TD Garden
"The Garden", "Boston Garden"'"Hockey town"
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Former names	Shawmut Center (1995) FleetCenter (1995 – February 10, 2005) various names (February 11 – March 13, 2005) TD Banknorth Garden (March 14, 2005 – July 16, 2009) TD Garden (July 17, 2009–present)
Location	100 Legends Way Boston, Massachusetts, 02114
Coordinates	42°21′58.69″N 71°3′44.02″W / 42.3663028°N 71.0622278°W / 42.3663028; -71.0622278Coordinates: 42°21′58.69″N 71°3′44.02″W / 42.3663028°N 71.0622278°W / 42.3663028; -71.0622278
Broke ground	April 29, 1993
Opened	September 30, 1995
Owner	Delaware North Companies
Operator	Delaware North Companies
Construction cost	$160 million ($244 million in 2012 dollars[1])
Architect	Ellerbe Becket, Inc.[2]
Structural engineer	LeMessurier Consultants[3]
Services engineer	Flack + Kurtz[2]
General Contractor	Morse Diesel International[4]
Capacity	NHL Hockey: 17,565 NBA Basketball: 18,624 Concerts: 20,000 Wrestling 19,100
Tenants
Boston Bruins (NHL) (1995–present) Boston Celtics (NBA) (1995–present) Boston Blazers (MILL) (1996–1997) Boston Blazers (NLL) (2009–2011)

TD Garden^[5] is a multi-purpose arena in Boston, Massachusetts. It is named after its sponsor, TD Bank, N.A. and is often simply referred to by local Bostonians as, The Garden, The Fleet Center, or the traditional Boston Garden.^{[citation needed]} It was formerly known as the FleetCenter and the Shawmut Center (title sponsor Shawmut Bank was bought by FleetBoston Financial before the arena opened). TD Bank, N.A. has been in control of the arena's naming rights since 2005, with the arena called TD Banknorth Garden until July 16, 2009, when the TD Banknorth name ceased to exist.

TD Garden is the home arena for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League and the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. It is the site of the annual Beanpot college hockey tournament, and hosts the annual Hockey East Championships. The arena has also hosted many major national sporting events including the 1999, 2003, and 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball regional first and second rounds, the 2009 and 2012 Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight, the 1998 Frozen Four,the 2004 Frozen Four, and the 2006 Women's Final Four. It also hosted the home games of the 2008 NBA Finals, 2010 NBA Finals, and the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals for the Celtics and Bruins, respectively.

History[link]

Construction[link]

Planners drew up designs for a new arena in the early 1990s after years of pressure on the owners of the Boston Bruins hockey club to replace the aging Boston Garden, which had been considered inadequate as a major league sports facility for many years. Plans for the new stadium stated that it would be slightly north of the old facility. The term "slightly north" ended up meaning that there was only nine inches (23 cm) of space between the two buildings when construction was completed.^[6] The site for the new stadium occupied 3.2 acres (13,000 m²). It eventually cost $160 million. Ground was broken on April 29, 1993. In 27 months, quick by today's standards, the stadium was built. That included seven weeks of delay caused by heavy snowfall.^[6] The Shawmut Center opened on September 30, 1995.

Naming[link]

When constructed to replace the aging Boston Garden as the home of the Boston Celtics basketball team and the Boston Bruins hockey team, the arena was called the FleetCenter. The arena opened on September 30, 1995.

During the construction phase, the naming rights to the "New Garden" were sold to a major Boston-based regional bank, Shawmut Bank. However, just as the Shawmut Center was being completed, Shawmut merged with its somewhat larger rival, the Providence-based Fleet Bank. The merger was negotiated in secret while Shawmut and Fleet's marketing departments were simultaneously engaged in a spirited bidding war for the arena's naming rights. The post-merger bank had effectively been bidding against itself. The bank which won the competition for the "New Garden's" naming rights, Shawmut, was the bank whose name disappeared during the merger. Shortly before the new arena opened, every seat, which had been stamped with the Shawmut logo, had to be replaced. Also, the entire color scheme for the interior had to be adjusted.

2004 Celtics game at the then named FleetCenter

The name of the arena was expected to change as a result of the April 1, 2004 merger of FleetBoston Financial with Bank of America. On January 5, 2005, FleetCenter's owner, Delaware North Companies, announced an agreement under which the bank made a payment to be released from the remaining six years on the naming rights agreement. The agreement left Delaware North free to sell the naming rights to another sponsor. On March 3, 2005, Maine-based TD Banknorth, a U.S. subsidiary of Toronto-Dominion Bank, announced its purchase of the naming rights for $6 million per year.^[7] The first major event after the announcement was the 2005 Hockey East men's tournament. The company named the facility "TD Banknorth Garden" in honor of the original Boston Garden. The name officially became the TD Banknorth Garden on July 1, 2005. Prior to that date, it went under the name "YourGarden."

In early 2005, while still searching for a long-term corporate sponsor, the FleetCenter conducted auctions on eBay to sell one-day naming rights. From February 10 to March 13, the FleetCenter sold the naming rights 30 different times on eBay. The net proceeds of $150,633.22 generated during the auction was donated to charities in the Greater Boston area, and $40,000 worth of My Grandma's Coffee Cakes was donated to local food banks. The FleetCenter also made private arrangements with a few companies for one-day naming rights, and offered one day's rights in an employee raffle.

The Boston Bruins's hockey rink in 2008

During the name auction, only twice were names reported to be rejected. Kerry Konrad, a New York City lawyer and Yankees fan, won naming rights for March 1 with a bid of $2300. He proposed the name "Derek Jeter Center," after the New York Yankees shortstop, a stab at fellow Harvard College alum and Boston Red Sox fan Jerry Rappaport, Jr., with whom he had a 25 year-old rivalry. Being in the heart of Red Sox Nation, the name did not sit well with the executives and was rejected. An agreement was reached in which Rappaport added $6300 for a total bid of $8600, representing the 86 years of the Curse of the Bambino, and named the arena "New Boston Garden, Home of The Jimmy Fund Champions." Fark.com founder Drew Curtis held a contest on his website to name the arena after he bought single-day rights. A user vote resulted in the "Fark.com UFIA Center" coming on top, but the name was rejected due to its inappropriate meaning. The name eventually selected by Curtis and company was "Boston Garden".

• Including its present name, the TD Garden has had 33 different names.
• Celtics players dubbed it "The Jungle" during the team's 2002 playoff run.

In April 2008, TD Banknorth became TD Bank, after a merger with Commerce Bancorp, a New Jersey–based bank. Owner Delaware North Companies announced on April 15, 2009, that the building would be renamed TD Garden in July 2009.^[8][9]

Renovations[link]

Before the 2006–07 season, the TD Garden underwent a major overhaul, installing a new HD entertainment board. For basketball, video advertising panels (installed by the NCAA for the 2006 Women's Final Four) replaced the traditional scrolling panels, and added a see-through shot clock, joining the FedExForum, Wachovia Center, Philips Arena, US Airways Center, United Center, Quicken Loans Arena, and the Time Warner Cable Arena. In addition, for hockey, a vintage siren, just as the original Boston Garden had used was added to replace the end-of-period horn, although the latter is still used for basketball.

Usage[link]

Sports[link]

Celtics in a game versus the Miami Heat at the TD Garden

The arena is primarily the home arena for the NHL's Boston Bruins and the NBA's Boston Celtics. The facility has also hosted the 2001 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the 1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, the 1996 and 2000 US Gymnastics Trials, the 1998 and 2004 NCAA Men's Frozen Four, the 1996 NHL All-Star Game, the 2008 and 2010 NBA Finals, and the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals.

The Celtics' trademark parquet floor at the TD Garden in 2010.

TD Garden is one of two NBA arenas (along with Amway Center, home of the Orlando Magic) with parquet floors. The Celtics are best known for the tradition of the parquet floor, originally built after World War II because of cost and the scarcity of lumber in that time. However, a traditional floor was used in the 2006 NCAA Women's Final Four and the 2009 NCAA Men's East Regional (NCAA rules require a special NCAA-specification floor be used for all tournament games). When the 2012 NCAA Men's East Regional was held at TD Garden, a lighter-shaded parquet floor was used, with the same NCAA-specific design.

Ricky Hatton began his 'American dream' here on May 13, 2006, he stepped up to welterweight to fight WBA world champion Luis Collazo. After knocking Collazo down after seconds into the first round, Hatton was made to work hard to earn a unanimous point win.

Other events[link]

The FleetCenter (at the time of the photo) hosting the 2004 Democratic National Convention. It also hosts many non-sporting events, such as concerts, shows, graduations, seminars, Disney on Ice, and the circus.

It also hosts Commencement exercises for Northeastern University.

It has hosted WWE's WrestleMania XIV in 1998, as well as King of the Ring 2000, Royal Rumble 2003, SummerSlam 2006, Survivor Series 2008, and Royal Rumble 2011. It has also been a regular stop for Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown. On September 29, 2009, it taped A Decade of SmackDown, the tenth anniversary of Friday Night SmackDown. The WWE held the 900th episode of Monday Night Raw at the Garden on August 30, 2010. On November 14, 2011, the WWE hosted a 3 hour edition of Raw, entitled "Raw Gets Rocked," that featured the return of The Rock. On March 5, 2012 the WWE hosted an episode of WWE Raw SuperShow. On September 16 2012 WWE will return to host Night of Champions 2012.

Comedians such as Tim Allen, Denis Leary, Chris Rock and Louis C.K., among many others, have all performed at the TD Garden during their nationwide tours.

On August 28, 2010, the TD Garden hosted UFC 118, which was the first time that the UFC held an event in Boston.^[10]

Diana Ross was scheduled to perform during her Return to Love Tour on July 13, 2000, but the show was canceled. In 2001, U2 recorded four consecutive concerts there for use on their Elevation 2001: Live from Boston DVD. David Bowie was scheduled to perform during his A Reality Tour on December 9, 2003, but the show was canceled, due to tour band illness. He returned and performed on March 30, 2004. Fleetwood Mac recorded and filmed their 2004 CD/DVD package Live in Boston at this venue. Bon Jovi recorded his Walmart Exclusive CD Live From the Have A Nice Day Tour which was recorded December 10, 2005. The Who and Genesis recorded live CDs as part of the Encore Series in 2006 and 2007, respectively. The filming of Celine Dion's Taking Chances World Tour took place on August 12–13, 2008. Miley Cyrus performed her hit songs in her Wonder World Tour on November 09, 2009. Lady Gaga brought her record-breaking Monster Ball Tour to TD Garden in 2010 and 2011. Katy Perry performed hit songs from her Teenage Dream album in her California Dreams Tour.

Museum[link]

Located in TD Garden is The Sports Museum (also known as "The Sports Museum of New England"). The museum's exhibits focus on the history of various sports in the Boston area, including the Boston Bruins and the Boston Celtics.

Facilities[link]

Just as the Boston Garden was, the TD Garden is built on top of Boston's North Station, a major transportation hub. The Commuter Rail waiting area becomes crowded during events due to this design: the fans shared a relatively small area with commuters and several fast food concessions. (There is a concourse on the second floor which is about the same size as the former main ground floor concourse, but this is utilized only as an entryway for the arena.) Work finished on the expanded North Station concourse in early 2007. A new, larger, railway concourse gives railway passengers a waiting area which does not interfere with patrons entering or leaving the Garden.

Connections to the Orange Line and Green Line are near the eastern entrance to the Garden. The Green Line formerly ran on an elevated train in front of the building: however, a Green Line tunnel was completed in 2004. (The original plan was to tear down the rail tracks before the 2004 Democratic National Convention, but in the end the tracks were purposely left up through the convention, to serve as a platform for security forces.) The elevated rail has since been demolished.

See also[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: TD Garden

• Boston Garden
• TD Ameritrade Park Omaha (Nebraska)
• TD Bank Ballpark (Bridgewater, New Jersey)
• TD Bank Sports Center (Hamden, Connecticut)
• Toronto Dominion Bank Arena (Charleston, South Carolina)
• List of indoor arenas by capacity

References[link]

External links[link]

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Renaissance garden in Pieskowa Skała, Poland

A kaiyu-shiki or strolling Japanese garden

Nicosia municipal gardens

The Sunken Garden of Butchart Gardens, Victoria, British Columbia

The back garden of the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, India

Flower-bed with the date in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is known as a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one. Zoos, which display wild animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological gardens.^[1][2] Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, with garden often signifying a shortened form of botanical garden.

The etymology of the word refers to enclosure: it is from Middle English gardin, from Anglo-French gardin, jardin, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German gard, gart, an enclosure or compound, as in Stuttgart. See Grad (Slavic settlement) for more complete etymology.^[3] The words yard, court, and Latin hortus (meaning "garden," hence horticulture and orchard), are cognates—all referring to an enclosed space.^[4]

The term "garden" in British English refers to a small enclosed area of land, usually adjoining a building.^[5] This would be referred to as a yard in American English.

Some traditional types of eastern gardens, such as Zen gardens, use plants such as parsley. Xeriscape gardens use local native plants that do not require irrigation or extensive use of other resources while still providing the benefits of a garden environment. Gardens may exhibit structural enhancements, sometimes called follies, including water features such as fountains, ponds (with or without fish), waterfalls or creeks, dry creek beds, statuary, arbors, trellises and more.

Some gardens are for ornamental purposes only, while some gardens also produce food crops, sometimes in separate areas, or sometimes intermixed with the ornamental plants. Food-producing gardens are distinguished from farms by their smaller scale, more labor-intensive methods, and their purpose (enjoyment of a hobby rather than produce for sale). Flower gardens combine plants of different heights, colors, textures, and fragrances to create interest and delight the senses.

Gardening is the activity of growing and maintaining the garden. This work is done by an amateur or professional gardener. A gardener might also work in a non-garden setting, such as a park, a roadside embankment, or other public space. Landscape architecture is a related professional activity with landscape architects tending to specialise in design for public and corporate clients.

Garden design[link]

Garden design is the creation of plans for the layout and planting of gardens and landscapes. Gardens may be designed by garden owners themselves, or by professionals. Most professional garden designers are trained in principles of design and in horticulture, and have an expert knowledge and experience of using plants. Some professional garden designers are also landscape architects, a more formal level of training that usually requires an advanced degree and often a state license.

Elements of garden design include the layout of hard landscape, such as paths, rockeries, walls, water features, sitting areas and decking, as well as the plants themselves, with consideration for their horticultural requirements, their season-to-season appearance, lifespan, growth habit, size, speed of growth, and combinations with other plants and landscape features. Consideration is also given to the maintenance needs of the garden, including the time or funds available for regular maintenance, which can affect the choices of plants regarding speed of growth, spreading or self-seeding of the plants, whether annual or perennial, and bloom-time, and many other characteristics. Garden design can be roughly divided into two groups, formal and naturalistic gardens.^[6]

The most important consideration in any garden design is, how the garden will be used, followed closely by the desired stylistic genres, and the way the garden space will connect to the home or other structures in the surrounding areas. All of these considerations are subject to the limitations of the budget. Budget limitations can be addressed by a simpler garden style with fewer plants and less costly hardscape materials, seeds rather than sod for lawns, and plants that grow quickly; alternatively, garden owners may choose to create their garden over time, area by area.

Elements of a garden[link]

Garden at the centre of intersection in Shanghai.

Naturalistic design of a Chinese garden incorporated into the landscape, including a pavilion

The elements of a garden consist of the following:

Natural conditions and materials:

• Soil
• Rocks
• Light
• Wind
• Water from Precipitation or other source
• Air
  • Pollution
  • Proximity to ocean (salinity)
• Plant materials

Constructed elements:

• Garden beds
• Paths
• Pool, water garden, or other water elements such as drainage system
• Terrace, patio, deck
• Lighting
• Sculpture,
• Buildings such as sheds, gazebos, pergolas and follies

Uses for the garden space[link]

A garden can have aesthetic, functional, and recreational uses:

• Cooperation with nature
  • Plant cultivation
• Observation of nature
  • Bird and insectwatching
  • Reflection on the changing seasons
• Relaxation
  • Family dinners on the terrace
  • Children playing in the garden
  • Reading and relaxing in the hammock
  • Maintaining the flowerbeds
  • Pottering in the shed
  • Basking in warm sunshine
  • Escaping oppressive sunlight and heat
• Growing useful produce
  • Flowers to cut and bring inside for indoor beauty
  • Fresh herbs and vegetables for cooking

Types of gardens[link]

A typical Italian garden at Villa Garzoni, near Pistoia

Checkered garden in Tours, France

Zen garden, Ryōan-ji

French formal garden in the Loire Valley

Bristol Zoo, England

Castelo Branco, Portugal

Hualien, Taiwan

El Escorial, Spain

Gardens may feature a particular plant or plant type(s);

• Back garden
• Bog Garden
• Cactus garden
• Fernery
• Flower garden
• Front garden
• Herb garden
• Mary garden
• Orangery
• Orchard
• Potager
• Rose garden
• Shade garden
• Vegetable garden
• Vineyard
• White garden
• Wildflower garden
• Winter garden

Gardens may feature a particular style or aesthetic:

• Alpine or rock garden
• Bonsai or miniature garden
• Children's Garden
• Chinese garden
• Dutch garden
• English landscape garden
• Gardens of the French Renaissance
• French formal garden
• French landscape garden
• Italian garden
• Japanese garden
• Knot garden
• Korean garden
• Mughal garden
• Native garden
• Persian garden
• Roman gardens
• Spanish garden
• Terrarium
• Trial garden
• Tropical garden
• Water garden
• Wild garden
• Xeriscaping
• Zen garden

Types of garden:

• Botanical garden
• Butterfly Garden
• Butterfly zoo
• Chinampa
• Cold Frame Garden
• Community garden
• Container garden
• Cottage garden
• Cutting garden
• Forest garden
• Garden conservatory
• Green wall
• Greenhouse
• Hanging garden
• Hydroponic garden
• Market garden
• Rain garden
• Raised bed gardening
• Residential garden
• Roof garden
• Sacred garden
• Sensory garden
• Square foot garden
• Vertical garden
• Walled garden
• Windowbox
• Zoological garden

Watering gardens[link]

See rainwater, sprinkler system, drip irrigation, tap water, greywater, hand pump and watering can.

History[link]

In art and literature[link]

• The Garden of Eden
• Romance of the Rose
• Nathaniel Hawthorne's short-story "Rappaccini's Daughter"
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera La finta giardiniera
• Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
• Elizabeth von Arnim's novels Elizabeth and Her German Garden and Solitary Summer
• John Steinbeck's short-story The Chrysanthemums
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Other similar spaces[link]

Other outdoor spaces that are similar to gardens include:

• A landscape is an outdoor space of a larger scale, natural or designed, usually unenclosed and considered from a distance.
• A park is a planned outdoor space, usually enclosed ('imparked') and of a larger size. Public parks are for public use.
• An arboretum is a planned outdoor space, usually large, for the display and study of trees.
• A farm or orchard is for the production of food stuff.
• A botanical garden is a type of garden where plants are grown both for scientific purposes and for the enjoyment and education of visitors.
• A zoological garden, or zoo for short, is a place where wild animals are cared for and exhibited to the public.

See also[link]

	Gardening portal
	Plants portal

Notes[link]

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Garden

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Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article garden.

Wikibooks' A Wikimanual of Gardening has more about this subject: gardening

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Ray Allen

Allen with the Celtics on January 13, 2008
No. 20 – Boston Celtics
Shooting guard
Personal information
Born	(1975-07-20) July 20, 1975 (age 36) Castle Air Force Base, near Merced, California
Nationality	American
High school	Hillcrest (Dalzell, South Carolina)
Listed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Listed weight	205 lb (93 kg)
Career information
College	Connecticut (1993–1996)
NBA Draft	1996 / Round: 1 / Pick: 5th overall
Selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves
Pro career	1996–present
Career history
1996–2003	Milwaukee Bucks
2003–2007	Seattle SuperSonics
2007–present	Boston Celtics
Career highlights and awards
NBA Champion (2008) 10× NBA All-Star (2000–2002, 2004–2009, 2011) All-NBA Second Team (2005) All-NBA Third Team (2001) NBA All-Rookie Second Team (1997) NBA Three-Point Shootout champion (2001) NBA Sportsmanship Award (2003) UPI Player of the Year (1996) Big East Player of the Year (1996) Consensus NCAA All-American First Team (1996) NBA all-time leader in three-point field goals
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Medals Men’s basketball Competitor for  United States Olympic Games Gold Sydney 2000 Team FIBA Americas Championship Gold 2003 San Juan Team Summer Universiade Gold 1995 Fukuoka Team

Walter Ray Allen (born July 20, 1975) is an American professional basketball player who is currently playing for the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association. He has played professionally for the Milwaukee Bucks, Seattle SuperSonics, and the Boston Celtics; and collegiately for the University of Connecticut Huskies. One of the most accurate 3-point and free throw shooters in NBA history,^[1][2] he is a ten-time NBA All-Star and won an Olympic gold medal as a member of the 2000 United States Men's Basketball Team. Allen has acted in two films, including a lead role in the 1998 Spike Lee film He Got Game. On 02011-02-10February 10, 2011, Allen became the NBA's all-time leader in regular season 3-point field goals made, surpassing Reggie Miller's mark of 2,560. On 02011-03-11March 11, 2011, Allen surpassed Miller's career total of 6,486 3-point field goal attempts.