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Golden 1 Center

The downtown arena of the Sacramento Kings, opened September 30, 2016 and LEED Platinum certified.

Golden 1 Center is an indoor arena in Downtown Sacramento that replaced ARCO Arena as the home of the Kings. It opened on September 30, 2016 at a final estimated cost of $558.2 million, and sits partly on the site of the former Downtown Plaza.

It hosts concerts and conventions as well as basketball, with capacity expandable to about 19,000. It earned LEED Platinum certification in September 2016.

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When did Golden 1 Center open?

On September 30, 2016.

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  • Sacramento KingsThe city’s NBA team, in Sacramento since 1985 and the oldest franchise in the league.
  • Farm-to-ForkThe marketing identity Sacramento adopted in 2012, calling itself America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital for its restaurants that buy from the farms around the city.
  • SacramentoCalifornia’s state capital, a city of about 525,000 people at the meeting of the Sacramento and American Rivers, and the oldest incorporated city in the state.

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