Line Up
includes: Maroon 5, Flo-Rida, The
Wanted, Wiz Khalifa, Gym Class
Heroes, Dev, DJ Havana Brown, Chris
Rene, Karmin. Cricket Wireless
Amphitheatre, formerly known as
Coors Amphitheatre, is a 19,492-seat
amphitheatre located in Chula Vista,
California. It is the largest
concert venue of its size in the San
Diego area. The venue is owned and
operated by Live Nation.
Area around the
amphitheatre had previously been
open fields and at one time been
part of a large dairy farm. At one
point the 72 acres where the
amphitheater sits was a fully
developed industrial park with
terraced lots in utilities in place.
The site had lain fallow for a
number of years, when Universal
Concerts approached the city of
Chula Vista and won approval to
build the amphitheatre. The
industrial park was bulldozed and
the site graded to build the
amphitheatre. In the late 1990s, a
development plan was created and a
water park and concert venue were
planned for the area. White Water
Canyon (now Knott's Soak City)
opened in 1997, while Coors
Amphitheatre opened July 21, 1998,
the first venue of its kind in San
Diego County. A month later, on
August 21, 1998 the venue hosted its
first sell-out concert with the
Spice Girls. All of the Universal
Concerts facilities, including Coors
Amphitheatre, were purchased by
House of Blues in late 1999. Live
Nation purchased House of Blues,
including 8 amphitheaters and eleven
clubs, in July of 2006.
In April 2008,
the venue was renamed Cricket
Wireless Amphitheatre after naming
rights were purchased by Cricket
Communications, Inc. The
Amphitheatre features 9,468
chairback seats and 10,024 lawn
seats. During the spring, summer and
fall months it is used for most
first-tier concert tours, due
primarily to its capacity (there are
more seats at the Amphitheatre than
at the San Diego Sports Arena.)
