As of 2019,[update] the city is seeking to redevelop the site with extensive stakeholder and public involvement to assess the community's goals.

Other music artists that have performed at the arena include The Beach Boys, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, The Rolling Stones, Mariah Carey, The Jackson 5, Metallica, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Elton John, Santana, Toto, Journey, Halsey Run-DMC, Coolio, Bruno Mars, No Doubt, America, Bread (band), Culture Club, Avenged Sevenfold, Janet Jackson, and Carrie Underwood.

The animal rampaged outside the arena for 30 minutes before police fired 87 rounds at the elephant, who eventually collapsed and died as a result of the shooting.

It served as the home court for University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa basketball until UH built the Stan Sheriff Center on campus in 1994.

Broadway productions such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Rent, Miss Saigon, Chicago, Cats, and other national touring shows have performed at the concert hall.

[8] In the fall and early winter of 2007 the concert hall was host to the Broadway musical The Lion King, a booking which displaced the Honolulu Symphony from its usual home and led to a major cash flow crisis for the orchestra.

On December 23, 1982, what is considered by many as the greatest upset in sports history happened at the Blaisdell Arena as the then number 1-ranked University of Virginia Cavaliers, led by future Hall of Famer Ralph Sampson, were beaten 77–72 by Chaminade University, a small NAIA school (today NCAA Division II) with a student body of 800.