Filling a Niche for Concert Venues in Philly
Comcast Spectacor’s planned 5,500- to 6,000-seat arena, to be built on the site of the former Spectrum, would represent an unusual size for a performing-arts venue in Philadelphia, which has places with capacities between Lincoln Financial Field and Citizens Bank Park for the largest acts, and more intimate halls such as the Met and the Fillmore.
Here are some current performing venues in the region, with capacities and recent artists who have recently held concerts.
= One thousand people
Lincoln Financial Field
Citizens Bank Park
69,000 capacity
43,000
Taylor Swift, Beyonce
Bruce Springsteen, Green Day
Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
(Camden)
Wells Fargo Center
21,000
25,000
Bad Bunny, Madonna, Drake
Neil Young, Chris Stapleton
Mann Center
Planned Comcast
Spectacor arena
4,500; 9,500 including
terrace and lawn
5,500 to 6,000
Willie Nelson, boygenius
The Met
The Fillmore
Keswick Theater
(Glenside)
3,500
3,000
Jazmine Sullivan,
the War on Drugs
Japanese Breakfast,
Bob Dylan
1,361
Kansas, Richard Marx
Source: Inquirer research
Steve Madden / Staff Artist
Filling a Niche for
Concert Venues in Philadelphia
Comcast Spectacor’s planned 5,500- to 6,000-seat arena, to be built on the site of the former Spectrum, would represent an unusual size for a performing-arts venue in Philadelphia, which has places with capacities between Lincoln Financial Field and Citizens Bank Park for the largest acts, and more intimate halls such as the Met and the Fillmore.
Here are some current performing venues in the region, with capacities and recent artists who have recently held concerts.
= One thousand people
Lincoln Financial Field
Citizens Bank Park
69,000 capacity
43,000
Taylor Swift, Beyonce
Bruce Springsteen,
Green Day
Freedom Mortgage
Pavilion (Camden)
Wells Fargo Center
21,000
25,000
Bad Bunny, Madonna,
Drake
Neil Young,
Chris Stapleton
Mann Center
Planned Comcast
Spectacor arena
4,500; 9,500 including
terrace and lawn
5,500 to 6,000
Willie Nelson, boygenius
The Met
The Fillmore
Keswick Theater
(Glenside)
3,500
3,000
Jazmine Sullivan,
the War on
Drugs
Japanese
Breakfast,
Bob Dylan
1,361
Kansas,
Richard Marx
Source: Inquirer research
Steve Madden / Staff Artist
