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 rock institution refused to stay closed. Amos' Southend at 1423 South Tryon Street carries a name that started in 1990 as Amos' Bar and Bistro in the Park Road Shopping Center - christened for a fraternity brother's father to sweeten an investment pitch - and moved to South End in 2000 as a music venue that packed more than 1,300 people a night for The Roots, Skrillex, 30 Seconds to Mars, Method Man and Redman, and two decades of metal, tribute acts and touring rock. The 2016 closur.....

Dominating the skyline of uptown Charlotte, Bank of America Stadium is the home of the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League and of Charlotte FC in Major League Soccer. Opened in 1996, the open-air bowl was built as the centrepiece of professional sport in the Carolinas and remains one of the defining landmarks of the city, its distinctive silver panther statues guarding the main entrances. The stadium seats roughly seventy-five thousand spectators across three tiers and was designe.....

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 -.....

The grandest of the performance spaces at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, the Belk Theater is the principal concert hall of uptown Charlotte and the main stage for the city's flagship touring shows. Opened in 1992 as the centrepiece of the North Carolina Blumenthal arts complex on North Tryon Street, it was designed as a world-class multi-purpose theatre capable of hosting everything from Broadway productions to symphony concerts. The auditorium seats around two thousand one hundred peop.....

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.....