Mansfield Municipal Airport ( FAA LID : 1B9 ) is a public airport located 2 mi (1.7 nmi; 3.2 km) southeast of the central business district of Mansfield , a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts , United States. During World War II, the airfield was Naval Outlying Landing Field Mansfield .
6-523: It is a community airport located 1 mi (1.6 km) from the Xfinity Center . The airport offers flight training, fuel, etc. Mansfield Municipal Airport covers 230 acres (93 ha) and has two runways : This article about an airport in Massachusetts is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Xfinity Center (Mansfield, Massachusetts) The Xfinity Center (originally
12-581: The Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts and commonly Great Woods ) is an outdoor amphitheatre located in Mansfield, Massachusetts . The venue opened during the summer of 1986 with a capacity of 12,000. It was expanded after 2000 to 19,900; 7,000 reserved seats, 7,000 lawn seats and 5,900 general admission seats. The season for the venue is typically from mid May until late September. In 2010, it
18-804: The Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts; with a performance by Yo-Yo Ma and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra . It was one of the busiest venues in New England, hosting nearly 80 concerts per season. Over the years, additional amphitheaters were added to the region. The Xfinity Theatre in Hartford and the Leader Bank Pavilion in Boston brought competition to the area, bringing the venue to an average of 36 events per season. In 1998,
24-498: The New England region was in desperate need of an outdoors venue (at the time, the main outdoor venues were Tanglewood , Cape Cod Melody Tent , and the South Shore Music Circus). The performing arts center plan was changed to an amphitheater. The site was moved to Mansfield to create a regional venue, being within 40 miles (64 km) of Providence , Boston, Worcester and Cape Cod . The venue opened June 13, 1986, as
30-459: The owner of venue, Don Law Company, was sold to SFX Entertainment and naming rights were sold to Tweeter Home Entertainment a year later, with the venue now becoming the "Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts". When the electronics retailer faced bankruptcy in 2007, multi-media organization Comcast bought naming rights, with the venue becoming the Comcast Center in 2008. The company renamed
36-563: Was named Top Grossing Amphitheater by Billboard . It mainly hosts concerts; other events, such as graduation ceremonies, including that of Mansfield High School , occasionally take place. The venue was proposed by Don Law, John E. Drew and Sherman Wolf in 1985. Originally, the suggested site was in Brookline, Massachusetts . At that time, the venue was planned to be a performing arts center, consisting of concert hall , auditorium and black box theater . After conducting research, Law concluded
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