North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre, Open-air concert venue in Chula Vista, United States.
North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre is an open-air amphitheatre in Chula Vista, California, near Sesame Place San Diego. It has 9,468 chair-back seats and 10,024 lawn seats. The site was once a dairy farm and later an industrial park before Universal Concerts had it bulldozed and graded for the venue.
The site was a dairy farm and later an abandoned industrial park before Universal Concerts won city approval to build the venue, which opened as Coors Amphitheatre on July 21, 1998, the first of its kind in San Diego County. The Spice Girls played its first sell-out show on August 21, 1998. House of Blues bought the Universal Concerts facilities in late 1999, and Live Nation acquired House of Blues in July 2006. Naming rights passed from Cricket Wireless (2008) to Sleep Train (2013) to Mattress Firm (2017) to North Island Credit Union (2018).
The venue's name has changed with each sponsorship: Coors, Cricket Wireless, Sleep Train, Mattress Firm and, since November 2018, North Island Credit Union, a San Diego lender holding a ten-year naming deal. Artists who have played here range from the Spice Girls, who sold out the venue on August 21, 1998, to Iron Maiden, Kiss, Destiny's Child, Phish and Peso Pluma.
The amphitheatre sits near Sesame Place San Diego in Chula Vista, and its 9,468 chair-back seats plus 10,024 lawn seats mean lawn ticket holders should plan for open-air seating. Spring, summer and fall host most first-tier tours, so check the season before booking.
The site was once a fully developed industrial park with terraced lots and utilities, abandoned for years before Universal Concerts won city approval to build the amphitheatre; the park was bulldozed and the land graded. The first sell-out concert, on August 21, 1998, was the Spice Girls.
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