Capital One Arena in downtown D.C. remains a construction zone, but owner Monumental Sports & Entertainment is ready to welcome basketball, hockey and music fans again beginning Friday.⁠ ⁠ Monumental wants to make sure fans are aware of the ongoing work they’ll encounter when they arrive at the arena.⁠ ⁠ “I think in a perfect world we would have snapped our fingers and made it happen all over the course of one summer, but that just wasn't a reality,” Monumental President of Venues Jordan Silberman said.⁠ ⁠ Fans will want to be ready for scaffolding and pedestrian protected walkways.⁠ ⁠ There’s a new main entrance to the arena. It's still on F Street, but it's closer to the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station, and it will be bigger, wider and easier for fans to get through, Monumental says.⁠ ⁠ But fans will have to navigate a lot of construction before getting to the door.⁠ ⁠ There's equipment, workers on the job, scaffolding and covered sidewalks around the building.⁠ ⁠ The season ki...