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Cobo Hall, officially Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center, is a convention center
Convention center

A convention center, in American English, is an exhibition hall, or conference center, that is designed to hold a Convention . In British English very large venues suitable for major trade shows are known as exhibition centres while the term "convention centre" is sometimes used for intermediate venues between exhibitions centres and...
 situated in downtown Detroit
Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
, Michigan
Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. It and the adjacent Cobo Arena are named for Albert E. Cobo, mayor of Detroit from 1950 to 1957. Designed by Gino Rossetti, both Cobo Hall and Cobo Arena opened in 1960. It underwent a significant expansion in 1989 and presently holds 700,000 square feet (65,030 mē) of exhibition space. Cobo Center and the adjacent Joe Louis Arena
Joe Louis Arena

Joe Louis Arena, nicknamed The Joe and JLA, is a hockey arena located at 600 Civic Center Drive in Detroit, Michigan. It is the home of the National Hockey League franchise, the Detroit Red Wings....
 are each served by their own Detroit People Mover
Detroit People Mover

The Detroit People Mover is a 2.9 mile people mover system which operates a single-track, one-way loop through the central business district of downtown Detroit, Michigan, Michigan....
 stations.

The center is the home of the North American International Auto Show
North American International Auto Show

The North American International Auto Show is an annual auto show held in Detroit, Michigan. It is among the largest auto shows in North America....
 or NAIAS, which is hosts each January, and Autorama
Autorama

Autorama is a large car show held each year at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. It is put on by the Michigan Hot Rod Association and is held every year in March....
, which is hosts each March.
obo Arena is a 12,191-seat indoor arena
List of indoor arenas

The following is a list of indoor arenas....
 adjacent to Cobo Hall.






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Cobo Hall, officially Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center, is a convention center
Convention center

A convention center, in American English, is an exhibition hall, or conference center, that is designed to hold a Convention . In British English very large venues suitable for major trade shows are known as exhibition centres while the term "convention centre" is sometimes used for intermediate venues between exhibitions centres and...
 situated in downtown Detroit
Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
, Michigan
Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. It and the adjacent Cobo Arena are named for Albert E. Cobo, mayor of Detroit from 1950 to 1957. Designed by Gino Rossetti, both Cobo Hall and Cobo Arena opened in 1960. It underwent a significant expansion in 1989 and presently holds 700,000 square feet (65,030 mē) of exhibition space. Cobo Center and the adjacent Joe Louis Arena
Joe Louis Arena

Joe Louis Arena, nicknamed The Joe and JLA, is a hockey arena located at 600 Civic Center Drive in Detroit, Michigan. It is the home of the National Hockey League franchise, the Detroit Red Wings....
 are each served by their own Detroit People Mover
Detroit People Mover

The Detroit People Mover is a 2.9 mile people mover system which operates a single-track, one-way loop through the central business district of downtown Detroit, Michigan, Michigan....
 stations.

The center is the home of the North American International Auto Show
North American International Auto Show

The North American International Auto Show is an annual auto show held in Detroit, Michigan. It is among the largest auto shows in North America....
 or NAIAS, which is hosts each January, and Autorama
Autorama

Autorama is a large car show held each year at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. It is put on by the Michigan Hot Rod Association and is held every year in March....
, which is hosts each March.

Cobo Arena

Cobo Arena is a 12,191-seat indoor arena
List of indoor arenas

The following is a list of indoor arenas....
 adjacent to Cobo Hall. It was the home of the Detroit Pistons
Detroit Pistons

The Detroit Pistons are a team in the National Basketball Association based in the Detroit metropolitan area. The team's home arena is The Palace of Auburn Hills....
 (1961-1978), the Michigan Stags
Michigan Stags

The Michigan Stags were a professional ice hockey team based out of Detroit, Michigan, United States that played in the World Hockey Association....
 of the WHA
World Hockey Association

The World Hockey Association was a professional ice hockey league that operated in North America from 1972-73 WHA season to 1978-79 WHA season....
 (1974-1975), the Detroit Ambassadors
Plymouth Whalers

The Plymouth Whalers are a major junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League. They play out of Compuware Arena in Plymouth Township, Michigan, USA....
 of the Ontario Hockey League
Ontario Hockey League

The Ontario Hockey League is one of the three Major Junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League. The league is for players aged 15-20....
 (1990-1992), the Detroit Dogs of the American Basketball Association (2000-2001), the Detroit Rockers
Detroit Rockers

The Detroit Rockers were an indoor soccer team in the National Professional Soccer League II from 1990 to 2001. They played in Joe Louis Arena and Cobo Arena in downtown Detroit, Michigan as well as the Palace of Auburn Hills and Compuware Arena in the suburbs....
 of the National Professional Soccer League (along with Joe Louis Arena
Joe Louis Arena

Joe Louis Arena, nicknamed The Joe and JLA, is a hockey arena located at 600 Civic Center Drive in Detroit, Michigan. It is the home of the National Hockey League franchise, the Detroit Red Wings....
) from 1990-2001, and the University of Detroit Mercy
University of Detroit Mercy

University of Detroit Mercy is a comprehensive university in Detroit, Michigan, United States, created in 1990. With origins dating from 1877, it is the largest Roman Catholic university in Michigan....
 men's basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
 team (along with Calihan Hall
Calihan Hall

Calihan Hall is an 8,295-seat multi-purpose arena in Detroit, Michigan. It is home to the University of Detroit Mercy Titans basketball team. The arena opened in 1952....
). The facility also hosted the 1990-1992 Mid-American Conference
Mid-American Conference

The Mid-American Conference is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I List of college athletic conferences with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from New York to Illinois....
 men's basketball tournaments.

Cobo Arena has consistently served as a concert venue for acts of all genres. Concert albums of Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
 The Virgin Tour
The Virgin Tour

The Virgin Tour is the first concert tour by United States singer-songwriter Madonna . The tour supported her first two studio album, Madonna and Like a Virgin....
, KISS
KISS (band)

Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
 (Alive!), Bob Seger
Bob Seger

Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.After years of local Detroit-area success, recording and performing in the mid-1960s, Seger achieved superstar status by the mid-1970s and continuing through the 1980s with the Silver Bullet Band....
 (Live Bullet
Live Bullet

Live Bullet is a live album by United States Rock and roll band Bob Seger, released in 1976 in music. It was recorded at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan, during the heyday of that arena's time as an important rock concert venue....
), Kid Rock
Kid Rock

Robert James Ritchie , known by his stage name Kid Rock, is a rapper turned singer/songwriter with five Grammy nominations. He was born in Romeo, Michigan on January 17, 1971....
 (Live Trucker
Live Trucker

Live Trucker is a live album by Kid Rock released on February 28, 2006. It is comprised of songs from his homestands of Clarkston and Detroit's Cobo Hall ....
) The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip

The Tragically Hip is a Canada Rock music Musical ensemble from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie , Paul Langlois , Rob Baker , Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay ....
 (Live Between Us
Live Between Us

Live Between Us is the first full-length live album by Canada rock and roll musical band The Tragically Hip. It is their only live album to date....
), and Yes
Yes (band)

Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
 (Yesshows
Yesshows

Yesshows is the second live album by United Kingdom progressive rock group Yes . Released shortly after the appearance of Drama , Yesshows comprises live performances ranging from the summer of 1976 to the supporting tour for Tormato in 1978....
) were all recorded, in whole or in part, in the arena. The Doors
The Doors

The Doors were an United States rock music band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by Singer Jim Morrison, keyboard instrument Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger....
 played at Cobo Arena and recorded the show under the name "Live In Detroit"
Live in Detroit (The Doors album)

"Live In Detroit" is the fifth live album by American rock band The Doors. The tracks were recorded on May 8, 1970 at Cobo Arena in Detroit. It is one of the first releases from the Bright Midnight Archives....
.

The facility also hosted the returning edition of WWE Saturday Night's Main Event
WWE Saturday Night's Main Event

Saturday Night's Main Event is a professional wrestling television program that aired occasionally from 1985 to 1992, under the World Wrestling Entertainment banner on NBC in place of Saturday Night Live....
 on March 18, 2006.

On October 4, 2008 hip hop
Hip hop

Hip hop is a cultural movement built largely around the music genre of hip hop music, which developed in New York City during the 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latino Americans....
 artist Jay-Z
Jay-Z

Shawn Corey Carter , better known as his stage name, Jay-Z, is an American hip hop artist and businessman. He is the former Chief executive officer of Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records....
 held a free
Free

Semantics in general Free may convey connotations of:* Freedom * Freestyle * Gratis, process of providing goods or services without monetary compensation...
 concert
Concert

A concert is a live performance, usually of music, before an audience. The music may be performed by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band....
 in support for presidential democratic nominee Barack Obama
Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the List of Presidents of the United States and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office....
 and to encourage younger voters to register
Register

Register may refer to:In linguistics:* Tone #Register tones and contour tones, a linguistics term for tones distinguished by relative pitch...
 by the voter registration deadline
Deadline

A deadline is a time limit. Deadline may also refer to:...
. The free event was held at Cobo Arena.

Future development

The Michigan house and senate approved legislation on December 19, 2008 to allow for a $288 million expansion of Cobo Center; the plan calls for a 166,000 square foot addition. The legislation approved created a five-member board to by appointed by the governor, the City of Detroit, and Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties to oversee the operation of the center. All decisions by the newly created board concerning the future of the center must be unanimous.

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