On this day in Boston Celtics history, the storied franchise’s current home venue, TD Garden, opened for business in 1995. Created as a replacement for the outdated and undersized original Boston Garden — located a mere nine inches to the south of the recurrent building during its construction — the new venue was officially opened on this date on the day after a similar celebratory closing event was held in the original Boston Garden.
Relocation rumbles began as far back as the 1970s when the Boston Bruins nearly moved to New Hampshire, and the Celtics considered relocating to Revere, Massachusetts.
Rights for a new arena were granted in 1985, but concrete plans did not materialize for most of a decade, with funding for construction secured in 1993, and construction beginning in April of that year.