The best part of the equation for South Bay sports fans, though, is that the arena will provide another lower cost entertainment option in what’s growing into an eclectic sports-oriented neighborhood around South 10th Street and Alma Avenue. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)īy the way, naming rights for everything from the arena itself, the swanky club bars and probably even the bathrooms are available to Silicon Valley companies looking to get their brands out there. SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – August 24: Construction crews work at the construction site for a new arena for the American Hockey League’s San Jose Barracuda, in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. The project includes another recreational ice rink with an attached sports bar, ice-level clubs and corporate suites for the arena, and 16,000 square feet of space that can be leased to another company. It’s something that fans may never notice about the 4,200 seat arena, part of a $120 million, 200,000 square-foot expansion of Sharks Ice at San Jose that will make it the largest ice facility in North America. “That’s purposely done to give us a home-ice advantage.” “Look how far that goes back,” says Gustafson, the senior vice president for Sharks Ice. Walking around the arena that will be home next year to the San Jose Barracuda - the Sharks’ American Hockey League affiliate - you know Jon Gustafson’s a true hockey guy when he points with pride to one particular feature: The walk from the visitors’ locker room to the ice is about three times longer than the Barracuda’s.
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