ANAHEIM ARENA

Orange County residents will be able to get a firsthand look at their new, $103-million sports and entertainment complex during an open house Friday. With its polished marble, padded seats and lavish private suites, it is a luxurious, state-of-the-art facility. Everything from concerts to tractor pulls will be staged there, but there will be an honored tenant: the National Hockey League’s Mighty Ducks.

DID YOU KNOW? Cost: $103 million Construction time: Began: June 3, 1991 Finished: June 15, 1993 What it will cost city each year with one team (pro hockey) $1.5 million What is would cost city each year with two (adding pro basketball) $0 Cubic yards of concrete: 45,000--enough to build eight Huntington Beach Piers. Square feet of marble: 200,000--could pave Disneyland’s Main Street nearly 13 times. Miles of electrical wire and cable: 156--that’s six one-way trips to Santa Catalina Island. Tons of steel 2,000--enough to fill 10 40-foot tractor trailers. Electrical capacity: 90,000 volts maximum, distributed by six 15,000 volt substations, or 24 hours of electricity for 42.5 homes. Restrooms: One for every 350 men, one for every 75 women

GETTING SITUATED South entrance: Katella Avenue Main entrance: Douglass Road On-site parking: 2,900 spaces Off-site parking: 1,000 spaces (Douglass) Off-site parking: 300 spaces (Katella West) Off-site parking: 400 spaces (Katella East) Cost Cars: $6 Limo: $12 RVs: $12 Bus: $15 Bus stop: Westbound Bus stop: Eastbound Amtrak station Entrances Main entry plaza with 70-foot arch East entrance with ticket windows North entrance VIP entrances Service entrance Exits All entrances, exits equipped with handicapped access Home-team facilities: Hockey and basketball home teams each allotted 5,500 square feet for locker rooms, training rooms, shower and toilet areas, offices, private locker rooms for coaches, conference room, physical therapy room and storage. Visiting team facilities: 1,250 square feet for locker rooms, shower and toilet areas, training rooms. Star dressing rooms: Four 400-square-foot rooms with bathroom, shower, lighted mirrors and dressing area. Direct stage access. During sporting events, star dressing rooms used for player interviews and also used as locker rooms for officials. Roof Built to withstand earthquakes. Network of intersecting trusses connect to a 140-ton steel box. Tickets * Eight ticket booths outside east entrance; three booths inside; office hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and three hours before events. * To order by phone: Ticketmaster, (714) 740-2000 Press Seating Hockey: 100 journalists Basketball: 75 additional at courtside The press box consists of two TV booths, two radio booths, one sound booth, one scoreboard booth, public address announcer, four elevators and two restrooms LEVELS Upper concourse Club/suite concourse Main concourse/suite level Upper concourse: Seating for 9,000. Most of the arena’s concession stands and restrooms are on this level. Club/suite concourse: Exclusive seating for 1,700, plus 44 luxury suites. Ticket-holders on this level can use VIP entrances and parking. Also: upgraded food menus, food servers and use of the Arena Club, which seats 300 with a full view of the floor. Main concourse/suite level: Seating for 5,600, plus 38 10-person luxury suites. SUITES Arena is outfitted with 82 luxury suites on two levels. Suites accommodate 10 to 14 people; some have private restrooms with gold-plated fixtures. Price: $69,000 to $99,000 yearly. Shown is a 10-seat suite: SEATING Seating platforms were created with two sides of retractable seating: one for hockey, the other for basketball, which can accommodate more seats because the court is smaller. How seats are changed from hockey to basketball: 1) Seating platform for hockey fully extended 2) After all seats are folded, worker uses hydraulic lift to close seating platform 3) When fully closed, platform is lifted and swiveled to other side so basketball seats can be extended BASKETBALL Making The Floor 1) Insulation layer laid down 2) Workers transport pieces of floor on caddies 3) Floor pieces are assembled like a puzzle Interlocking Floor Basketball floor is made up of 217 smooth and seamless interlocking pieces. Three workers can assemble the floor in five hours. Most pieces are 4 by 8 feet. Basketball Floor 60 feet wide, 112 feet long Made from northern hardwood maple. L.A. Lakers play on same type floor. HOCKEY Making The Ice 1) Sub-freezing solution pumped into main pipeline under concrete floor. 2) Solution flows into 10 miles of smaller pipes embedded in concrete spanning the entire floor. 3) Water is sprayed on top of concrete--now below freezing--to form 1 1/2-inch layer of ice. Finishing the ice Zamboni machine smoothes ice surface. Melting the Ice 1) Hot water is run through the pipes. 2) Ice begins to thaw. 3) Zamboni machine sweeps chunks of ice into drainage trough at edge of court. Hockey Rink 200 feet long,85 feet wide The Mighty Ducks, a fledgling hockey team created less than six months ago, will share the ice with competitive figure skating and ice extravaganzas. Source: Anaheim Arena management; Researched by JANICE L. JONES and APRIL JACKSON / Los Angeles Times