown revitalization and historic preservation convinced the city to use it as a Farmer’s Market. The city purchased the Depot in 1982, and acquired adjacent properties on the block thereafter. By 1985, the entire block had been assembled. Unfortunately, however, attempts to establish a Farmer’s Market were not successful. Over the next 14 years, the Depot remained vacant and its deterioration continued. Several attempts were made by private investors to purchase the building and adapt it for commercial use, but strong lobbying pressure from local historic and arts groups enabled the structure to remain in public hands. Not until a plan to rehabilitate the facility as a Transportation Museum and Visitor Center was unveiled in 1999 by Doug Traub, President & CEO of the Fayetteville Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (now DistiNCtly Fayetteville), was a consensus achieved.A nomination for Rehabilitation of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railway Passenger Depot, Phase I, was developed by Traub in concert with Mayor J.L. Dawkins, City Manager Roger Stancil and City Historian Roger Dawes. Every concerned, relevant constituent group in the community threw its support behind the project. In rare votes of unanimous approval, local governmental officials pledged new, substantial matching funds for the project. The proposed project became the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s number one ranked Enhancement Project amongst 146 applications, and received a grant of $1.4 million in federal funds to restore the property. Working as a consultant, Traub wrote another grant in 2000 that received another $422,000 in federal funds to construct Phase II, a museum within the property.Today the restored Depot it is a reminder of an age when North Carolina’s mineral, manufacturing and agricultural resources were first being rendered accessible to world markets by rail and sea, as well as a place to learn the history of Fayetteville.