Staples Center
is a multi-purpose sports arena in Downtown Los Angeles, California adjacent to the L.A. 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]
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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.
The arena is host to 250 events and nearly 4,000,000 visitors a year.
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.
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.
The arena
Staples Center seats up to 20,000 for
concerts, 18,997 for
basketball, and 18,118 for
hockey and
arena football.
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.
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
Although Staples Center is already a Los Angeles landmark, it is only a part of a much larger 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.
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Trivia
- 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.)
- Staples Center measures of total space, with a by arena floor. It stands tall.
- Load-in at the arena is accommodated through a floor-level dockway. There is a marshaling area for event production, as well as a dock area designed to accommodate up to six television production vehicles.
- Staples Center features an eight-sided, center-court/Ice scoreboard featuring four by Mitsubishi DiamondVision video screens and four by messageboards. In addition, the arena contains two complete television control rooms and 34 fixed camera positions.
- of structural steel and of concrete were used to build Staples Center at a cost of $375 million.
- 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.
- In January of 2001, the crew of the television show Frasier
redressed the arena to appear to be KeyArena in Seattle. This was for an episode of the series supposedly set at a Seattle SuperSonics game.
- In 2005, the lower bowl purple seats were reupholstered to black seats.
See also
- L.A. Live
- Los Angeles Convention Center
References
- L.A. Facilities
- STAPLES Center - Hoopedia
- AEG Staples Center
- About Staples Center
- WrestleMania 21 Highest Grossing WWE Event Ever at STAPLES Center
- AEG L.A. Live
- L.A. Live timeline