Moda Center

The Moda Center is a $267 million multi-purpose arena that opened in the fall of 1995 as the Rose Garden, which remains an ongoing community icon in Portland. The arena serves as the home of the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers and WHL’s Portland Winterhawks. In addition to basketball and hockey, the Rose Garden, and subsequently Moda Center, has played host to a wide variety of events such as concerts, family shows and other sporting events. The Rose Quarter was the host of the 2005 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. In 2009 & 2015 the first and second rounds of the men’s NCAA basketball tournament were hosted at Moda Center. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters filmed his 2000 DVD In the Flesh — Live at Moda Center. The first ever concert held at the arena was David Bowie & Nine Inch Nails on October 25, 1995. Moda Center also contains an intimate theater configuration called Theater of the Clouds that has played host to a variety of concerts and speakers.