LAKERS HEADQUARTERS & TRAINING FACILITY

The two-story, 122,000-square-foot facility at 710 N. Nash St. in El Segundo will include a double basketball court for Lakers practices and D-Fenders home games, two half-courts, a training area, team area, atrium and the corporate headquarters. The facility is built around the double court. “There are many ways we could have configured this building, but the basketball court is right in the middle and everything else is around it,” said Carl Meyer, principal at Perkins+Will, the associate architect. “Whether someone works in sales, sponsorships, accounting or social media, they all felt they needed to be exposed and next to the basketball part of the organization.” Meyer said Buss and other executives working in business operations on the second level will have windows that look down on to the court. The ground-level facilities, including the training and weight rooms, open up to the court