The new University of Central Florida Arena which plans to open this autumn at a cost of $52 million. The arena which comes under east Orange County will host more than just sports.

Musical acts amongst other forms of live entertainment will be held at the arena which boasts an impressive 10,000 seating capacity. In terms of live music the building compliments other entertainment venues in the area such as House of Blue in Downtown Disney and Hard Rock Live in Universal’s CityWalk as well as the TD Waterhouse Center/AmWay Arena in downtown Orlando and the Silver Spurs arena in Kissimmee as well as the mighty Citrus Bowl.

The new arena is already booked with acts to perform in september and october this year, from comedian Bill Cosby on September 13th to Country and Western Stars Brookes and Dunn & Alan Jackson on October 21st.

This is all great news showing that the booming Orlando area economy is still plowing ahead!