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  2. Capital One Arena - Wikipedia

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    Capital One Arena is an indoor arena in Washington, D.C. Located in the Chinatown section of the larger Penn Quarter neighborhood, the arena sits atop the Gallery Place rapid transit station of the Washington Metro. The arena was opened on December 2, 1997 as MCI Center but renamed to Verizon Center in 2006 when MCI was acquired by Verizon ...

  3. MCI Inc. - Wikipedia

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    MCI, Inc. (formerly WorldCom and MCI WorldCom) was a telecommunications company. For a time, it was the second-largest long-distance telephone company in the United States, after AT&T. WorldCom grew largely by acquiring other telecommunications companies, including MCI Communications in 1998, and filed for bankruptcy in 2002 after an accounting ...

  4. Verizon - Wikipedia

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    Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon ( / vəˈraɪzən / və-RYE-zən ), is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate. The company is incorporated in Delaware, and headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. [3] Verizon's capital stock is a component of the Dow Jones ...

  5. MCI Communications - Wikipedia

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    MCI Communications Corporation (originally Microwave Communications, Inc.) was a telecommunications company headquartered in Washington, D.C. that was at one point the second-largest long-distance provider in the United States. MCI was instrumental in legal and regulatory changes that led to the breakup of the Bell System and introduced ...

  6. Washington Wizards - Wikipedia

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    Capital One Arena (formerly MCI Center and Verizon Center) (December 1997–present) In December 2023, Monumental Sports & Entertainment founder and team owner Ted Leonsis engaged in a non-binding partnership with Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin to move the Wizards and Washington Capitals to a planned arena in Potomac Yard in Alexandria ...

  7. MCI Center (Los Angeles) - Wikipedia

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    MCI Center is a 126.3 m (414 ft) skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. It was completed in November, 1973 and has 33 floors. It is 32nd tallest building in Los Angeles. The MCI Center is a Class A building, with 63,032 m 2 (678,470 sq ft) of office space with a glass atrium and courtyard. On March 21, 2005 Jamison ...

  8. Verizon Center - Wikipedia

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    Verizon Center may refer to: Verizon Center (Mankato, Minnesota), now Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center, a multi-purpose arena in Mankato, Minnesota; Verizon Center (Washington, D.C.), now Capital One Arena; See also. Verizon Arena, now Simmons Bank Arena, in Little Rock, Arkansas; Verizon Wireless Arena, now SNHU Arena, in Manchester, New ...

  9. 707 17th Street - Wikipedia

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    707 17th Street. / 39.747056; -104.990378. 707 17th Street, formerly known as the MCI Building and Arco Tower, and now known as the Jacobs Building is a skyscraper in Denver, Colorado. The building was completed in 1981, and rises 42 floors and 522 feet (159 m) in height. [2] The building stands as the seventh-tallest building in Denver as of 2018.