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 championship in 1999, and George Strait's 2013 concert drew 73,086, still the largest show in San Antonio history. The rectilinear dome's cable-supported roof and column-free interior let it shape-shift: 20,662 for arena-configuration basketball (expandable well beyond for Final Fours), 30,000-plus for arena concerts, up to 77,000 for centre-stage stadium shows, plus ice hockey, boxing, wrestling, monster trucks and the trade-show floor of a convention centre. Since 2011 it has been home to UTSA Roadrunners football - whose debut drew an FBS-startup-record 56,743 - and it hosts the Valero Alamo Bowl every winter. Renovations in 2008, 2009 and 2017 kept the 1993 building current, and the city-owned operation sits within walking distance of downtown, the Riverwalk extensions and the Amtrak station. Three decades on, the dome remains what its builders promised: the biggest room in South Texas, booked accordingly. The marquee bookings have kept coming for thirty years: four NCAA men's Final Fours, the 2018 and 2025 regionals, U2, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Metallica stadium shows, WWE Royal Rumbles, international soccer friendlies and the annual Battle of Flowers weekend events. The building's convention-floor mode - 160,000 square feet of exhibit space - still earns its keep between spectacles, exactly the hybrid the 1993 planners sold to the voters who funded it.

Type: Stadium / Arena

Address: 100 Montana Street, San Antonio, TX, United States, 78203

Website: https://www.alamodome.com

Capacity: 64000

Opening Date: 15/05/1993

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