Arco Arena information
ARCO Arena is an indoor arena located in Sacramento, California, United States.
After playing in the makeshift facility called the Original ARCO Arena, this version was completed in 1988, at a cost of $40 million—entirely privately financed.
This widely popular stadium is the home of the NBA's Sacramento Kings 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, once made it a tough environment for visiting teams.
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.
ARCO Arena is located in a once isolated area on the expanding northern outskirts of the city. It was constructed at a cost of just $40 million, the lowest of any venue in the NBA. It is the smallest arena in the NBA by size and second smallest by seating capacity (17,317).
Only Orlando's Amway Arena (17,248) has a smaller seating capacity for NBA basketball. In 2006, there was a campaign to build a new $600 million facility in downtown Sacramento, which was to be funded by a quarter cent sales tax increase over 15 years; voters overwhelmingly rejected ballot measures Q and R, leading to the NBA publicly calling for a new arena to be built at another well-known Sacramento facility, Cal Expo, the site of California's state fair.
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. On March 19, 2007, the Maloof brothers announced a multi-year agreement extending the naming rights of ARCO Arena.
ARCO Arena set a Guinness World Record for loudest sports roar by reaching over 130 decibels on November 8, 2006 during a Kings game against the Detroit Pistons.
In addition, there is an instrumental song called "Arco Arena" on the album Comfort Eagle by Sacramento band Cake.
ARCO Arena has hosted several state High School Basketball championship games (1992, 1996, and 1998–2008).
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