Daily's Place Amphitheater at EverBank Stadium

 DAILY'S PLACE AMPHITHEATER AT EVERBANK STADIUM

Full Name: Daily's Place Amphitheater at EverBank Stadium
Former Names: Jacksonville Jaguars Amphitheater (planning/construction)
Address: 1 Daily's Place Drive, Jacksonville, Florida 32202
Owner: City of Jacksonville, Florida
Operator: Bold Events
Seating Capacity: 5,500

Construction Began: August 19th, 2016 (broke ground), May 27th, 2017 (opened)
Construction Cost: $44.8 million dollars ($54.6 million in 2022 dollars)

Daily's Place Amphitheater at EverBank Stadium is an amphitheater located in Downtown Jacksonville, Florida. The venue is connected to the south end of EverBank Stadium and shares space with a "flex-field" indoor practice facility for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League. It opened in May 2017, and seats 5,500 spectators. Since 2019, the amphitheater has become nationally known as the home base for All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Naming rights for the venue were secured by Daily's, a local convenience store chain.

Daily's Place has been the home venue of All Elite Wrestling (AEW), a professional wrestling promotion that, like the Jaguars, are primarily owned by the Khan family. 

On July 13th, 2019, AEW hosted it's streaming live event Fight for the Fallen 2019 at Daily's Place. On March 18th and 25th, 2020, AEW temporarily moved it's weekly television program Dynamite, as well as it's web series AEW DARK, to Daily's Place, due to cancellations of it's traveling broadcasts due to the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. The tapings were held behind closed doors with no outside spectators; they used non-competing wrestlers and crew to serve as the live audience. After over a month's worth of television tapings were done at an "undisclosed location" to prevent fans from showing up (later revealed to be the Nightmare Factory training complex in Norcross, Georgia), AEW returned to Daily's Place to hold it's pay-per-view event Double or Nothing 2020 on May 23rd with TIAA Bank Field hosting a Stadium Stampede match as the main event of the PPV, re-located from Las Vegas due to the pandemic and travel restrictions at the time.

From that point on, Daily's Place became the AEW home base, with subsequent episodes of Dynamite, DARK and AEW PPVs originating from there during the pandemic period, with fans returning during the summer of 2020 at first in a limited capacity and then gradually increasing as time went on. The promotion returned to live touring on July 7th, 2021, though AEW continues to periodically return to Daily's Place for events, promoted by AEW as their "Homecoming" shows. The most recent one happened in January 2024 when AEW returned home to tape the January 10th, 2024, episode of Dynamite and the January 12th, 2024, episode of AEW Rampage from the venue. The last Homecoming event marked the first time AEW had been at Daily's Place since October 2022, although it was the first Homecoming special since 2021. 

List of Major Events to Take Place At  Daily's Place:

  • AEW Fight for the Fallen 2019 (July 13th, 2019)
  • AEW Dynamite: Homecoming 2020 (January 1st, 2020)
  • AEW Double or Nothing 2020 (May 25th, 2020)
  • AEW ALL OUT 2020 (September 5th, 2020)
  • AEW Full Gear 2020 (November 7th, 2020)
  • AEW Revolution 2021 (March 7th, 2021)
  • AEW Double or Nothing 2021 (May 30th, 2021)
  • Impact Wrestling Against All Odds 2021 (Main Event Only*) (June 12th, 2021)
  • AEW Dynamite: Homecoming 2021 (August 4th, 2021)
  • AEW Homecoming 2024: Night One (Dynamite) (January 10th, 2024)
  • AEW Homecoming 2024: Night Two (Rampage) (January 12th, 2024) 
*Note: Impact Wrestling's Against All Odds 2021's main event took place at Daily's Place and featured then-Impact World Champion defending the title against Moose. This was during Kenny Omega's 'belt collector' phase where he held the AEW World Championship, Impact World Championship and AAA Mega Championship! This was smack dab in the middle of the AEW/Impact working relationship where Omega and Don Callis were appearing on Impact and AEW at the time. 

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