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| Location | 1111 S. Figueroa Street Los Angeles, California 90015 |
| Broke ground | March 31, 1998 |
| Opened | October 17, 1999 |
| Owner | L. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Events 539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) A. Arena Company Anschutz Entertainment Group |
| Operator | L. The Anschutz Entertainment Group ( AEG) is a sporting and music entertainment presenter and a subsidiary of The Anschutz Corporation. A. Arena Company Anschutz Entertainment Group |
| Construction cost | $375 Million USD |
| Architect | NBBJ |
| 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) |
| Capacity | Basketball: 18,997 Hockey: 18,118 Arena Football: 18,118 Concerts: 20,000 |
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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. Events 539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Pollstar is the world's largest resource for international concert tour information [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. The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles California. The National Hockey League ( NHL) is a professional Ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America The Los Angeles Sparks are a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA team based in Los Angeles California. The Los Angeles Avengers is an Arena Football League (AFL team based in Los Angeles California and they began play as a 2000 expansion team The Arena Football League (AFL was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. [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. The 2000 National Convention of the US Democratic Party nominated Vice President Al Gore for President and Connecticut The US Figure Skating Championships is an annual Figure skating competition organized by U The 52nd National Hockey League All-Star Game took place on February 2 2002 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles California. The 2004 National Basketball Association All-Star Game was played on February 15, 2004 in The Pacific-10 Conference ( Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. The WTA Tour Championships is a Tennis tournament played annually at the end of the season for the top-ranked players on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA The Latin Grammy Awards were launched in 2000 with a telecast aired on CBS. The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences The X Games is an annual event with a focus on extreme action sports UFC 60 Hughes vs Gracie was a Mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on May 27, 2006. A concert is a live Performance, usually of Music, before an Audience. HBO World Championship Boxing is a sports television series, premiering in January 1973 that has shown a number of significant boxing events in the last three decades [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. WrestleMania 21 was the twenty-first annual WrestleMania Professional wrestling Pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment Unforgiven is an annual Professional wrestling Pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment, which has been held in September since the Judgment Day is an annual Professional wrestling Pay-per-view produced by World Wrestling Entertainment. No Way Out (2007 was the ninth annual No Way Out Pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE World Wrestling Entertainment Inc ( WWE) is a publicly traded privately controlled integrated media (focusing in Television, Internet, [4]
The arena
Staples Center seats up to 20,000 for concerts, 18,997 for basketball, and 18,118 for hockey and arena football. A concert is a live Performance, usually of Music, before an Audience. Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team Sport played on Ice. This article is about the sport of Arena Football See Arena Football (video game for the EA Sports Video game of the same name [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. World Wrestling Entertainment Inc ( WWE) is a publicly traded privately controlled integrated media (focusing in Television, Internet, WrestleMania 21 was the twenty-first annual WrestleMania Professional wrestling Pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [5]
Future developments
Although Staples Center is already a Los Angeles landmark, 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. Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a Convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The development, known as L.A. Live, broke ground on September 15, 2005. LA Live is currently under construction in Downtown Los Angeles, California. Events 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse Italy. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 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. This article is about the hotel brand Ritz-Carlton Hotels for other uses please see Ritz (disambiguation Ritz-Carlton is a brand of luxury hotel 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. ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to Regal Entertainment Group ( is the largest Movie theatre chain in North America, operating 6423 screens in 529 locations in 41 U Nokia Corporation (pronunciation /'nɔkiɑ/),,) is a Finnish multinational Communications Corporation, headquartered [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. Wayne Douglas Gretzky, OC (born January 26 1961 is a retired Canadian professional Ice hockey player The Forum, known for a time as the Great Western Forum, is an indoor arena in Inglewood California, a suburb of Los Angeles. (The Los Angeles Clippers previously played at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena is a multipurpose sports Arena in the University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles California at Exposition )
- In 2005, the lower bowl purple seats were reupholstered to black seats. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [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. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) [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. The, Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies is a Japanese conglomerate consisting of a range of autonomous businesses which share the Mitsubishi 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 MT) 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. Van Halen is a Hard rock band formed in in 1972 They enjoyed success from the release of their self titled debut album in 1978 David Lee Roth (often referred to as "Diamond Dave" (born October 10 1954 Bloomington Indiana) is an American rock Vocalist
- In January of 2001, the crew of the television show Frasier, redressed the arena to appear to be Key Arena in Seattle. Frasier is an American sitcom, a Spin-off of Cheers starring Kelsey Grammer as This for an episode of the series supposedly set at a Seattle Sonics game. The Seattle SuperSonics (also called the Seattle Sonics) were an American professional Basketball team based in Seattle Washington that played
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Los Angeles Sports Council. LA Live is currently under construction in Downtown Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a Convention center in downtown Los Angeles. "L.A. Facilities". Press release. A news release, media release, press release or press statement is a written or recorded Communication directed at members of the News Retrieved on 2008-01-01. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC
- ^ STAPLES Center - Hoopedia
- ^ a b c d e AEG Worldwide. "AEG Staples Center". Press release. A news release, media release, press release or press statement is a written or recorded Communication directed at members of the News Retrieved on 2008-01-01. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC
- ^ a b c AEG Worldwide. "About Staples Center". Press release. A news release, media release, press release or press statement is a written or recorded Communication directed at members of the News Retrieved on 2008-01-01. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC
- ^ World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc (2005-04-03). Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. "WrestleMania 21 Highest Grossing WWE Event Ever at STAPLES Center". Press release. A news release, media release, press release or press statement is a written or recorded Communication directed at members of the News Retrieved on 2007-12-26. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht.
- ^ a b c AEG Worldwide. "AEG L.A. Live". Press release. A news release, media release, press release or press statement is a written or recorded Communication directed at members of the News Retrieved on 2008-01-01. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC
- ^ AEG Worldwide. "L.A. Live timeline". Press release. A news release, media release, press release or press statement is a written or recorded Communication directed at members of the News Retrieved on 2008-01-01. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC
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