The Pete Hanna Center is the building housing the 4,974-seat Thomas E. and Marla H. Corts Arena on the campus of Samford University in Homewood (a suburb of Birmingham), in the U.S. state of Alabama.
[3] The Pete Hanna Center opened on October 18, 2007, with a lecture by best-selling author Walter Isaacson.
The 101,000-square-foot (9,400 m2) Hanna Center seats 5,000 in Corts Arena and is the home to many Samford University commencement ceremonies, as well as playing host to concerts, high school basketball, and conferences.
The prestigious national high school basketball tournament was played December 29–30, 2009 at the Hanna Center.
The Hanna Center is also the host of the yearly Birmingham stop of the World Famous Harlem Globetrotters.