CHARLESTON, W.Va. – It’s a brand new day for the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center as city officials unveiled a $5.2 million renovation to the facility highlighted by all-new seats in the arena.

For those involved in the process, the new seats represent more than just a place to sit for a show or game.

“They’re new seats. There’ll be new stories, but what you heard today was people being reflective about why this building and why this coliseum mean so much to them,” Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin said.

As part of the renovations, the old seats were removed, along with the 15 pounds of gum scraped off of them, before the handrails, fascia, and steps were painted, and finally the 9,876 new chairs were installed. With most of the previous seats being original to the building, Charleston

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