Fan Experience Elevated at Petersen Events Center with Upgrade for 2024-25

Fan Experience Elevated at Petersen Events Center with Upgrade for 2024-25

PITTSBURGH – Pitt Athletics, together with its venue administration and reside expertise accomplice ASM International and meals providers accomplice Chartwells, proceed to enhance the general gameday expertise on the Petersen Occasions Middle by taking a number of measures to enhance the fan expertise at among the finest on-campus venues within the nation.
 

RALLY HOUSE PANTHERS TEAM STORE

Rally Home, a number one sports activities and merchandise retailer, is now the official staff retailer for College of Pittsburgh Athletics. The Rally Home Panthers Crew Retailer, situated within the Thomas E. Richards Household Foyer on the Petersen Occasions Middle, held its grand opening in September and gives a formidable assortment of genuine Pitt attire and merchandise from the highest manufacturers within the business. This new partnership may even profit college students and followers with simpler entry to Pitt gear from the Rally Home Panthers Crew Retailer on-line and on the many Rally Home areas round Pennsylvania.

Rally Home stands out for its concentrate on superior customer support as patrons can purchase on-line, pick-up in retailer, and make easy returns at any bodily storefront. The Rally Home Panthers Crew Retailer may even be at different Pitt ticketed venues, together with Acrisure Stadium (soccer), Fitzgerald Discipline Home (volleyball, wrestling, gymnastics), and Petersen Sports activities Complicated (baseball, soccer, softball).

CALIENTE PIZZA & OTHER EXCITING NEW CONCESSIONS OFFERINGS

With comfort and effectivity in thoughts, Pitt makes use of cellular concessions ordering on the Petersen Occasions Middle via the Pitt Panthers Gameday Cellular App. Followers can keep away from concessions strains by putting meals and beverage orders via the cellular app and choosing up their orders all through the sector. The Pitt Panthers Gameday Cellular App is on the market to obtain on Apple or Google Play.

The Petersen Occasions Middle added a second specific marketplace for snacks and drinks that provides followers a quick frictionless strategy to store. The brand new Simply Stroll Out location, providing scorching meals choices on gameday, is situated on the Hardwood Café concession location.

Amazon’s Simply Stroll Out expertise makes use of synthetic intelligence comparable to pc imaginative and prescient and deep studying methods, together with generative AI, to precisely decide who took what in any retail setting. This expertise is designed to remove checkout strains and permit clients to spend much less time buying and get again to the motion faster.

Unique to the VenueNext cellular ordering with choose up areas at Coaches Nook and Baseline Grill concessions areas is a $5 Household Worth Pack with the next providing: jumbo jot canine, jumbo pretzel, common nachos, common popcorn, common comfortable drinks, or Pitt IC Mild 12-ounce can. The Household Worth menu can be out there throughout males’s basketball video games till the 10-minute mark of the second half.

Pitt and Chartwells can be excited to launch a pizza program this yr with Caliente Pizza with ordering and pickup choices on the Coaches Nook, Quick Break, and Hardwood Café areas. Caliente Pizza & Draft Home, a staple in Pittsburgh’s high sports activities venues, is bringing its award-winning Sicilian-style pizza to the house of the Pitt Panthers.

Every location may even have further new objects for the 2024-25 season.

New Objects By Location

Hardwood Café – Caliente Pizza, Italian sausage sandwich, hen tenders & fries

Baseline Grill – Grilled hen breast sandwich

Coaches Nook – Caliente Pizza, elevated wholesome menu choices out there at countertop coolers

Quick Break – Italian Fare – Caliente Pizza, pesto sandwich, open face Italian beef on a hoagie roll, Italian sausage soup; Wholesome Fare – grain bowl with alternative of protein, turkey membership wrap, hen Caeser wrap, buffalo hen wrap, falafel wrap, Caesar salad, Greek salad, cucumber Italian salad, combined berry cup, grape cup

ENHANCED AUDIO

Followers can anticipate an enhanced audio expertise this season with 3D modeling of the PEC sound methods that ensures audio protection of the bowl and suites evenly changing the “scorching spots” that existed throughout the earlier system. The power additionally added 98 new L-Acoustic audio system within the area bowl to offer extra readability at a lowered quantity stage, whereas additionally growing the intelligibility of the spoken PA audio to the bowl and the concourses. Integrating the audio system into the middle of the sector above the LED board permits the audio to face the followers guaranteeing an excellent protection for all seats, whereas including further subwoofers behind the brand new speaker arrays supplies crisp clear base all through the sector.

With extra correct and centered zoning for the speaker methods, the sector can now be zoned to accommodate its particular use instances. For instance, an added “court docket solely zone” permits the athletic groups to listen to audio on the court docket with out affecting the audio quantity within the area bowl or the workplaces within the area.  The addition of 405 new concourse audio system may even improve the readability and protection of all public deal with bulletins all through the constructing, whereas integrating the brand new concourse audio system into the sector security methods permits for extra protection of fireplace and security procedures.

Upgrading the sector management system may even enable suite holders to manage their very own audio in particular particular person suites, whereas new audio system within the foyer of the sector enable the house to be its personal zone with upgraded audio for athletic and particular occasions.

SECURE YOUR TICKETS TODAY
Pitt gives a number of nice ticket choices for each males’s basketball and girls’s basketball video games on the Petersen Occasions Middle, together with season, mini plan, single recreation and group charge tickets. Name the Panthers Ticket Workplace at 800-643-PITT or search HERE to buy your Pitt Basketball tickets now.