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SACRAMENTO-

Construction crews began pouring the concrete foundation of the downtown Sacramento arena Friday night – a process expected to take until the end of February.

“About 2,000 cubic yards of concrete, and this is the first pour of what will be many more than that,” Sacramento Kings Chief Marketing Officer Ben Gumpert told FOX40. “Next comes steel, again early spring if not before. You’re going to start to see steel in the ground and you’re going to start to see the building coming up.”

The increased nighttime activity is drawing a mixed reaction from neighbors.

“I’m hopeful, I’m hopeful that we won’t hear too much noise,” Brian Fergel, who lives just a few blocks away, said.

While Fergel is worried about hearing the construction, other businesses like Sola Salon across the street is less concerned.

“This place is pretty well insulated so I don’t really hear too much,” stylist Akilah Hatchett-Fall said.

That’s because the concrete pouring is only happening at night, when the salon is closed.

“These concrete pours will only occur at night,” Gumpert said. “Again to make sure we’re minimizing any disruption whatsoever.”

Fergel thinks this is just the beginning of the construction noise – one of the many reasons he’s moving out of downtown.

“Going somewhere east of 16th street because there’s too much going on downtown,” he told FOX40.

Still, others are looking at the long-term benefits the arena is expected to bring.

“I think a few weeks is a drop in the bucket in what we will get in exchange for that,” Hatchett-Fall said.

Gumpert said the arena project is on budget and on schedule to open in 2016.