{"id":2240988,"date":"2026-01-19T16:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2240988"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:34:31","slug":"sphere-entertainment-confirms-plans-for-smaller-ccale-sphere-venue-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sphere-entertainment-confirms-plans-for-smaller-ccale-sphere-venue-in-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Sphere Entertainment Confirms Plans for Smaller-Ccale Sphere Venue in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"hs_cos_wrapper_post_body\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sphere Entertainment Co. has announced plans to develop a new Sphere venue at National Harbor in Maryland, which would become the second Sphere location in the US and the first to use the company\u2019s smaller-scale venue design.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Building on the success of the Las Vegas Sphere, plans have been unveiled to build a new, smaller-scale Sphere at National Harbor, Maryland. The project is being developed in partnership with the State of Maryland, Prince George\u2019s County, and Peterson Companies. It remains subject to the usual list of final agreements, approvals, and the receipt of roughly $200 million in state and local incentives.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hs-embed-wrapper\" data-service=\"youtube\" data-responsive=\"true\" style=\"position: relative; overflow: hidden; width: 100%; height: auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 600px; min-width: 256px; display: block; margin: auto;\">\n<div class=\"hs-embed-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sphere 2025 Year In Review \ud83d\udc40\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gt2ISRfhz-o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>First Smaller-Scale Sphere Design<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The proposed venue would have a seating capacity of around 6000, making it roughly a third of the capacity of the existing Sphere in Las Vegas. Despite the reduced size, Sphere Entertainment says the venue will retain the company\u2019s core technology platform. <span style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;\">Plans at the moment <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;\">include an exterior Exosphere LED display<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;\">\u00a0alongside<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;\"> a 16K x 16K interior LED display \u2014 the same resolution but presumably smaller than the 160,000 square foot (14,900 sq m) Vegas screen, which is currently ranked as the\u00a0top-grossing venue worldwide<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;\">. The venue would also incorporate Sphere Immersive Sound, haptic seating, and 4D environmental effects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For those of us still miffed about Sphere London never happening, the smaller-format design is intended to support expansion into a wider range of global markets. There&#8217;s already a planned venue in Abu Dhabi, and the company says it has also designed plans for various sized Spheres for different locations around the world.<\/p>\n<p>As for the National Harbor site, it&#8217;s located approximately 15 minutes from Washington, DC, and already attracts more than 15 million visitors annually. Sphere<span style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;\">says the project would support around 2500 jobs during construction and approximately 4750 jobs once operational. Annual economic impact is projected to exceed $1 billion. Which we reckon means that a London Sphere (<em>Or a Belfast one come to that. Ed.<\/em>) is an absolute no-brainer for the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.0\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.redsharknews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sphere Entertainment Co. has announced plans to develop a new Sphere venue at National Harbor in Maryland, which would become the second Sphere location in the US and the first to use the company\u2019s smaller-scale venue design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sphere-Entertainment-Confirms-Plans-for-Smaller-Ccale-Sphere-Venue-in-Maryland.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240990,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240988\/revisions\/2240990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}