The Dome was also the venue of the gymnastics and figure skating events during the 1990 Goodwill Games, and home to numerous other minor-league ice hockey and indoor soccer teams. It also hosted the Tacoma Rockets of the WHL from 1991 to 1995, the Tacoma Sabercats of the WCHL from 1997 to 2002, and the Tacoma Stars indoor soccer team of the MISL from 1983 to 1992. It was the Seattle SuperSonics' home floor for the 1994–95 season while the Seattle Center Coliseum was being renovated, and was used for various regular Sonics games during other seasons. The dome's first event was a concert by British musician David Bowie as part of his Serious Moonlight Tour on August 11, 1983.

It can also host American football, albeit with seating reduced to 10,000. Unlike most other arenas of its size, the arena contains little in the way of fixed seating, so as to maximize the flexibility of the seating arrangements and the shape of the playing field. The wood which was used to make the roof came from trees that were downed in the 1980 eruption of Mount St. It is the largest arena with a wooden dome in the world |work=Tacoma Dome Official Website |access-date=February 6, 2017|archive-url= |archive-date=July 1, 2011}} (the Superior Dome in Marquette, Michigan, is a larger-diameter geodesic dome at 536 feet (163 m), but is 143 feet (44 m) high and seats a maximum of 16,000). At 530 feet (160 m) in diameter and 152 feet (46 m) in height, the arena seats 20,722 for basketball games, with a maximum capacity of 21,000.

Upon winning an international design competition, local architects McGranahan and Messenger completed the Tacoma Dome at a cost of $44 million it opened on April 21, 1983.

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