The Home of the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning Renamed Benchmark International Arena

The home of the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning renamed Benchmark International Arena

The home of the Tampa Bay Lightning has a new name. The NHL team announced Wednesday the nearly 30-year-old building in downtown Tampa is now called Benchmark International Arena as part of a multiyear agreement with the mergers and acquisitions company.

Changes are in the air…or at least on the side of the building

On Wednesday, a gaggle of higher-ups for the Tampa Bay Lightning gathered outside of a building that has brought a lot of joy to fans for almost three decades. It’s a building that has a few names in the past, and now, for an unspecified time into the future, will have a new one. It began life as the Ice Palace, celebrated the organization’s first Stanley Cup as the St. Pete Times Forum. Source

Tampa M&A firm buys naming rights to NHL arena

The Tampa Bay Lightning's home ice will now be called Benchmark International Arena.