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Sports Arena renamed Valley View Casino Center
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Sports Arena will be renamed the Valley View Casino Center in a deal approved Tuesday by the San Diego City Council
San Pasqual Casino Development Group, Inc., owned by the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians, will pay the arena’s operator, AEG Management San Diego, roughly $1.5 million over the first five years of the naming-rights agreement. San Diego is expected to receive $157,000 over that time, according to a city report.
SD Sports Arena Undergoes Name Change
New Partnership Approved By City Council; Arena To Be Called Valley View Casino Center
SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego Sports Arena will be now be known as the Valley View Casino Center, according to a news release issued Tuesday.
CASINOS: Casino puts its name on arena
San Diego Sports Arena to become Valley View Casino Center.
The five-year agreement will increase Valley View Casino & Hotel's name recognition and provide its guests with access to concerts at the center, said Bruce Howard, general manager at Valley View.
Arena formally sports new name
POINT LOMA — The latest metamorphosis for the sports arena — one in a string of transitions and name changes over the 44-year history of the venerable Midway landmark — is complete.
POINT LOMA — The latest metamorphosis for the sports arena — one in a string of transitions and name changes over the 44-year history of the venerable Midway landmark — is complete.
Officials held a ceremonial sign unveiling Dec. 1 to showcase the former San Diego Sports Arena as the newly named Valley View Casino Center. The sponsorship arrangement is the second in recent years, following on the heels of the previous sponsorship by iPayOne.
If you See Something, Say Something
The "If You See Something, Say Something™" campaign partnership with AEG launched at the Valley View Casino Center in September 2011.
In March 2011, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and AEG President and CEO Timothy J. Leiweke announced a new partnership expanding the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) "If You See Something, Say Something™" public awareness campaign to stadiums, arenas, theatres, clubs convention centers and other venues owned or affiliated with AEG Facilities in an effort to help ensure safety and security of the American public.
The "If You See Something, Say Something™" campaign — originally implemented by New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and now licensed to DHS for a nationwide campaign — is a simple and effective program to engage the public and key frontline employees to identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to the proper transportation and law enforcement authorities.
The "If You See Something, Say Something™" campaign partnership with AEG launched at the Valley View Casino Center in September 2011.
Pepsi Dream Machine
Valley View Casino Center Offers the PepsiCo Dream Machine Recycling Program!
Valley View Casino Center is excited to offer the PepsiCo Dream Machine recycling program, providing visitors and residents a convenient and rewarding way to recycle on-the-go!
When you recycle your plastic bottles and aluminum cans in a Dream Machine, you can:
- Earn personal reward points, redeemable for local discounts;
- Support post-9/11 U.S. veterans with disabilities; and
- Help make our planet a little greener.
Many people are shocked to learn that only one-third of the plastic beverage containers in the United States are recycled – that means that two-thirds often wind up as litter, on our roads and in our oceans and waterways. But, if every household in the U.S. recycled just three more plastic bottles a month, we could divert more than 23 million pounds of plastic from our landfills and increase the amount of recycled plastic available to incorporate into new bottles, which would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save energy, reduce air and water pollution and conserve our planet’s natural resources.
The Dream Machine recycling initiative – created by PepsiCo in collaboration with Waste Management, Keep America Beautiful and Greenopolis – is introducing thousands of recycling kiosks and bins at high-traffic, public locations around the country. The Dream Machine program aims to create strategic partnerships to help increase the U.S. beverage container recycling rate to 50 percent by 2018 by giving Americans convenient access to recycling receptacles.
In addition to being kind to the environment, each time you recycle in a Dream Machine you are taking action to help support a disabled U.S. veteran – the more bottles and cans people recycle in a Dream Machine, the more support PepsiCo will provide to the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, a national program offering post-9/11 disabled U.S. veterans free education and experiential training in entrepreneurship and small business management.
When you recycle your plastic bottles or aluminum cans in a Dream Machine kiosk, you can earn points redeemable for local discounts and coupons on entertainment, dining and travel at Greenopolis.com.
Next time you’re at Valley View Casino Center, recycle in a Dream Machine and join us in making this exciting recycling initiative a success!
For more information on the program, visit Facebook.com/DreamMachine.
To find a Dream Machine location near you, visit www.DreamMachineLocator.com.
ABM Partners with AEG and the Valley View Casino Center
ABM expands facility maintenance support to multiple marquee AEG venues including the Valley View Casino Center.
New York, NY – Feb. 27, 2012 – ABM (NYSE:ABM), a leading provider of integrated facility solutions, today announced that the Company has entered a global partnership with AEG, one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the world. Under the multiyear, multimillion dollar partnership, ABM will expand the facility maintenance services it provides to AEG’s premier venues around the world.
In the first phase of the global partnership, ABM will provide facility maintenance services at several high-profile AEG venues, including:
- L.A. LIVE – the $2.5 billion sports and entertainment district in downtown Los Angeles located within a 4 million-square foot, 27-acre area that is home to Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE (7,100-seat venue), Club Nokia (2,300-capacity live music venue), a 54-story, 1001-room tower featuring the JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE and The Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles hotels along with The Ritz-Carlton Residences at L.A. LIVE (224 luxury residences). L.A. LIVE is also the home of The GRAMMY Museum, Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14 theaters, restaurants, office space, broadcast facilities for ESPN and more.
- The Home Depot Center – a multi-use sports complex located on the campus of California State University Dominguez Hills in Carson, California, which has been designated as an Official U.S. Olympic Training Site, and features elite facilities for soccer, track & field, lacrosse, track cycling, rugby and other Olympic sports; the stadium home to Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Galaxy and Chivas USA; and a premier setting for concerts and family shows.
- The GRAMMY Museum – a 30,000-square foot museum located within the L.A. LIVE district with cutting-edge interactive, permanent and traveling exhibits that explore and celebrate all forms of music – from rock, hip-hop and R&B to country, classical and jazz – that also houses the 200-seat Clive Davis Theater.
- Citizens Business Bank Arena – the Ontario, California arena, which can accommodate more than 11,000 people, is a state-of-the-art facility that hosts ice hockey’s Ontario Reign, a variety of other sporting competitions, concerts, family shows, special events, community activities and private events.
- Valley View Casino Center – the San Diego-based indoor arena, which historically has hosted some of Southern California’s premier sporting competitions, music performances and other events, can accommodate from 9,000 to 14,500 guests for events including major musical concerts, ice hockey, basketball, arena football, boxing, ice shows, tennis, the circus and more.
“We are truly thrilled to have the opportunity to expand our partnership with AEG, a well-established and fast-growing market leader in the sports and entertainment industry,” said Henrik Slipsager, President & CEO of ABM. “Our extensive experience and broad capabilities in delivering facility services to our multiple sports and entertainment, retail and hospitality clients will serve us extremely well as we help support the first-rate experience of the millions of guests and visitors at AEG’s premier venues around the world.”
AEG will soon open BBVA Compass Stadium, the new home to Major League Soccer’s Houston Dynamo. The open-air, 22,000-seat stadium will be the league’s first soccer-specific stadium located in a city’s downtown district when it opens in May. ABM will provide facility maintenance at the new $80 million stadium, which also will host international soccer matches, concerts and boxing competitions, in addition to serving as home to Texas Southern University football. The stadium project also will seek Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification as a sustainable facility. ABM offers “green cleaning” through its industry-leading ABM Green Care™, and is today green cleaning more than 300 million square feet of facility space. Green cleaning is a key criterion in achieving LEED certification.
“The foundation of our partnership with ABM is the shared commitment to providing the highest quality of service and a world-class experience to our guests,” said Shervin Mirhashemi, Chief Operating Officer, AEG Global Partnerships. “ABM has proven to be an industry leader in facility services and the global expansion of our partnership is testament not only to their capabilities, but to AEG’s commitment to using environmentally safe products and practices in our venues.”
The global partnership expands ABM’s existing facility maintenance services for AEG venues, including STAPLES Center and Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles as well as Kansas City’s Sprint Center. The two companies expect to announce additional venues both in the U.S. and Europe under the global partnership later this year.
“We are very proud of the growing relationship we have with the global leader in sports and entertainment,” said Charlotte Jensen-Murphy, ABM Vice President & Director, National Sales. “This partnership allows us to build on our strong foundation by servicing more of AEG’s premier venues, including internationally, while extending our services at STAPLES Center and Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE. Good things happen when you bring together two industry leaders and we look forward to being a part of AEG’s rapid and significant growth around the world.”
About ABM
ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), which operates through its subsidiaries (collectively "ABM"), is a leading provider of integrated facility solutions. With fiscal 2011, revenues of approximately $4.2 billion and nearly 100,000 employees, ABM provides commercial cleaning and maintenance, facility engineering, energy efficiency, parking, security and landscaping services for thousands of commercial, industrial, government and retail clients across the United States and various international locations. ABM's business services include ABM Janitorial Services, ABM Facility Solutions, ABM Parking Services (Ampco System Parking) and ABM Security Services. For more information, visit www.abm.com.
Try out the Appetize app at the Valley View Casino Center!
The Valley View Casino Center is becoming the first venue in Southern California to implement a mobile concessions ordering system by partnering with Appetize and its iPhone and Android-based app.
Starting at the April 10 Kelly Clarkson show, Valley View Casino Center will launch the Appetize mobile application in the Lower Level and Loge (Sections 1, 23 and 24 only). The Appetize app lets fans stay in their seats to browse and purchase menu items to be delivered. Be sure to download the app before the show!
To download the Appetize app, click here (iPhone) or click here (Android).
About Appetize:
Appetize, LLC is a mobile app company created by a group of Los Angeles entrepreneurs who share a passion for live entertainment and concessions. Its iPhone and Android application lets users stay in their seats, using their phones to browse and purchase menu items at concert and sporting venues.
Appetize is headed by CEO Max Roper, whose background revolves around IT and media at mega-brands Apple and Red Bull. Based in Santa Monica, Appetize is expected to launch at several venues across California and the West Coast in the upcoming months.
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