San Antonio built a dome for a football team it did not have - and filled it anyway. The Alamodome at 100 Montana Street, on the southeastern edge of downtown, opened on 15 May 1993 after a 186-million-dollar build intended to boost convention traffic, lure an NFL franchise and give the Spurs a bigger home. The NFL never came, but the 64,000-seat, five-level indoor stadium - expandable to 72,000 - became the city's everything-building: the Spurs played nine seasons here including their first NBA.....

Elvis and Roy Rogers played it in its first years, and a quarter of a million people came through the gates on the opening day of its first rodeo. Freeman Coliseum, at 3201 East Houston Street just northeast of downtown San Antonio, opened on 19 October 1949 as the Bexar County Coliseum - an Art Deco arena built after county voters passed a 1.75-million-dollar bond in 1945, later named for philanthropist brothers Harry and Joe Freeman who championed its construction. For half a century it was t.....

The quieter half of one of Texas's busiest event campuses, the Freeman Expo Halls supply the square footage that the historic coliseum next door cannot. Located at 3201 East Houston Street on the Bexar County Community Arenas grounds - shared with the 1949 Freeman Coliseum and the Spurs' Frost Bank Center - the expo complex was built in 2007 to bring larger and more diverse trade events to San Antonio. The inventory is straightforward and flexible: four climate-controlled halls totalling about .....

The principal indoor arena of San Antonio, Texas, Frost Bank Center is best known as the long-time home of the city's celebrated professional basketball team and as the region's premier venue for major concerts and events. Opened in 2002 and known for much of its life under previous corporate names, the arena sits on the city's east side and has hosted some of the most memorable moments in local sport, including championship celebrations. The arena seats around eighteen and a half thousand for .....

Beyond its celebrated historic landmarks of the Alamo, the River Walk and the Spanish missions, San Antonio offers a substantial and steadily growing menu of games, indoor entertainment and family activities that fill the city's rainy afternoons and long Texas evenings. Several large entertainment complexes, themed escape-room operators, immersive virtual-reality venues, indoor go-kart tracks, axe-throwing halls and arcade-bars cluster across the city, providing visitors and locals with plenty o.....

On the celebrated River Walk in downtown San Antonio, the city's Hard Rock Cafe occupies a prime spot on Crockett Street, just steps from the historic Alamo and the network of restaurants and shops that line the riverbank. The chain's San Antonio location has long been a popular destination among the millions of visitors who flock to the heart of the city each year, drawn by the unique combination of Texan history and the sub-tropical riverside cafe culture that has defined the River Walk since .....

The entire main floor rides on a Gala lift system: overnight, 600 theatre seats sink away and the room becomes a flat-floor hall for 2,100 - one of the most flexible major venues in America. The H-E-B Performance Hall is the centrepiece of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts at 100 Auditorium Circle on San Antonio's River Walk, opened on 4 September 2014 behind the preserved 1926 facade of the old Municipal Auditorium. The site's history runs deep: the Spanish Mission-style Municipal Audit.....

It was built to throw a party for a city's 250th birthday: the complex opened with HemisFair '68, the world's fair that remade downtown San Antonio, and never stopped hosting. The Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, at 900 East Market Street along the River Walk, is today a 1.6-million-square-foot facility hosting more than 300 events and 750,000 delegates a year. The original 1968 complex - exhibit hall, domed arena and theatre, built for 10.9 million dollars on urban-renewal land - anchored .....

In 1973 neighbours stood between this building and the bulldozers, using their bodies as shields - and won. The Jo Long Theatre for the Performing Arts, the 650-seat mainstage of the Carver Community Cultural Center at 226 North Hackberry Street on San Antonio's Eastside, is the survivor of one of the city's great acts of civil defiance. The building went up in 1918 as a community centre for African-Americans in segregated San Antonio, becoming the Colored Library - renamed the Carver Library a.....

On the historic stretch of Commerce Street just steps from the celebrated River Walk in downtown San Antonio, the LEGOLAND Discovery Center is the international chain's newest North American venue, opened in May 2022 at the Shops at Rivercenter shopping mall. The centre occupies more than 30,000 square feet of bright, interactive space packed with LEGO-themed rides, model displays, hands-on building areas and family entertainment, all geared toward children aged three through ten and their famil.....