W.B. Mason signs on as official sponsor for Barclays Center
Participating in this sponsorship deal:
About Sponsor:
W.B. Mason is a large office supply contract retailer that competes with Staples, OfficeMax, and Office Depot. W.B. Mason currently serves the New England and Mid-Atlantic areas of the United States. They have 29 distribution centers, roughly 1800 employees, 770 sales representatives, 200 delivery trucks, and over 100,000 customers.
About Property:
The Barclays Center is a sports arena currently under construction in Brooklyn, New York. The arena is being built partly on a platform over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority-owned Vanderbilt Yards at Atlantic Avenue. It is part of a proposed $4.9 billion sports arena, business and residential complex. The arena is intended to serve as a new home for the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets, currently based at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The team will be renamed the Brooklyn Nets starting with the arena's expected opening season of 2012–13.