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Jobing.com Arena? They can’t even spell at that company (it’s pronounced “jobbing.com”) but I guess they came up with enough money to buy the naming rights to Glendale Arena. (Clearly money is more persuasive than spelling skills in these sorts of things.)

Anyway, Glendale Arena (alright, Jobing.com Arena) is home to all sorts of sporting events here in Phoenix and also hosts a few large concerts and other events from time to time. It is big enough to not sell out all the time (it seats more than 17,000 people) but if you are ever looking for tickets to a popular event then here are the best places to look for aftermarket tickets:

We Have Seats usually has the best prices
TicketsNow has a good selection too
StubHub will let you buy or sell tickets and often gets some seats the other guys don’t have

Here is some info about Jobing.com Arena from its wiki:

Location - 9400 West Maryland Avenue, Glendale, Arizona 85305
Broke ground - 2002
Opened - 2003
Owner - City of Glendale
Operator - City of Glendale
Construction cost - $180 million

Tenants
Phoenix Coyotes (NHL) (2003-present)
Arizona Sting (NLL) (2003-present)

Seats
17,653

Jobing.com Arena (formerly Glendale Arena) is an arena located in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. It is home to the Phoenix Coyotes of the NHL and the Arizona Sting of the NLL. Completed in 2003, the arena cost $180 million. It seats 17,500 for hockey and lacrosse. Glendale Arena sits across the street from University of Phoenix Stadium.

The Coyotes moved into the arena in late 2003. The team had spent its first several seasons since relocating from Winnipeg in 1996 in the America West Arena (now the US Airways Center) in downtown Phoenix. The AWA was not an old arena (it had made its debut as the new home of the NBA’s Phoenix Suns only three years earlier, in 1993) but it was primarily designed for NBA basketball. It was quickly retrofitted for hockey. However, unlike most modern arenas, the arena floor was not designed with a hockey rink in mind, and several seats had badly obstructed views. As a result, before the team’s second season in Phoenix, it had to be cut down from over 18,000 seats to just over 16,000–the second-smallest capacity in the NHL at the time, until the Colorado Avalanche moved into the Pepsi Center in 1999; after that point, America West Arena was the smallest NHL venue. Even then, it was obvious that America West Arena was a terrible place to watch a hockey game. A small section of seats on one end of the arena actually hung over the boards, obstructing the views from 3,000 seats. Some fans actually reported seeing locations where the original concrete was sheared off to create retractable seating for hockey. In addition, an unfavorable lease put the Coyotes on shaky financial ground.

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The arena is part of the larger Westgate development, which is going to be an entertainment and retail hub located around the arena; a 320-room Renaissance Hotel and Conference Center is planned for Westgate.

On Wednesday, October 25, 2006, local online company Jobing.com signed a 10-year, $30 million naming rights deal.