First Niagara Center, a premier sports and entertainment facility located in downtown Buffalo, New York, is best known as the home of the Buffalo Sabres. The Sabres, a National Hockey League team founded in 1970, stands third in the Northeast Division and ninth in the Eastern Conference. When Terrence Pegula bought the team in 2011, the Sabres were gaining a new owner who brought in a new vision of the arena’s appearance.

Pegula’s first act of business as new owner was to completely renovate the entire team area, including locker room, the visiting team’s locker space, training and medical facilities, the player’s lounge and the locker rooms for the Buffalo Bandits lacrosse and Canisius College hockey teams.

Publication: AWI Design Solutions, Winter 2013.