The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will officially open the $10.4 million facility this afternoon.
The Commonwealth contributed almost half of the funding needed for the project.
The new building boasts state of the art indoor and outdoor Netball and Basketball Courts, as well as conference rooms able to cater for more than 200 people.
Sports Dome Manager, Kathy Barber, says its the most multi-functional sports facility in Regional New South Wales.
She says its already says the sports dome is already attracting large events they were unable to host in the past.
"Next week we're hosting a dinner for Essential Energy for a couple of hundred people, last week we held a training course for 75, this week we kick off the NSW Primary School Girls Basketball State Championships, with 14 teams from across NSW travelling to Tamworth, looking to compete to be the champions for 2011.
"There's a considerable number of sporting opportunities for the sports of basketball, netball, hockey, and those type of sports.
"But we also offer training facilities, we have meeting rooms where people can hold functions, so we have all those additional opportunities for the community to utilise the facility and we also offer little things like birthday parties for kids," she said.
Ms. Barber says it's both exciting and appropriate to have the Prime Minister officially open the facility.
"To be having a senior federal politician, committing money to the building and the council project in the first place is a great honour for Tamworth Council and certainly it's been really well done for the community.
"It will be very special to have the place officially opened by the federal government and acknowledging their support for the Tamworth community.
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