Golden 1 Center's entrance gives the game away: five towering hangar doors, the sort you would expect at an airfield, lift open above the plaza and let Sacramento's famous Delta breeze drift through the concourse.
The arena opened in September 2016 as home to the Sacramento Kings and promptly became the first professional sports venue anywhere powered entirely by solar energy, drawing current from its own rooftop array and a solar farm forty miles away near Rancho Seco. That feat earned it LEED Platinum certification, a first for any indoor arena, and its concessions lean on Central Valley produce, true to Sacramento's claim as America's farm-to-fork capital.
VoiceMap's self-guided Sacramento Urban Mural Bike Tour pedals right past the building, tracing how its 2016 opening set off a wave of public art downtown, including a piece commissioned from local artist Bryan Valenzuela to mark the arena's arrival.