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Golden 1 Center's Sound System To Bring Courtside Audio Into Suite, Loft Seating

NBA Kings Managing Partner Vivek Ranadive yesterday said that fans in the luxury suites and lofts in the soon-to-open Golden 1 Center will "have the courtside action piped into their seating areas," according to Dale Kasler of the SACRAMENTO BEE. Kings President Chris Granger said that the team is "placing microphones along the court to pick up the sounds of the game." Granger: "There will be a sound channel in your suite or in your loft and you can tune in." The lofts and suites "sit at roughly the midway point of the arena," with the lofts serving as "miniature versions of suites." Granger said the arena's sound system is the same one "they use at the Grammys." Kasler notes the Kings "still haven't decided" when to keep the arena's hangar doors open during a paid event. Granger said that the team has to "work out the details with the NBA before the 40-foot-high doors, one of the signature features of the arena, can stay open during a game." Icon Venue Group CEO Tim Romani, whose company served as project manager for the construction and design of Golden 1, said, "It's all about humidity control, wind control, temperature control" (SACRAMENTO BEE, 9/28).

BRUSH STROKE: In Sacramento, Lillis & Bizjak noted a sculpture titled "Coloring Book" on Monday was "formally unveiled" outside Golden 1 Center. The $8M artwork "inspired by a child coloring an image of Piglet was introduced to an audience of the city's political and artistic elite." Mayor Kevin Johnson said the work "will get global attention." Ranadive: "I predict this will be the selfie capital of the state capital of the sixth-largest economy in the world" (SACRAMENTO BEE, 9/27). The WALL STREET JOURNAL's Ben Cohen notes the sculpture "stands more than 18 feet tall." The sculpture first "had to earn governmental approval," then it had to "survive a local backlash." Now it will "face the artistic criticism of the average basketball fan." It is "unclear how 'Coloring Book' will be received by Kings fans." However, what Sacramento artists and basketball execs both anticipate is that the art will "seize people's attention exactly like a statue of an NBA star would" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/28).

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