History
The Verizon Center, located in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Chinatown, originally opened on on December 2, 1997 as the MCI Center, named after its sponsor, MCI Inc. Nearly a decade later, in January 2006, Verizon Communications purchases MCI Inc., and the arena's name is changed accordingly. The following year, in 2007, the "first true indoor high-definition LED scoreboard" was installed at the Verizon Center.
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