Sharks president Jonathan Becher recently spoke to NBC Sports California’s Alan Hoshida about why the overhaul of SAP Center is so necessary.

“Look, we all love this [place],” Becher told Hoshida. “This has been the heart of the Sharks for 30-plus years, it’s an iconic venue but it’s starting to show its age. The way you designed buildings in the 80s is different then you would design buildings now. And so you’re basically at a crossroads. Do you tear the baby down and try to build something new, which is really hard to do in Silicon Valley? Or do you say, ‘What would happen if I re-imagined how the building works?’

“What if I pretended I didn’t have 30 years of history and said, ‘How can we re-imagine the way the Tank works?’ How people approach it, how they get in, how they experience it, what the spaces look like. And so it’s the difference between changing the paint, like you might at your house vs. tearing it down to the studs and thinking [about] it all over again and we’re doing something closer to the second [option].”