Henderson sports arena being renamed Lee’s Family Forum

People stitchery extracurricular The Dollar Loan Center arena successful Henderson Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Photo by Wade Vandervort

The Dollar Loan Center successful Henderson is being renamed Lee’s Family Forum, officials said this morning.

Officials volition people the renaming of the 5,567-seat sports arena disconnected Green Valley Parkway and the 215 Beltway up successful a ceremonial anterior to Wednesday night's Henderson Silver Knights insignificant league hockey game.

The 200,000-square-foot installation is a concern betwixt the metropolis of Henderson and the Vegas Golden Knights. It hosts the Silver Knights, Vegas Knight Hawks indoor shot squad and the Vegas Thrill, a nonrecreational women’s volleyball team.

The caller sanction comes via a multiyear hold of Foley Entertainment Group’s concern with Lee’s Discount Liquors, officials said. Arena signage is being replaced this week.

“This is simply a fantastic tribute to the Lee household and the lasting interaction they proceed to person crossed the Las Vegas Valley,” Kerry Bubolz, Foley Entertainment Group president and CEO, said successful a statement. “Family is astatine the bosom of what we connection astatine Lee’s Family Forum, truthful it’s a fitting solemnisation of a household we person been fortunate to cognize and enactment alongside for years.”

The household has been a beardown protagonist of the Golden Knights since 2015, erstwhile squad proprietor Bill Foley started moving to bring the enlargement franchise to Southern Nevada.

Visitors to the Henderson arena volition spot a ocular past of the Lee household and Lee’s Discount Liquor, which was founded successful 1981 by the precocious Hae Un Lee. The concern was aboriginal operated by Kenny Lee, who died successful November 2021 in a car crash.

“For our business, this is an breathtaking accidental to grow upon our concern with the Foley Entertainment Group and beforehand our institution to the passionate fans of the Henderson Silver Knights, Vegas Knight Hawks, Vegas Thrill, and each of the different events astatine (the arena),” Nami Lee, CEO of Lee’s Discount Liquor, said successful a statement.

“On a idiosyncratic level, we’re naming this arena arsenic a acquisition to our beloved Kenny and Mr. Lee, due to the fact that they are nary longer with us, but we privation to proceed honoring their legacies and remembering them,” Lee said. “We besides privation this arena to beryllium a acquisition to the families successful the Henderson community, wherever our family-owned institution is headquartered, for galore years to come.”

The arena has been location to much than 350 events successful its 2 years of existence. Henderson initially invested $42 cardinal successful the concern with Foley Entertainment Group, which besides enactment up $42 cardinal for the project.

“In Henderson, we dainty each different similar household truthful it is simply a cleanable acceptable to invited the Lee household into our fold,” Henderson Mayor Michelle Romero said successful a statement.

“Our residents bask the divers and increasing sports and amusement options astatine Lee’s Family Forum and we look guardant to our continued concern with the Foley Entertainment Group and the Golden Knights organization,” Romero said.

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