Sure, the NBA San Antonio Spurs will play 41 regular season home games in the new SBC Center. But the new $175 million arena is the true definition of a multi-use facility. It also will be home to the San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo, the American Hockey League San Antonio Rampage and a future WNBA team. Country legend George Strait will perform the first concert in the new facility, and the Rolling Stones will make a tour stop this year as well.
WHERE:
San Antonio, Texas
2 ½ miles east of downtown, directly east of the Joe & Harry Freeman Coliseum at Houston and Coliseum Roads
FEATURES:
• A 700,000-square foot arena for basketball and rodeo, with other uses to include ice hockey, concerts and the circus
• Seating bowl geometry will be based on the dimensions of a basketball court for maximum intimacy for basketball events
• Seating capacity is 18,500 for NBA basketball; 17,000 for rodeo; 13,000 for hockey; and 19,000 for concerts with the stage in the center of the arena
• The arena floor is sunken 28 feet below street-level, making more than half the seats accessible from street-level
• Courtside club seating, 40 terrace suites and 16 courtside suites (all 56 have interactive Internet and television systems)
• Fan amenities include a terrace restaurant, two Saddles and Spurs Clubs, a sports bar and a FANFiesta!
• Parking spaces are available for 7,000 cars for Spurs games
BACKGROUND:
The SBC Center is Ellerbe Becket’s 15th NBA/NHL arena. Others include Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, America West Arena in Phoenix, the Fleet Center in Boston, First Union Center in Philadelphia, Gund Arena in Cleveland and the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. An innovator since its founding in 1909, Ellerbe Becket is a leader in architecture, engineering and the construction industry with office locations worldwide. Ellerbe Becket teamed with San Antonio firms Lake / Flato and Kell Munoz on the SBC Center design.
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