Franklin Roosevelt opened the first one; Charlotte rebuilt the second from its own stones. American Legion Memorial Stadium at 310 North Kings Drive, in the Elizabeth neighbourhood beside Independence Park, began as a 1936 Works Progress Administration stadium honouring Mecklenburg County's First World War dead - FDR himself spoke at the opening - and spent eight decades hosting Shrine Bowls, high-school and college football, and concerts from Jimmy Buffett to Pearl Jam before age-related struct.....

Charlotte's crown jewel seats its farthest patron 135 feet from the stage. The Belk Theater is the largest hall of Blumenthal Arts at 130 North Tryon Street, the uptown performing-arts complex that opened in November 1992 as part of Cesar Pelli's ensemble with the Bank of America Corporate Center and Founders Hall. Built for roughly 43.6 million dollars, the 2,118-seat theatre takes the contemporary European horseshoe form - tiered rings wrapping the room so even the top balcony stays intimate -.....

A mid-century landmark of Charlotte, Bojangles Coliseum is a historic indoor arena on East Independence Boulevard that has served the city since opening in 1955. Notable on its debut for its vast freestanding domed roof, then among the largest of its kind in the world, the building was an engineering marvel of its era and has remained a versatile fixture of the city's sport and entertainment scene for the better part of seventy years. The arena holds around nine to ten thousand spectators and i.....

Charlotte's most flexible stage hides inside a Cesar Pelli tower. The Booth Playhouse is the mid-size room of the Blumenthal Arts Center at 130 North Tryon Street in uptown Charlotte, the 62-million-dollar complex the celebrated architect designed alongside the Bank of America Corporate Center and Founders Hall. The center opened in November 1992 after a funding campaign that stacked 15 million dollars from the State of North Carolina on a matching city bond and 32 million more from private dono.....

The largest public building project in North Carolina history opened in 1995 and has been growing into its city ever since. The Charlotte Convention Center at 501 South College Street in Uptown Charlotte opened on 1 February 1995, a 148-million-dollar facility by convention-hall specialists Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback and Associates that ranked among the nation's twenty largest by exhibit space on day one. The LYNX Blue Line light rail runs straight through the middle of the building - a rare.....

The copper chandelier over the bar is made from leftover brewing pipes that the owners took to a firing range and shot full of holes with an M-16 - a tribute to founder Kurt Hogan's distant relative, the 1930s gangster Baby Face Nelson. Heist Brewery, at 2909 North Davidson Street in Charlotte's NoDa arts district, opened in 2012 as the city's first true craft brewpub. The setting carries its own history: the brewpub fills part of the Highland Park Mill No. 3 building, once the largest textile .....

Charlotte built a football stadium before it had ever played a down: when the 49ers kicked off their first game on 31 August 2013 against Campbell, the horseshoe was already standing and 15,314 seats were already sold on the idea. Jerry Richardson Stadium, on the UNC Charlotte campus in northeast Charlotte, is the home of Charlotte 49ers football. The naming money built the program: Carolina Panthers founder Jerry Richardson and Bank of America's Hugh McColl bought the field naming rights in 20.....

Charlotte went a quarter century without a dedicated jazz club after Jonathan's Jazz Cellar closed - then a retired booking-agency mogul spent a million dollars fixing that. Middle C Jazz, at 300 South Brevard Street in uptown Charlotte, opened on 1 November 2019, named for the center key on a piano. The founders knew the business cold: Larry Farber - senior partner at EastCoast Entertainment, the country's largest regional booking agency - retired in 2019 and immediately built his decades-long.....

A beloved live-music venue in Charlotte's artsy NoDa district, the Neighborhood Theatre occupies a converted historic cinema on East 36th Street and has become a cornerstone of the city's music scene. Set in the neighbourhood that grew up around the old mill village and reinvented itself as an arts district, the venue carries the character of its single-screen origins into a warm, characterful room that has hosted touring and local acts for years. The venue is a flexible general-admission space.....

The building has been a mill-district movie house, an adult cinema with a brothel upstairs, a church music hall and finally one of the Southeast's essential rock rooms. The Neighborhood Theatre, at 511 East 36th Street in Charlotte's NoDa arts district, opened as the Astor Theatre in 1945 - its Tap Room now serving as the venue's small stage and bar. The decline was cinematic: built for the families of three surrounding textile mills, the Astor slid with the neighbourhood - by 1964 it was the A.....