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While excited about the Chase Center opportunity, — “it’s just surreal, it seems too good to be true,” Barakat said — she also thinks the Warriors’ decision to highlight the region’s top
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Interest from the entertainment industry, including the promoters, agents, managers and show personnel has been “off the charts,” according to Bresler, who said the arena is booking concerts and events a year ahead and announcing new ones regularly. Nevertheless, enhancing the entertainers’ experience at Chase Center has also been a priority, Bresler said.
“There are not many venues that have that luxury, and that really is a tribute to the vision of ownership when the building was being built,” Bresler noted. “They were making sure that the venue was production-friendly and efficient.”
To reflect the “incredible diversity” of San Francisco and its preferences for “authentic, seasonal” cuisine, Bauccio said, the company created the Taste Makers program, inviting small businesses from Chase Center’s neighborhood and around the city to apply for a spot.
Among those chosen: Yvonne Hines, whose Yvonne’s Southern Sweets bakes cookies, cakes and pies in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood; Earl Shaddix, also of Bayview, who produces Earl’s Brittle peanut brittle; JP Reyes and Kristen Brillantes of Sarap Shop, a Mission District food truck serving Filipino American comfort food; and Cassandra Chen, creator of CC Made artisanal caramel popcorn and a member of the Chase Entrepreneurs of Color Program and the San Francisco community development nonprofit Working Solutions.
Another Taste Makers participant, Old Skool Café, is a nonprofit supper club in the Bayview, where at-risk youth create, cook and serve “international soul food” as well as provide live entertainment. At the Chase Center, Old Skool will have a stand offering a meatball po-boy, a West African peanut butter chicken stew, baked mac and cheese squares that can be eaten by hand and sweet potato pie, according to founder and CEO Teresa Goines, who said the exposure as well as additional income should be significant.
“This is a collaboration between Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony that is a perfect fit for the Bay Area, and the fact that they can pull it off is a wonderful way to open the building,” Bresler noted.
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Monday 7th October
by John Smith
With an inaugural lineup ranging from Metallica and the SF Symphony to Janet Jackson, Chance the Rapper to Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews Band to Eric Church and Elton John to WWE Raw and Smackdown Live, the diverse concerts and events at Chase Center “capture the Bay Area,” according to Eric Bresler, executive director of the new, privately funded venue. “There’s something for everyone in the opening month.”
But given the success of the Golden State Warriors’ teamwork, it’s fitting that the official debut of their new arena — San Francisco’s first with more than 12,000 seats — involves a unique partnership between two other homegrown heroes. The world-renowned metal band Metallica and the esteemed San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas — set to receive a Kennedy Center Honor later this year — will reprise their landmark 1999 “S&M” concert in sold-out performances on Sept. 6 and 8.
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For Metallica, the San Francisco Symphony and all the other acts to follow — including the Jonas Brothers, Phil Collins, the Who and Marc Anthony in October, and Santana, Cher and the Black Keys in November — Chase Center boasts “spectacular sound” as well as groundbreaking technology that can rise to many challenges, especially touring productions, according to Bresler.
“Chase Center really was built with an unbelievable vision with production in mind,” he said.
Five loading docks are dedicated to trucks that unload road cases, the containers holding lighting, speakers and other material used in performances, while a massive freight elevator that can carry up to 12,000 pounds can whisk the cases all the way to the catwalk at the top of the arena.
“The ability to put road cases onto catwalk is unprecedented,” Bresler said.
Among other technical highlights is a gantry system that allows the arena’s scoreboard to retract fully into the ceiling, providing what Bresler called “convenient and unparalleled” rigging of lights and speakers in the center of the building, of which the debut performance will take advantage.
Riggers will also appreciate the state-of-the-art, tension-grid rigging system allowing them to walk freely from beam to beam to rig the show high above the stage without having to wear harnesses.
“I think the challenges are from a sonic level. Metallica has such a massive, loud metal band sound, so where do you fit the sounds of the orchestra?” Outwater explained. “We’re experimenting with different textures — some softer sounds, some moments with symphony musicians that will highlight them in a different way. The stage will also be set up in a different way, in a round setup that’s more similar to the way Metallica is touring now.”
Former San Francisco Symphony resident conductor Edwin Outwater is coming from Chicago to lead the concert with Tilson Thomas.
“It’s a re-creation with a lot of new material and having worked on it for the past few months, it’s a tremendous amount of work and collaboration and creativity,” Outwater said.
Bringing an “intricate and complex production” into a brand-new space is also “an adventure,” he added, noting that the symphony’s initial rehearsals have been in an offsite location that attempts to mimic Chase Center’s logistics.
Audiences have a lot to look forward to as well.
“It’s a brand-new modern arena and complex with wide concourses, great eateries and beverage areas, well-placed restrooms and over 20 retail locations in Thrive City,” among other features, Bresler said.
“The guest service program is an initiative we’re developing so that from the time guests arrive at Chase Center and Thrive City, they’re having a great time,” Bresler said. “They’ll have the ability to come down and have dinner with us before a show and create an experience that is amazing.”
“We have fully dedicated spaces to the artists — not only the dressing rooms, but a dedicated weight room, sauna, steam and plunge pools for their use,” he noted. “We want this to be that when artists come to Chase Center, they know they’re having just a wonderful experience, and they want to come back to San Francisco.”
Golden State Warriors President and Chief Operating Officer Rick Welts hopes they do, too.
“We have high aspirations: We want to be one of a handful of performance venues that the world’s greatest artists feel their resume is not complete without, like the O2 in London, Madison Square Garden in New York and Staples Center in L.A.,” Welts said. “We want to earn a place on the list, not only because of the venue we built, but because of where we built it — the most influential place in the world in charting the future of our lives.”
At the same time, Welts believes Chase Center patrons will also reap long-lasting benefits.
“At least eight of 10 people, when asked what the first concert they attended was, have a very vivid memory of where they were as well as who they saw,” he said. “We’re going to be creating memories for generations of Bay Area residents to come.”
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