page_title: Ellerbe Becket
section_title: Arenas
hierarchical_section_title: Ellerbe Becket / Projects / Sports facilities / Arenas
caption_attribution_description: English: Northwest corner of the Wells Fargo Center
context_page_description: Ellerbe Becket was an independent Minneapolis, Minnesota-based architectural, engineering, interior design and construction firm until 2009, when it was acquired by AECOM. In October 2009, Ellerbe Becket was acquired by AECOM. AECOM is ranked as one of the world's largest architectural firms, with offices in Dallas, TX, Kansas City, MO, San Francisco, CA, Washington, DC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Doha, Qatar.
  The firm currently employs 475 people in seven locations and three countries, and has designed buildings in all of the 50 states and in 20 countries.
context_section_description: AT&T Center (formerly SBC Center), San Antonio, TX
  Bankers Life Fieldhouse, (formerly Conseco Fieldhouse), Indianapolis, IN
  Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY
  BB&T Center (formerly Office Depot Center), Sunrise, FL
  Dunkin' Donuts Center (formerly Providence Civic Center), Providence, RI
  FedExForum, Memphis, TN
  JQH Arena, Springfield, MO
  John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA
  Joyce Center, Notre Dame, IN
  KeyBank Center, Buffalo, NY
  König Pilsener Arena, Oberhausen, Germany
  Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York (1990s renovation)
  Manchester Arena (formerly Manchester Evening News Arena), Manchester, England
  Matthew Knight Arena, Eugene, OR
  Moda Center, Portland, OR
  Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH
  Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan
  Scottrade Center, St. Louis, MO
  Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, WA
  Sprint Center, Kansas City, MO
  Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL
  Talking Stick Resort Arena (formerly America West Arena and US Airways Center), Phoenix, AZ
  TD Garden (formerly FleetCenter), Boston, MA
  Thomas & Mack Center, Paradise, NV
  Capital One Arena (formerly MCI Center and Verizon Center), Washington, DC
  Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA
  XFINITY Center (formerly Comcast Center), College Park, MD
caption: Wells Fargo Center
exif: {"Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon EOS 40D", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2010:09:06 02:15:39", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "232", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 2, 0, 0]", "Image GPSInfo": "1000", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "1114", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4014", "EXIF ExposureTime": "8/5", "EXIF FNumber": "63/10", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Manual", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "100", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2010:09:05 22:40:42", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2010:09:05 22:40:42", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "-11/16", "EXIF ApertureValue": "43/8", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "21", "EXIF SubSecTime": "00", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "00", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "00", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2000", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1219", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "968", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "324000/73", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "2592000/583", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Manual Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard"}