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The BankAtlantic Center is an indoor arena located in Sunrise, Florida, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and adjacent to the popular Sawgrass... Mills Mall. The arena features 70 suites & 2,623 club seats. The arena is directly accessible from the Sawgrass Expressway northbound at the Pat Salerno Drive exit, and in both directions at the Oakland Park Boulevard and Sunrise Boulevard exits. The arena is home to the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League, and was to the Miami Caliente of the Lingerie Football League and the Florida Pit Bulls of the American Basketball Association when they existed. The arena was completed in 1998, at a cost of $185 million, almost entirely publicly financed. The search for a new arena began in 1992, when H. Wayne Huizenga obtained the new franchise for the Florida Panthers hockey team, who initially played at the now-demolished Miami Arena. The search process became a fast-track development strategy when the site in Sunrise, Florida, was selected in June 1996.
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Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. Florida is the 22nd most extensive, the 4th most populous, and the 8th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state capital is Tallahassee, its largest city is Jacksonville, and the South Florida metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan area in the... southeastern U.S. Much of Florida is situated on a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Straits of Florida. Its geography is marked by a coastline, by the omnipresence of water and the threat of hurricanes. Florida has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States, encompassing approximately 1,350 miles , and is the only state to border both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Much of the state is at or near sea level and its terrain is characterized by sedimentary soils. The climate varies from subtropical in the north to tropical in the south.
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