ARCO Arena
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| ARCO Arena
<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Image:ARCOArenalogo.gif | |
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| Location | One Sports Parkway, Sacramento, California 95834 |
| Opened | 1988 |
| Owner | The Maloof family
<tr><td>Operator</td><td>The Maloof family</td></tr><tr><td>Construction cost</td><td>$40 million USD</td></tr><tr><td>Architect</td><td>Rann Haight</td></tr> |
| Tenants | |
| Sacramento Kings (NBA) (1988-present) Sacramento Monarchs (WNBA) (1997-present) Sacramento Attack (AFL) (1992) Sacramento Knights (CISL - WISL) (1993-2001) | |
| Seats | |
| Basketball: 17,317 | |
The ARCO Arena is an indoor arena located in Sacramento, California at . After playing in the make-shift facility called the Original ARCO Arena, this version was completed in 1988, at a cost of $40 million — entirely privately financed. It is home to the Sacramento Kings of the NBA and the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs. The arena seats 17,317 for basketball, and has 30 luxury suites and 412 club seats.
The arena has been noted for its loud character and continual at-capacity crowds, which, combined with wood floors, make it a tough environment for visiting teams. The arena has hosted the NCAA Tournament three times as a first and second rounds venue in 1994, 1998, and 2002, and will again in 2007. In 1993 and 1994, the arena also hosted several NHL exhibition and neutral site games. It will play host to the Ultimate Fight Championship's UFC 65 on November 18 2006.
ARCO Arena hosted a 1995 Billy Graham crusade which brought the four largest crowds in arena history.
There was another sports venue with that exact same name, which was known as the original ARCO Arena (1985-1988), where the Kings played their home games for three seasons (1985 to 1988), after moving from Kansas City. It had a capacity of 10,333 seats.
Many Kings fans have expressed discontent and become unhappy with the arena, which has become severely outdated (compared with the newest wave of NBA arenas built since the early 1990's) in terms of the number of luxury suites, amenities, concession stands, and diversity of entertainment options. ARCO Arena's simple, utilitarian architectural style is also seen as plain and uninspired when measured against these newer facilities around the league, many of which make rather bold and flamboyant design statements.
There has recently been a campaign by the Maloof family to build a new $600 million facility in Sacramento, which is to be taxpayer funded. This has caused anger among fans.
ARCO Arena is located in a once isolated area on the expanding northern outskirts of the city. At a construction cost of just $40 million, it is the cheapest built venue in the entire NBA.
The namesake sponsor of the arena, energy company ARCO, has had corporate sponsorship since the arena's inception as well as the original ARCO Arena. Those rights will expire in 2007.
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| Preceded by: ARCO Arena (First) 1985–1988 | Home of the Sacramento Kings 1988–present | Succeeded by: current |
| Current arenas in the Women's National Basketball Association | ||
| Eastern Conference | Western Conference | |
|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Bobcats Arena | Conseco Fieldhouse | Madison Square Garden | Mohegan Sun Arena | Palace of Auburn Hills | UIC Pavilion | Verizon Center | ARCO Arena | AT&T Center | KeyArena | Staples Center | Target Center | Toyota Center | US Airways Center | |
Categories: Basketball venues in the United States | Indoor arenas in the United States | Indoor ice hockey venues in the United States | 1988 establishments | Sacramento Kings | Sacramento Monarchs | Sacramento, California | Sports in Sacramento | Sports venues in California | National Basketball Association venues | Professional wrestling venues
