The basketball club Prokom Gdynia also used the facility for home Euroleague fixtures.
In September 1981, the first Congress of Solidarity, the Polish trade union, was held here.
This is one of the few remaining sports arenas left of this particular socialist modernism style otherwise called Brutalism.
Two other examples of this design style are the closed Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports in Vilnius Lithuania, and the now destroyed Volgar Sports Palace in Tolyatti, Russia.
The arena hosted a preliminary round group of the EuroBasket 2009.