Angel of the Winds Arena

5 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2 We are proud to be a part of the OVG team led by Corey Margolis at “In the areas of safety and security, when you come back into our house you know you can come here, and rest assured, we’ve got you covered. When you come here, what you’re paying for as a ticket, every part of the experience is going to be welcoming you back.” A spectacular new 360 LED horseshoe ribbon display from Daktronics and improvements to the community ice rink are part of the new experience, which will, as Guenet says, “make the event experience larger than life.” For the recent security upgrade, Angel of the Winds Arena used the services of XtractOne technologies. Explaining the reason for this step, Margolis says, “We handle all different levels of security, whether it is WNBA or televised events. We’ve done presidential candidate events in the past, and we’ve handled all the security, but we didn’t have any real consistency for a number of years. We clearly believe there’s a need for us to be driving the security procedures and policies of our facility, but a major concern of ours at the same time is fan experience and making sure that people can enter the building in a reasonable amount of time.” After investigating many different options, it was decided that what XtractOne had to offer would be the best choice for the facility. As one of the early adopters of this technology in the OVG360 Group, Angel of the Winds was also the first arena in Washington State to bring this on board. “Not only is it a higher level of security screening than a standard walk-through metal detector used in many facilities, but it’s also really fast. Whereas we’re looking at six people maybe a minute in a walk-through metal detector, we’re getting 16 plus people a minute through our units. You’re not taking stuff out of your pocket. Many people aren’t even sure they’ve gone through security,” says Margolis. “I can’t speak highly enough about the level of experience it creates. I’m pretty happy that we have an improvement in security that went along with a positive guest experience.”