Editing SAP Center (section)

==History==
Plans for a San Jose arena began in the mid-1980s, when a group of local citizens formed Fund Arena Now (FAN). The group contacted city officials and pursued potential sponsors and partners from the [[National Hockey League|NHL]] and [[National Basketball Association|NBA]]. In the late 1980s, mayor [[Tom McEnery]] met with FAN, and subsequently a measure to allocate local taxes for arena construction came up for a public vote on June 7, 1988, passing by a narrow margin.<ref name="Purdy20th">{{cite news |title=Arena vote 20 years ago made San Jose a real city|first=Mark|last=Purdy|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9806277|newspaper=[[San Jose Mercury News]]|page=1A|date=July 7, 2008|access-date=March 19, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Cameron|first=Steve|title=Feeding Frenzy! The Wild New World of the San Jose Sharks|pages=43, 51–52|year=1994|publisher=Taylor Publishing Co.}}</ref>

In 1991, soon after construction began, the NHL granted an expansion franchise to San Jose. After it was discovered that the arena would not be suitable for NBA or NHL use as originally designed, the Sharks requested an upgrade to NHL standards, including the addition of [[luxury suites]], a [[press box]], and increased [[seating capacity]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Cameron|first=Steve|title=Feeding Frenzy! The Wild New World of the San Jose Sharks|pages=51–56|year=1994|publisher=Taylor Publishing Co.}}</ref>

In 1993, the arena was completed and initially named the "San Jose Arena".<ref name="media guide"/>

For the 1996–97 NBA season, the arena served as home to the [[Golden State Warriors]] while their regular home court in Oakland (now known as [[Oakland Arena]]) was under renovation.<ref>{{cite web|title=Golden State Warriors 2014-15 Media Guide|url=http://mediacentral.nba.com/media/mediacentral/2014-15-Warriors-MediaGuide.pdf#page=223|publisher=National Basketball Association|date=October 10, 2014|access-date=May 3, 2015}}</ref>

In 2001, [[naming rights]] were sold to [[Compaq]], and it was renamed "Compaq Center at San Jose" (not to be confused with the [[Lakewood Church Central Campus|Compaq Center]] (formerly The Summit) in [[Houston|Houston, Texas]]). After [[Hewlett-Packard|HP]] purchased Compaq in 2002, the arena was renamed "HP Pavilion", the same name as one of [[HP Pavilion (computer)|its computer models]].<ref name="Daktronics" />

In late April 2007, it was announced that the HP Pavilion at San Jose would be receiving several building improvements, including a new center-hung [[LED]] video display system from [[Daktronics]] similar to that of the [[TD Garden]], home of the [[Boston Bruins]] of the NHL.<ref name="Daktronics">{{cite web |title=HP Pavilion Becoming Tech Testing Lab for Arena Improvements|url=http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/article/129439|work=SportsBusiness Daily|date=April 17, 2009|access-date=April 17, 2009}}</ref>

In June 2013, German software company [[SAP AG|SAP]] (co-founded by Sharks managing partner [[Hasso Plattner]], who is also SAP's chairman of the board) purchased the naming rights to the facility in a five-year deal worth US$3.35&nbsp;million per year. The arena was renamed "SAP Center at San Jose" upon approval by the [[San Jose City Council]].<ref name="SAP Center at San Jose">{{cite web |title=Confirmed: Goodbye, HP Pavilion. Hello, SAP Center|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/06/05/confirmed-sap-center-new-name-for-hp.html|work=Silicon Valley Business Journal|date=June 5, 2013|access-date=June 5, 2013|author=Donato-Weinstein, Nathan}}</ref>

In September 2022, a new center-hung system from Daktronics that doubled the surface of the old video display system was debuted ahead of the 2022-23 NHL season. The four main LED displays measure approximately 23 feet high by 41 feet wide and the size of the 14 newly installed displays total at more than 9,300 square feet of surface area.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.daktronics.com/news/sap-center-s-newly-configured-centerhung-system-from-daktronics-making-splash-with-san-jose-sharks-fans |title=SAP Center's Newly Configured Centerhung System from Daktronics Making Splash with San Jose Sharks Fans |website=Daktronics.com |publisher=Daktronics |access-date=14 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/25/see-the-huge-upgrade-to-sap-center-that-sharks-fans-simply-cant-miss/ |title=See the huge upgrade to SAP Center that Sharks fans simply can’t miss |last=Pashelka |first=Curtis |date=September 25, 2022 |website=The Mercury News |publisher=Bay Area News Group |access-date=October 16, 2023}}</ref>

In April 2023, construction was announced on a new 10,000-square-foot penthouse lounge, with seven suites and three rows of regular seating being converted to accommodate the project. With the new premium seating completed, the arena's total attendance capacity for hockey games changed from 17,562 to 17,435.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zoltak |first1=James |title=Sharks Develop Penthouse Lounge |url=https://venuesnow.com/sharks-developing-penthouse-lounge |access-date=14 October 2023 |publisher=VenuesNow |date=26 April 2023}}</ref>