Highlight Reel Spring 2009 By Roneil Grant: The Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA

The Staples Center is one of the busiest Arenas in the World with over 250 event days a year! On some days they have 2 basketball games for the Clippers at 1230 PM and then the Lakers at 6 30 PM.

There are over 1,200 TV monitors and 5 concourses. The restaurants are: SkyBox restaurant on the main plaza, the Royal Room on main concourse, the Arena Club and Grand Reserve Club above the premier seating level, and the outdoor City View Grille, with incredible views of the downtown skyline.

Staples Center has a Specialty $2M lighting package for concerts, a $1.5 Million Bose Sound System, a Mitsubishi 8 Sided Scoreboard/Video Display, and a DakTronics Video Screen along the Upper Seating Level Facade.

AEG also has added an entertainment Complex called LA Live! The multi-faceted entertainment destination will feature entertainment venues, restaurants, retail commercial and residential spaces, television and radio broadcast studios, and concert spaces. Highlights of the district will include a four star 1,100 room convention center headquarters hotel known as The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, a 40,000 ft² outdoor plaza, an ESPN broadcast and restaurant facility, Regal Theatres, as well as Club Nokia, the Nokia Theatre Los Angeles, and Nokia Plaza. Nokia Theatre Los Angeles will be a premier mid-sized music and theatre venue featuring state-of-the-art acoustics and seating for 7,000. http://www.lalive.com/

The Arena has 2,500 tons of structural steel and 73,000 yd³ (56,000 m³) of concrete. Staples Center measures 950,000 ft² (88,000 m²) of total space, with a 94- by 200-foot (29 by 61 m) arena floor. It stands 150 feet (46 m) tall.