St. Elizabeth's East Entertainment and Sports Arena

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St. Elizabeth's East Entertainment and Sports Arena
The Entrance to the Entertainment & Sports Arena (December 2018)
The Entrance to the Entertainment & Sports Arena (December 2018)
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place 1100 Oak Drive Southeast Washington, DC 20032
United StatesUnited States
Coordinates 38 ° 50 '48.5 "  N , 76 ° 59' 29"  W Coordinates: 38 ° 50 '48.5 "  N , 76 ° 59' 29"  W.
owner Washington, DC
operator EventsDC
start of building Summer 2017
opening 22nd September 2018
First game November 3, 2018
Capital City Go-Go - Greensboro Swarm 105: 107
surface Concrete
parquet
costs 69 million US dollars
architect Rossetti Architects
Marshall Moya Design
capacity 4200 seats
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The St. Elizabeths East Entertainment and Sports Arena (short: Entertainment & Sports Arena (ESA)) is a multi-purpose hall in the US capital Washington, DC The event arena offers 4200 seats and cost 69 million  US dollars . The basketball teams of the Capital City Go-Go ( NBA G-League , men) and the Washington Mystics ( WNBA , women) are based in the venue . It also serves as a training facility for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

history

The building in the Congress Heights neighborhood stands on the campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital , opened in 1855 , the first state- run mental health clinic in the United States. In 1955 the clinic accommodated up to 7,500 patients. On 14 December 1990, the hospital was in the list of Landmark National Historic added. Since 2010 only the eastern part of the campus has been used.

In the planning, it was estimated that the new building would create 300 to 600 jobs that would be occupied by residents in the area. Construction work on the complex began in summer 2017 on the 183  acre (740,575  m² ) campus. The city wants to revive the area and the Entertainment and Sports Arena is the first building block of the multi-year project. There have been private plans for the redevelopment a few times, but it was only a partnership between the city, EventsDC, a semi-public company that manages various event venues in Washington, DC, and Monumental Sports, as owners of Wizards and Mystics , that initiated the restructuring . In mid-February 2016, the demolition work for the event hall started with Mayor Muriel Bowser . In January 2018 the companies Redbrick LMD and Gragg Cardona Partners started the preparatory work to demolish 14 buildings of the former mental hospital around the new arena in order to build 252  residential units there. They should be completed in 2020. Opposite the arena, there will be a mixed-use zone of 20,000 to 50,000  sq ft (approximately 1858 to 4645 m²) with office space and retail on the ground floor. For this, more hospital buildings would have to be demolished.

On September 22, 2018, the new event location with a total of 118,000 sq ft (around 10,963 m²) was inaugurated. The American singer Mary J. Blige gave the first concert on October 6th of that year. On November 3rd, 2018, the Capital City Go-Go played their first game of the NBA G-League in the new hall. In front of 2383 spectators, the home side lost 105: 107 against Greensboro Swarm . In addition to basketball, u. a. Concerts , e-sports , amateur sports , boxing and mixed martial arts events take place.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rebecca Cooper: Take a look inside the new entertainment and sports arena at St. Elizabeths. In: bizjournals.com. Washington Business Journal, September 14, 2018, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  2. ^ History. In: stelizabethseast.com. St. Elizabeths Hospital, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ St. Elizabeth's Hospital. In: npgallery.nps.gov. National Park Service , accessed March 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Project Overview. In: stelizabethseast.com. St. Elizabeths Hospital, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Andrew Giambrone: Bowser Kicks Off St. Elizabeth's Demolition for Wizards' Practice Facility. In: washingtoncitypaper.com. Washington City Paper, February 19, 2016, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  6. ^ Mark Segraves, Sophia Barnes: DC Entertainment & Sports Arena in Southeast Opens. In: nbcwashington.com. NBC , September 18, 2018, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Boxscore. In: gleague.nba.com. NBA G-League , November 3, 2018, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Entertainment and Sports Arena. In: eventsdc.com. EventsDC, accessed March 8, 2019 .