Can you think of any corporately named stadiums/arenas in which the company isn’t local to the team?
Local ones I can think of:
Target Field
Wrigley Field
Gillette Stadium
Levi Stadium (new 49ers stadium)
Do I misunderstand your post? Target’s corporate headquarters are in Minneapolis; Levi Strauss & Co is in San Francisco; Wrigley’s corporate HQ is in Chicago; and Gillette’s main office is in Boston, MA.
Xcel Energy center is in St Paul but they’re based in Colorado.
mark-Those are exceptions I can think of. Sorry if I was vague.
Probably my own reading comprehension is to blame.
The gimme here is AT&T, which has a baseball stadium (San Francisco) and a basketball arena (San Antonio).
For awhile, we had the Pepsi Arena in Albany. Pepsi’s headquarters was in Purchase, 141 miles from the arena, and has no more presence in Albany than Coke from Atlanta. It’s since been renamed for a local newspaper.
Federal Express is headquartered in Dallas, but FedEx Field is in Landover, Maryland. Similarly, Lucas Oil is based in Corona, California, but Lucas Oil Stadium is in Indianapolis.
Fifth Third Bank is headquartered in Cincinnati, but they have the naming rights to minor league ballparks in Dayton, Toledo, Grand Rapids, and exurban Chicago.
No, they’re based in Minneapolis.
Staples is headquartered in MA, but the Staples center is in Los Angeles.
Coors Field is in Denver. Coors is headquartered in Golden, 20 miles west.
Lamar and Joey named ones I knew, but forgot. :smack:
I’m going to ask for a ruling on the field for this one…
The refs are conferring…
And they have overturned the call and declared this a local name.
At first blush, Comerica Park for the Detroit Tigers would match the OP. Comerica Bank is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. However, Comerica was founded in Detroit and paid for naming rights in 1998 when it was still in Detroit. They didn’t move their headquarters to Dallas until 2007.
In England, there is the Emirates Stadium (where Arsenal play) and the Etihad Stadium (where Manchester City play) - both being airlines run out of the Middle East.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League play in Mosaic Stadium and Mosaic is an American company (although it operates mines in Saskatchewan).
The Boston Bruins play in the TD Bank Arena, which is named after the TD (Toronto Dominion) Bank group of companies, which isn’t even headquartered in the United States.
The Philadelphia Flyers, meanwhile, skate in the Wells Fargo Center. Wells Fargo is headquartered in San Francisco and was founded in New York.
The baseball stadium was originally Pacific Bell Park, then AT&T bought them. They kept the name for a while, but eventually phased out using subsidiary names entirely.
And Southwestern Bell used to be located in San Antonio- they now belong to AT&T, too.
Rogers, the Canadian telecom giant, has a stadium in Toronto (where the Blue Jays play) and an arena in Vancouver (where the Canucks play.) The company is headquartered in Toronto.
Toronto’s hockey arena, meanwhile, is the Air Canada Centre. Air Canada is headquartered in Montreal.