Chase Center is an indoor arena in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The building is the home venue for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and occasionally for the University of San Francisco men's and women's basketball teams in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Warriors, who have been located in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1962, played their home games at Oakland Arena in Oakland from 1971 to 2019. Chase Center opened on September 6, 2019 and seats 18,064 for Warriors games.

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Chase Center

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Address	1 Warriors Way[1]
Location	San Francisco, California
Coordinates	37°46′05″N 122°23′15″W
Public transit	UCSF/Chase Center Golden Gate Ferry: Larkspur San Francisco Bay Ferry: Alameda, Oakland, South SF
Type	Arena
Capacity	Basketball: 18,064 Concerts: 19,500
Field size	900,000 sq ft (84,000 m2)
Construction
Broke ground	January 17, 2017
Opened	September 6, 2019
Construction cost	US$1.4 billion (US$1.67 billion in 2023 dollars[2])[citation needed]
Architect	MANICA Architecture (design) Gensler (interiors)
Structural engineer	Walter P Moore Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Services engineer	Smith Seckman Reid, Inc.
General contractor	Clark Construction Group Mortenson Construction
Tenants
Golden State Warriors (NBA) (2019–present) San Francisco Dons (NCAA) (2019–present) WNBA Golden State (WNBA) (beginning in 2025)
Website
chasecenter.com

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The arena also includes the Warriors’ practice facility known as the Oracle Performance Center.

The location for the arena, which is home to the Golden State Warriors, is in San Francisco^[3] at Third St. and 16th St.^[4] The arena is composed of multiple layers and floors, has a seating capacity of 18,064 and a multi-purpose area that includes a theater configuration with an entrance overlooking a newly built park. The venue also contains 580,000 square feet (54,000 m²) of office and lab space and has 100,000 square feet (9,300 m²) of retail space. Chase Center also includes a 35,000 square foot public plaza/recreation area designed by landscape architecture firm SWA Group.^[5] The arena includes a parking facility of approximately 950 spaces and is accessible to public transportation around the area, including one light rail and two crosstown bus lines within two blocks, and a ferryboat landing and regional commuter rail station within a ten-minute walk.^[3]

The UCSF/Chase Center station is located adjacent to the arena on the T Third Street light rail line. In 2023, San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) opened the Central Subway, a new light rail subway line that links the arena and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to downtown hotels, convention centers, the residential neighborhood of Chinatown, and subway and commuter rail lines that serve the entire Bay Area. With a $1 billion investment,^{[citation needed]} Chase Center anchors a 11 acre site that aside from the arena comprises cafés, offices, public plazas and a five-and-a-half-acre public waterfront park.^[6]

The plan for building a new arena was announced on May 22, 2012, at a Golden State Warriors press conference at the proposed site, attended by then-San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, then-NBA Commissioner David Stern, then-California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber, and Warriors staff and city officials.^[7] A new privately financed, $500 million 17,000- to 19,000-seat arena was planned to be located on Pier 30-32 along the San Francisco Bay waterfront, situated between the San Francisco Ferry Building and Oracle Park.^[8] A month after the proposal, the South Beach-Rincon-Mission Bay Neighborhood Association criticized the site and said that a second major league sport venue in the area would make it no longer "family friendly".^[9] Former San Francisco mayor Art Agnos began speaking to dozens of community gatherings in opposition to the proposed arena, stating that the project was pushed by two out-of-town billionaires and would severely impact traffic and city views.^[10] On December 30, 2013, a ballot proposition was submitted to the city titled the "Waterfront Height Limit Right to Vote Act".^[11] The initiative made it onto the June 2014 ballot as Proposition B, and its passage would affect three major waterfront developments, including the proposed Warriors arena.^[12]

On April 19, 2014, the Warriors abandoned plans for the pier site and purchased a 12-acre site owned by Salesforce.com at the Mission Bay neighborhood for an undisclosed amount. The arena was financed privately.^[13] The architect for the project was MANICA Architecture and the plan for Chase Center was to have it built by 2019 before the NBA season started.^[3] The plan for Chase Center to open earlier was pushed back multiple times due to many complaints about the location.^[4] Construction on the arena began in January 2017.^[3]

In April 2015, the Mission Bay site was opposed by the Mission Bay Alliance, which cited traffic, lack of parking, and use of space that could go to UCSF expansion among other things as their reasons for opposition. Their complaint was that the arena would be located near UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital and would create more traffic.^[4] To avoid the plan to build Chase Center being voided, representatives of the project worked to address these issues such as traffic and parking.^[14]

On January 28, 2016, it was announced that JPMorgan Chase had purchased the naming rights of the arena and that it would be known as Chase Center.^[15][16][6]

The Golden State Warriors had the official groundbreaking ceremony for Chase Center on January 17, 2017.^[17]

The arena had its grand opening on September 6, 2019, with a concert by Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony. The first preseason game at the Chase Center took place on October 5, 2019, as the Warriors lost to the Los Angeles Lakers, 123–101. The Warriors played their first regular season game there with a 141–122 loss against the Los Angeles Clippers on October 24, 2019.^[18]

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Chase Center has hosted 4 professional wrestling events:

• WWE Raw, September 23, 2019 and October 11, 2021
• WWE SmackDown, September 24, 2019 (this was the final SmackDown event to air Tuesday nights on the USA Network before its move to Fox on Friday nights the following week)
• AEW held their 4th annual Revolution PPV event on March 5, 2023.

Devin Haney vs. Regis Prograis was held in the Chase Center.^{[citation needed]}

• Sports in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Oakland Athletics relocation to Las Vegas
• Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas
• List of indoor arenas by capacity