The street address is 500 David J. Stern Walk - named for the NBA commissioner whose refusal to let the Kings leave town made the building possible. Golden 1 Center, in downtown Sacramento, opened on 4 October 2016 with two nights of Paul McCartney, replacing the suburban Sleep Train Arena and anchoring the downtown renaissance the city had chased for decades. The arena's green credentials rewrote industry standards: it was the world's first indoor sports venue certified LEED Platinum and the first professional venue powered entirely by solar - a 1.2-megawatt rooftop array supplemented by an 11-megawatt solar farm at Rancho Seco. Five giant aircraft-hangar doors open the northeast entrance to Sacramento's nightly Delta Breeze, cooling the building the way the valley has always cooled itself. Designed by AECOM and built for about 557 million dollars, the arena seats 17,608 for Kings basketball and expands toward 19,000 for concerts, with 34 luxury suites and 48 loft-style suites. The indoor-outdoor design reverses the introverted arena formula, spilling into the Downtown Commons (DOCO) plaza of restaurants, shops and the Kimpton Sawyer hotel that rose around it. The Kings' return to relevance peaked with the 2023 playoffs - the first home playoff win in the building igniting the famous purple beam - while the calendar between games runs deep with arena tours, NCAA March Madness rounds, Disney on Ice and UFC cards. The food program, sourced largely within 150 miles, is regularly ranked among the best in American sport. Logistics: light rail's Blue, Gold and Green lines stop a block away at St. Rose of Lima Park, and downtown garages surround DOCO. Come early on event nights - the plaza itself is half the experience. The building also set technology benchmarks at opening: its centre-hung 4K scoreboard was the largest in the NBA at the time, and the arena's network was engineered to handle more wireless traffic than any US venue before it - a deliberate play by a Kings ownership group led by tech investor Vivek Ranadive. The event resume has grown accordingly, from NCAA March Madness opening rounds within six months of opening to the biggest touring acts in music, and the arena regularly ranks among the highest-grossing venues of its size in North America.

Type: Stadium / Arena

Address: 500 David J Stern Walk, Sacramento, CA, United States, 95814

Website: https://www.golden1center.com

Capacity: 17608

Opening Date: 04/10/2016

Serves Food

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