Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:34:00

A Depression-era WPA project grew into Florida's big-event workhorse. Camping World Stadium at 1 Citrus Bowl Place in Orlando's West Lakes neighbourhood began in 1936 as Orlando Stadium, built by the Works Progress Administration for 115,000 dollars with seating for 8,900 beside the old Tinker Field ballpark. The inaugural Tangerine Bowl on New Year's Day 1947 - Catawba beating Maryville 31-6 - started the bowl-game tradition that named the stadium for decades, and successive expansions in 1952, 1968 and the mid-1970s two-tier rebuild lifted capacity past 50,000. The modern building is essentially new. A 38-million-dollar 1989 expansion added the corner ramp towers and upper decks of the Florida Citrus Bowl era; the transformative 207.7-million-dollar reconstruction of 2014 demolished and rebuilt ninety percent of the stadium, delivering 41,000 lower-bowl seats with chairbacks and extra legroom, two 360-degree concourses, giant video boards and club spaces for 5,000; and a 60-million-dollar 2021 project added the north end's second deck. Camping World bought the naming rights in 2016, and a 400-million-dollar modernisation begun in late 2025 - rebuilding the upper bowls and adding an events center - will push permanent capacity to about 65,000 by summer 2027. The event resume is enormous: the annual Citrus Bowl and Pop-Tarts Bowl college games, Florida Classic, NFL Pro Bowls, the 1994 World Cup and 2016 Copa America Centenario, WrestleManias 24 and 33, Monster Jam, and stadium tours from the Rolling Stones to Taylor Swift, whose 2025 Eras-scale bookings underline the venue's concert role. Orlando City SC called it home before its own stadium opened. Sitting a mile west of downtown by Lake Lorna Doone, the stadium anchors Orlando's venues portfolio alongside the Kia Center and Dr. Phillips Center - the ninety-year-old grandfather of the family, rebuilt so many times that almost nothing of 1936 remains except the address and the job: filling Central Florida's biggest nights.