City of San Jose<\/a> agreed to $425-million in funding to improve the building to NHL standards. How is that funding going to improve SAP Center?<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to launch a website as early as next week, by the end of next week, where we\u2019re going to show some early previews of those images\u2014the ones that have been approved,\u201d Becher said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to keep updating that website, probably on a monthly basis in the next two or three years, as more and more things get approved.\u201d<\/p>\n
Becher reiterated that all images and arena improvements must be approved by the City of San Jose. Additionally, Becher teased a \u201cpuck drop\u201d event in March where more images of SAP Center\u2019s future will be revealed.<\/p>\n
The president detailed a few of the ideas they want to implement. For one, he explained that SAP Center was originally designed as a multi-purpose building. In the future, he wants everyone in the building to know that it\u2019s the home of the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n
\u201cSharks swim in the ocean, and so we\u2019re going to take the oceanic idea and we\u2019re going to apply it everywhere, and then some,\u201d Becher said. \u201cThere are multiple layers to the ocean, and in different layers of the ocean, there are different kinds of sharks, and different kinds of lighting \u2026 And we\u2019re going to use that ocean theme to reimagine this as an actual tank.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, laughing, \u201c[But] no water.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other changes will improve foot traffic.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen there are more than 13- or 14,000 people in this building, which there are now all the time, the concourse is too crowded,\u201d Becher admitted. \u201cYou almost have to use your sharp elbows to get by people. We\u2019ve got to figure out to take 4-to-5,000 people off the concourse. If you look at modern building designs, very few buildings are one concourse buildings. They are two or three-concourse buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout 73% of the guests come through the south entrance, the one coming off of Santa Clara,\u201d Becher said. \u201cThat\u2019s too many. So, we\u2019re gonna punch some new holes in the building, and open up new ways to get into the building as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
The president also wants to better use SAP Center\u2019s bottom \u201carena level\u201d and top \u201cpenthouse level\u201d for fans. That would include some \u201coutdoor-indoor\u201d spaces that benefit from San Jose\u2019s warmer weather and let in sunlight. As Becher said, fans can expect updates on SAP Center\u2019s future over the next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe word we\u2019re using is \u2018revamp,’\u201d Becher shared. \u201cBecause we really are trying to say, \u201cWhat happens if we\u2019re not going to tear it down?\u2026It\u2019s not just Sharks hockey, but the 100 other events that happen in this building.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the heart of the re-imagined building, of course, will be the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe nickname the Shark Tank,\u201d Becher said, \u201cwill become real.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe want to make this a literal shark tank.\u201d That\u2019s just one of the many teases that Jonathan…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":541159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1322,19835,87936,293,1328,86912,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-541158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-featured","9":"tag-future","10":"tag-jonathan-becher","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-san-jose-sharks","13":"tag-sap-center","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115954227980244591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}