The DCU Center (originally Worcester Centrum, formerly Worcester Centrum Centre and commonly The Centrum) is an indoor arena and convention center complex, located in downtown Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.The facility hosts a variety of events, including concerts, sporting events, family shows, conventions, trade-shows and meetings. It is owned by the City of Worcester and managed by SMG, a private management firm for public assembly facilities.

Worcester Centrum, as it was then known, opened in September 1982 after years of construction delays, with a capacity of roughly 12,000. The opening event was a Frank Sinatra concert. The arena was expanded to 14,800 seats in 1989 with the addition of the 300-level balconies. The convention center addition was completed along with a renovation of arena infrastructure in 1997.This upgrade resulted in the facility's name change to Worcester's Centrum Centre. The venue received further updates with the DCU naming rights purchase, including new signage both inside and outside the facility, and a new center-hung video scoreboard for the arena bowl.
Previously, the arena was managed by Rich Kreswick, who afterward spent a brief time at the FleetCenter (Boston) and in the mid 90's, the general manager position transferred to Sandy Dunn. Sandy is one of few women to manage an arena venue, and the DCU Center is one of the most stable of SMG's assets.

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