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32-411: Nationwide Arena was built near the site of the former Ohio Penitentiary , which had an eastern border of West Street. The arena itself is built over the prison's former parking lot. The arena's parking lot and an apartment complex are built where the prison formerly stood. The arena was constructed in 2000. On March 16, 2002, 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil was struck in the head by a deflected puck during

64-616: A lawsuit on behalf of inmates, who argued in their lawsuit that conditions at the prison were in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. By 1979, the penitentiary had been renamed to the Columbus Correctional Facility, and was operating under a federal consent decree that mandated that it be closed by December 1983. Prior to its closure,

96-469: A local military post, were on the scene. Machine guns were placed at the gates and on the walls. Bayonets were fixed and the troopers were ordered to shoot to kill. A troop of National Guardsmen soon augmented the regulars, and 30 minutes after the fire started the prison was completely surrounded. Prison officials later alleged that three prisoners intentionally started the fire as part of an escape attempt, of whom two were said to have committed suicide in

128-555: A maximum security facility in Lucasville . During its operation, it housed several well-known inmates, including General John H. Morgan , George "Bugs" Moran , O. Henry , Chester Himes , and Sam Sheppard . A separate women's prison was built within its walls in 1837. The buildings were demolished in 1997. The prison was completed in 1815, replacing a more primitive one constructed by the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas

160-507: A mile north of the Ohio Statehouse . Seating capacity is approximately 18,500 for hockey , 17,171 for arena football , 19,500 for basketball , and up to 21,000 for concerts. The death of Brittanie Cecil from injuries sustained from a hockey puck flying into the stands at a Blue Jackets game on March 16, 2002, led to the installation of nylon netting to catch pucks that fly over the acrylic glass at all professional ice hockey arenas in

192-561: A mile south in Franklinton . It initially consisted of 13 cells. Its first inmates were two brothers, John and David Evans, who arrived August 15, 1815. Among the wardens of the penitentiary was Charles C. Walcutt , a former general in the Union Army during the Civil War. The prison's final warden was Terry Taylor. In 1885, Ohio legislators passed a law requiring executions to take place at

224-597: A one-year, annually renewable, management contract had been signed with Ohio State University . The contract called for the university to take over both day to day arena operations as well as booking non-athletic events, with the Blue Jackets booking athletic events and maintaining overall control of the arena. This arrangement made Nationwide Arena a sister venue to OSU's on-campus arena, Value City Arena . The university started booking acts in May 2010 and assumed day to day control of

256-650: A reversible stage. In 2001, the venue was nominated for a Pollstar Awards for "Best New Major Concert Venue". A sister venue, Stage AE is located in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania and opened in December 2010. In 2018, Promowest Productions and its venues were acquired by American entertainment presenter AEG . In August 2021, PromoWest Productions and AEG opened another sister venue, MegaCorp Pavilion, in Newport , Kentucky (near Cincinnati , Ohio ). This article related to

288-534: A separate practice rink built right in the facility, theme restaurants and great food selection, not to mention a raucous hockey atmosphere, this NHL venue is a must see!" Ohio Penitentiary The Ohio Penitentiary , also known as the Ohio State Penitentiary , was a prison operated from 1834 to 1984 in downtown Columbus, Ohio , in what is now known as the Arena District . The state had built

320-567: A small prison in Columbus in 1813, but as the state's population grew the earlier facility was not able to handle the number of prisoners sent to it by the courts. When the penitentiary first opened in 1834, not all of the buildings were completed. The prison housed 5,235 prisoners at its peak in 1955. Prison conditions were described as "primitive" and the facility was eventually replaced by the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility ,

352-543: A training site for a time by the Ohio National Guard , was briefly known as "The Demon Pen" for Halloween festivities, and attracted a number of urban explorers . The building also served as the setting for the 1985 made-for-TV movie Love on the Run , starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Alec Baldwin . The state eventually sold the property and building to the city of Columbus for development purposes in 1995. Demolition of

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384-697: Is named for the arena's original majority owner, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company , whose world headquarters are located across the street. On March 30, 2012, arena owners Nationwide Insurance and the Dispatch Publishing Group sold the facility to the Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority (FCCFA). As part of the sale, Nationwide agreed to lend the FCCFA $ 43.3 million to finance the arena's purchase which will be paid back by 2039 with casino tax revenue collected by both

416-611: The Blue Jackets' game against the Calgary Flames at Nationwide Arena. She died two days later, becoming the only NHL fan to be killed in a game-related accident. As a result of her death, the NHL mandated safety netting in all its arenas. In May 2012, Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman made a pitch to the National Basketball Association (NBA) requesting an expansion or relocated team be moved to Nationwide Arena. The venue

448-612: The City of Columbus and Franklin County. In addition, the Ohio Department of Development agreed to a 10-year, $ 10 million loan to the FCCFA to assist with the facilities purchase. If the Blue Jackets meet annual roster payroll requirement, $ 500,000 of this loan per year will be forgiven. Nationwide Insurance will also pay the Blue Jackets $ 28 million to retain the arena's naming rights until 2022 as well as $ 58 million to purchase 30% ownership stake in

480-613: The NHL, AHL, IIHF, and ECHL. The area surrounding Nationwide Arena, called the Arena District , is a mixed-use neighborhood developed by Nationwide Realty Investors featuring restaurants, bars, offices and residential buildings. The Columbus Clippers , a Triple-A baseball team of the International League , play in Huntington Park , also located in the Arena District and developed by Nationwide Realty Investors. Columbus uses

512-473: The Ohio Penitentiary; prior, local law enforcement were responsible for carrying out executions in the counties where inmates were convicted. The penitentiary first accommodated executions by hanging , starting with the hanging of convicted murderer Valentine Wagner on July 31, 1885. On July 1, 1896, Ohio's state legislature voted to replace the prison's gallows with the electric chair , thus making Ohio

544-593: The arena as a drawing point for the city with the other establishments feeding off of the foot traffic. The KEMBA Live! concert venue adjacent to the Nationwide Arena property, completes the entertainment complex. Nationwide Arena includes a smaller ice rink called the OhioHealth IceHaus, which serves as the practice rink for the Blue Jackets and is also used for youth hockey games and open skating times for

576-443: The arena on July 1, 2010. As part of the 2012 sale of Nationwide Arena, the Blue Jackets and OSU joined with Nationwide Insurance and the FCCFA to form Columbus Arena Management (CAM). Columbus Arena Management currently operates both Nationwide Arena and Value City Arena and oversees budgeting and event booking at both arenas. The arena is of a brick design and serves as the center of an entertainment district located about one-half of

608-435: The best arena in the NHL saying "This newer arena in downtown Columbus is the anchor for the emerging Arena District, already burgeoning with shops, restaurants and hotels. The venue is spectacular, from its nostalgic brick and stone veneer to its sweeping concourses with blue mood lighting and modern amenities. The arena bowl has state of the art scoreboards and surround LED graphics boards which look 21st century high tech. With

640-507: The chair was never used at that location before it was permanently retired in 2001 and donated to the Ohio Historical Society in 2002. There was nothing to do but scream for God to open the doors. And when the doors didn't open, all that was left was to stand still and let the fire burn the meat off and hope it wouldn't be too long about it. On April 21, 1930, a major fire killed 322 inmates and hospitalized another 230 in what

672-463: The franchise. The Blue Jackets, in turn, agreed to remain in the city until 2039 or pay $ 36 million in damages. While the Blue Jackets held sole operational control of the arena from 2000 to 2012, the team contracted day-to-day operations and event booking to venue management corporation SMG from the arena's opening until June 30, 2010. On May 12, 2010, the Blue Jackets announced that SMG would not be retained as arena managers and further announced that

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704-520: The months after the event. Historians have disputed the veracity of this allegation, suggesting it was a means to divert attention from poor management of the fire. The incident was the subject of then-inmate Chester Himes ' story "To What Red Hell", published in Esquire in 1934, as well as his 1952 novel Cast the First Stone , republished unabridged in 1998 as Yesterday Will Make You Cry . The prison

736-452: The penitentiary experienced overcrowding, as it was rated to hold a maximum capacity of 700 prisoners yet held 1,990 prisoners by November 1983. The state gradually phased out the prison, moving inmates to other facilities; the last inmate left the facility in August 1984. After the closure of the Ohio Penitentiary in 1984, the building stood vacant for more than a decade, though it was used as

768-439: The prisoners in their cells, although some did provide help. Some inmates overpowered a guard and took his keys, which they used to rescue other prisoners. A prison riot developed and firefighters arriving to fight the blaze were attacked with rocks. A cordon of penitentiary guards was deployed about the towering prison walls. Other squads took up vantage points in guard towers and by this time 500 soldiers from Fort Hayes ,

800-635: The public. This facility made Nationwide Arena the first NHL arena with an on-site practice facility and, as of 2019, one of only four such facilities in the NHL, along with KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York , Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey , and Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan . ESPN The Magazine declared it "the No. 2 stadium experience in professional sports." The Ultimate Sports Road Trip rated it

832-509: The results of this experiment to an experiment in which he injected cancer cells into cancer patients, and observed that the prison subjects fought off the cancer faster than the subjects who had cancer. This case raised many ethical concerns, as many believe that it violated the bioethical principles of informed consent , non-maleficence , and beneficence . In 1978, Ohio's branch of the American Civil Liberties Union filed

864-477: The second state in the United States to adopt and use that method of execution. Ohio's first executions by electrocution took place on April 21, 1897, when teenager William Haas and 38-year-old William Wiley, both convicted of murder, were executed shortly after midnight; Haas died first at 12:27 am, and Wiley followed minutes later. The last death sentence carried out at the prison, and Ohio's final electrocution,

896-444: The site was performed by S.G. Loewendick & Sons . Before demolition was approved, the Columbus mayor at the time, Buck Rinehart , personally took a wrecking ball to a portion of the building prematurely, and was ordered to have the damage patched. The former penitentiary site now sits within the Arena District , with Burnham Square Condominiums, McFerson Commons , and several office buildings and parking garages now standing on

928-658: The site. David Allan Coe KEMBA Live! KEMBA Live! (originally the PromoWest Pavilion ) is a multi-purpose concert venue located in the Arena District of Columbus, Ohio . Opening in 2001, the venues operates year-round with indoor and outdoor facilities: the Indoor Music Hall and Outdoor Amphitheater. The venue was modeled after the House of Blues and described as the " Newport Music Hall on steroids". It features state-of-the-art lighting, acoustical systems and

960-457: Was one of the deadliest fires in North American prison history. The fire started when a candle ignited oily rags on a roof in the prison's six-story West Block, east of Neil Avenue on the western edge of the prison. It was first noticed after prisoners had been locked in their cells for the evening. Reports say that many guards refused to unlock cells when smoke entered the cell block and left

992-432: Was that of Donald Reinbolt on March 15, 1963. A total of 343 inmates were executed at the penitentiary; 28 men were hanged between 1885 and 1896, and 312 men and three women were electrocuted between 1897 and 1963, as Ohio subsequently experienced a hiatus in executions. In 1972, the prison's electric chair and the state's death row were relocated to the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio , although

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1024-545: Was the site of the "Halloween Riot", on October 31, 1952, which left one inmate dead and four injured, as well as the riot of August 1968, which ended with five dead inmates, five injured inmates and seven injured officers. In the 1950s, a prominent virologist named Chester M. Southam injected inmates from the Ohio State Penitentiary with HeLa cells in order to observe if people could be made immune to cancer by developing an acquired immune response. He compared

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