Honda Center, Indoor arena in Anaheim, United States.
Honda Center is a multipurpose indoor arena in Anaheim, California, designed by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum and opened in 1993. It seats up to 17,174 for Anaheim Ducks hockey games and can be converted into an 8,400-seat amphitheater in five hours. The building contains 84 luxury suites and, since 2005, two full levels of 360° LED ribbon displays.
Construction of the Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum-designed arena broke ground in November 1990 on a seven-acre site at Douglass Road and Katella Avenue, land then owned by the German Phoenix Club. It opened on June 19, 1993, with a Barry Manilow concert, after a concept first pitched by entertainment attorney Neil Papiano in 1987. Arrowhead Water bought ten-year naming rights in October 1993, and Honda took over the name in 2006.
The arena's name comes from Honda, which bought the naming rights in October 2006 for $60 million over 15 years and renewed the deal for another decade in 2020. For ice hockey games the building is called "The Pond at Honda Center," recalling its earlier name, Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim.
Parking is available in surrounding lots and information about upcoming events can be found online on the venue website. Entry and security checks happen at multiple points, so wait times before major events can be reduced by choosing your arrival carefully.
The arena can be converted from a sports configuration to an 8,400-seat amphitheater in about five hours. In 2005 it became the first arena in the United States with two full levels of 360-degree LED ribbon displays, totaling 1,800 feet of signage.
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