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Staples Center
File:StaplesCenterLogo.JPG
Staples Center
Map
Location1111 S. Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, California 90015
OwnerL.A. Arena Company
Anschutz Entertainment Group
OperatorL.A. Arena Company
Anschutz Entertainment Group
CapacityBasketball: 18,997
Hockey: 18,118
Arena Football: 18,118
Concerts: 20,000
Construction
Broke groundMarch 31 1998
OpenedOctober 17 1999
Construction cost$375 Million USD
ArchitectNBBJ
Tenants
Los Angeles Lakers (NBA) (1999-present)
Los Angeles Clippers (NBA) (1999-present)
Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA) (2001-present)
Los Angeles Kings (NHL) (1999-present)
Los Angeles Avengers (AFL) (2000-present)
Los Angeles D-Fenders (D-League) (2006-present)

Staples Center is a multi-purpose sports arena in Downtown Los Angeles, California adjacent to the LA Live development. It is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex. Staples Center was financed privately at a cost of $375 Million and is named for the Staples office-supply company, one of the center's corporate sponsors that paid for naming rights.[1]

History

Staples Center opened on October 17 1999, with a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert, [2]and became a two-time winner of the Pollstar-CIC Arena of the Year award soon after.[3] It is home to the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA, the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL, the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA, and the Los Angeles Avengers of the AFL.[4] It is the only arena that is home to five professional sports franchises.[4]

The arena is host to 250 events and nearly 4,000,000 visitors a year.[3] Since its opening day, Staples Center has hosted the 2000 Democratic National Convention, the 2002 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the 52nd NHL All-Star game, the 2004 NBA All-Star Game, the Pac-10 Basketball Finals since 2002, the WTA Tour Championships from 2002 to 2005, the first Latin Grammy Awards in 2000, the annual Grammy Awards since 2000 with the exception of 2003, the Summer X Games indoor competitions since 2003, the UFC 60 pay per view event, as well as numerous Concerts and HBO Championship Boxing matches.[3]

In addition to hosting the attendance record setting WrestleMania 21 in 2005, Staples Center has also hosted Unforgiven 2002, Judgment Day 2004, and No Way Out 2007 as well as other World Wrestling Entertainment events.[4]

The arena

Staples Center seats up to 20,000 for concerts, 18,997 for basketball, and 18,118 for hockey and arena football.[3] Two-thirds of the arena's seating, including 2,500 club seats, are in the lower bowl. There are also 160 luxury suites, including 15 event suites, on three levels between the lower and upper bowls.[1] The arena's attendance record is held by WWE WrestleMania 21 with a crowd of 20,193 set on April 3, 2005.[5]

Future developments

Staples Center as seen from L.A. Live Plaza

Although Staples Center is already a Los Angeles landmark,[citation needed] it is only a part of a much larger 4,000,000-square-foot (371,612.2 m2) development by Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) adjoining Staples Center and the Los Angeles Convention Center. The development, known as L.A. Live, broke ground on September 15, 2005. L.A. Live is designed to offer entertainment, retail and residential programming in the downtown Los Angeles area.[6][7]

L.A. Live will feature entertainment venues, restaurants, retail commercial and residential spaces, television and radio broadcast studios, and concert spaces.[6] It will feature a four star 1,100 room convention center headquarters hotel known as The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, a 40,000-square-foot (3,716.1 m2) outdoor plaza, an ESPN broadcast and restaurant facility, Regal Theatres, as well as Club Nokia, the Nokia Theatre Los Angeles, and Nokia Plaza.[6]

Notes

  • Outside the arena are statues of Wayne Gretzky and Magic Johnson, although both sports legends played at the Great Western Forum, where the Kings, Lakers and Sparks previously played. (The Los Angeles Clippers previously played at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.)
  • In 2005, the lower bowl purple seats were reupholstered to black seats.[1]
  • Staples Center was named New Major Concert Venue (2000) and Arena of the Year (2000 and 2001) by Pollstar Magazine and has been nominated each year since its 1999 opening.[3]
  • Staples Center measures 950,000 square feet (88,257.9 m2) of total space, with a 94-foot (28.7 m) by 200-foot (61.0 m) arena floor. It stands 150 feet (45.7 m) tall.[1]
  • Load-in at the arena is accommodated through a floor-level dockway. There is a 15,000-square-foot (1,393.5 m2) marshaling area for event production, as well as a dock area designed to accommodate up to six television production vehicles.[1]
  • Staples Center features an eight-sided, center-court/Ice scoreboard featuring four 12-foot (3.7 m) by 15-foot (4.6 m) Mitsubishi DiamondVision video screens and four 9-foot (2.7 m) by 12-foot (3.7 m) messageboards. In addition, the arena contains two complete television control rooms and 34 fixed camera positions.[1]
  • 2,500 short tons (2,268 t) of structural steel and 73,000 square yards (61,037.3 m2) of concrete were used to build Staples Center at a cost of $375 million.[1]
  • In 2007, rock band Van Halen used the Staples Center as the venue for two rehearsal concerts before their Van Halen 2007-2008 Tour with original lead singer David Lee Roth.[citation needed]
  • In January of 2001, the crew of the television show Frasier, redressed the arena to appear to be Key Arena in Seattle. This for an episode of the series supposedly set at a Seattle Sonics game.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "L.A. Facilities" (Press release). Los Angeles Sports Council. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
  2. ^ STAPLES Center - Hoopedia
  3. ^ a b c d e "AEG Staples Center" (Press release). AEG Worldwide. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
  4. ^ a b c "About Staples Center" (Press release). AEG Worldwide. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
  5. ^ "WrestleMania 21 Highest Grossing WWE Event Ever at STAPLES Center" (Press release). World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. 2005-04-03. Retrieved 2007-12-26. {{cite press release}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ a b c "AEG L.A. Live" (Press release). AEG Worldwide. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
  7. ^ "L.A. Live timeline" (Press release). AEG Worldwide. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
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