The MTS Centre
300 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3C 5S5
Tel: (204) 986-4638
Fax: (204) 986-7091
Toll Free:1-888-626-6673
www.mtscentre.ca
The MTS Centre is a first class, state of the art multi-purpose sports and entertainment facility in the heart of downtown. Connections to the city’s downtown skywalk system provides easy access to hotels, shopping and many attractions as well as thousands of parking spaces*. The three-concourse facility provides configuration not only for international conventions, trade shows and large scale sports and entertainment spectacles but also for banquets, meetings, conferences and more intimate social and business gatherings. The flexible seating bowl has up to 17,000 seats for centre-stage concerts and can be curtained for intimate theatre and concert events for 2,500. This is a true entertainment facility with excellent sightlines from every seat, superb acoustics for concerts and a great ambience for all kinds of events.
Facility Features
Event Level -Located 19 feet below ground this level contains all the back-of-house technical, storage and loading in and out functions with a unique 300 ft. long service ramp and loading dock that will accommodate up to six semi-trailers at a time. Located here are also the dressing rooms, entertainers dressing rooms, player’s lounge, weight room and kitchen preparation area.
VIP Lounges, Media Centre and Breakout Rooms -MTS Centre’s event level offers a number of different options and room configurations to meet all meeting/social requirements.
Main Concourse Level -There are four (4) entrances to this concourse at each of the four corners of the MTS Centre. At this level is the main box office/ticket window, access to the concourse that circles the building, all lower bowl seats and club seats are accessed from this level.
Suite/Skywalk Level -Two large party suites and 46 private suites are accessed from a private concourse at the mid-level of the facility that connects to the downtown skywalk system. Each suite includes 16 seats in the lower bowl, the party suites have a 48-person capacity.
Upper Concourse -The upper level seating expands the centre’s capacity to just over 15,000 for hockey and 17,000 for centre-stage concerts.
Food and Beverage Services -Complete catering services are provided by Centreplate, one of the leading providers of food, beverage and banquet services in North America.
Prepaid MTS Centre parking available through Ticketmaster’s website or at the MTS Centre box offices for any of the four designated lots (Portage Place, cityplace, Millennium Library and Winnipeg Square). As well, there are thousands of parking spots at heated indoor lots, surface parking lots and at parking meters within a 5-10 minute walk of the MTS Centre.
