[SacSFChi]

Sir Paul opened Golden1 tonight with a bit over 18K folks flocking to the arena. The auto traffic, especially exiting I-5 onto J Street, was nowhere near as bad as I would have thought. The open house festivities this past weekend drew upwards of 100K over a 6 hour span, and that too did not cause any traffic gridlock that I witnessed. The biggest payoff I believe was the superb street energy with folks meandering through downtown, and at least 3 new restaurants and more opening soon. It felt much more like San Francisco, in a good way. Hopefully this arena is a long-term game changer for downtown growth.