In its first year of operation, 1971-72, the Richmond Coliseum sold more than 1 million tickets, booking the biggest acts on the planet: The Jackson 5, Elvis, Sonny & Cher, Aretha Franklin ...

The rest is dedicated to specific projects. The intrigue: City Council removed $2.5 million to demolish the Richmond Coliseum and transferred $2 million of that to RPS, increasing its total ...

The Richmond Speed, the area’s first arena football franchise (eight men on the field for each team), played their inaugural ...