Staples Center

Staples Center is a sports arena in downtown Los Angeles, California at the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District. It is located near the intersection of Interstate highways I-10 and I-110. It is named for the Staples office-supply company, one of the center's corporate sponsors that paid for naming rights. The Anschutz Entertainment Group operates the facility.

Additional trivia

• 94 by 200 foot (29 by 61 m) arena floor.
• Arena stands 150 feet (46 m) tall.
• Load-in is accommodated through a floor- level dockway.
• 15,000 ft² (1,400 m²) marshaling area for event production
• Dock area can accommodate up to six television production vehicles.
• 12 locker and dressing rooms, including locker rooms for the Lakers, Clippers and Kings.
• Plenty of meeting rooms, including the Bank of America conference area on the suite level and additional rooms in the attached, three-story office tower.
• Hospitality facilities include a magnificent arena restaurant and club space on the suite level at one end of the arena, overlooking the arena floor.
• 8,900 parking spaces adjacent and around the arena within four city blocks.
• Full-service ticket window.
• 1,200 television monitors throughout the arena.
• 23 concession stands spread among the arena's five concourses reached by 11 escalators and ten elevators.
• 300-seat Fox Sports SkyBox restaurant, located on the main plaza.
• City View Grill, an outdoor restaurant with views of downtown Los Angeles.
• $2 million specialty lighting system.
• $1.5 million Bose sound system.
• Eight-sided, center-court scoreboard featuring 4 12-by-15-foot (4 by 5 m) Mitsubishi Diamondvision video screens and 4 9 by 12 foot (3 by 4 m) messageboards.
• 2 complete television control rooms
• 34 fixed camera positions.
• TeamLA merchandise store, located on plaza level and accessible from outside the arena.
• Arena measures 950,000 ft² (88,000 m²) of total space
• 2,500 tons of structural steel and 73,000 yd³ (56,000 m³) of concrete were used to build the Staples Center at a cost of $375 million.