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The London Dockland Arena {Link without Title} was an Basketball team and later the Greater London Leopards Basketball team (from nearby Tower Hamlets ). Docklands Arena also hosted pop concerts, plays, boxing matches and wrestling events. In 1991, Docklands Arena hosted the Great British Beer Festival . It never managed to become a financial success, in part due to its fairly poor transport access, and in 2005 it closed. It has been superseded as the main arena in East London by The O2 Arena , which is in The O2 entertainment complex (formerly the Millennium Dome), and the new 12,500 seat Croydon Arena expected to be opened in 2011. In December 2005, it housed the annual 'Crisis Open Christmas' event (held the previous year in the Dome), organised by the London-based charity Crisis . This provides food, accommodation, various medical and social services and company to around 1,500 guests and 3,500 volunteers each Christmas. The London Arena was demolished in June 2006 and is set to be replaced by a mainly residential development [http://www.skyscrapernews.com/london_arena1.jpg . London Arena was served by the Crossharbour And London Arena DLR Station , which has since been renamed to simply Crossharbour in 2007. The site of the arena is now being developed into high-scale apartments. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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