Ice Palace

The St. Pete Times Forum is a sports arena in Tampa, Florida. It opened in 1996 as the Ice Palace and was built for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League, and is also the home of the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League. Both of these teams relocated to the Ice Palace from the former Florida Suncoast Dome, a domed stadium in St. Petersburg now known as Tropicana Field.

Naming rights to the Ice Palace were sold to the St. Petersburg Times, a daily newspaper which circulates throughout the Tampa Bay area. Other entertainment events occasionally held in the Forum include concerts and figure skating.