Texas Live! on Pace to Open This Summer
The Entertainment Capital of Texas is about to get even bigger, as
another project is closer to being realized in The American Dream City.
The $250 million Texas Live! entertainment com plex is
on pace for a summer grand opening, offering visitors to
Arlington’s Entertainment District exciting new options
for live music, food and drinks and a great time. inside his future restaurant space during Tuesday’s Texas
Live! tour. “What a treasure for the City of Arlington
to put to be able to this on display. It’s tremendous.
Arlington should be proud, residents should be proud.”
Texas Live! will feature 200,000 square feet of dining and
entertainment space, a 5,000-capacity outdoor event
pavilion called Arlington Backyard, and the flagship Live!
by Loews hotel, which opens in summer 2019. With more than $1.25 billion in new investment between
Texas Live! and the future retractable-roof ballpark for
the Texas Rangers, Reed Cordish said there’s nothing in
the country that can compete with what The American
Dream City has to offer.
MyArlingtonTV and local media were invited to tour
Texas Live!, which will include Lockhart Smokehouse,
flagship PBR Cowboys Bar, a Guy Fieri restaurant, and a
newly announced gourmet burger restaurant owned by
Cowboys legend Troy Aikman.
Aikman applauded Arlington, the Texas Rangers and
The Cordish Companies for creating another dynamic
destination for residents, sports fans and tourists and
said he was excited to be opening his first restaurant at
Texas Live! this summer.
“This complex between the two stadiums is going to
be unlike anything else. It really all comes together and
makes for a great experience for the fans,” Aikman said
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“This is going to be a great place for locals, a regional
draw and a true national draw,” said Cordish, principal of
The Cordish Companies.
Construction is also well under way on the 14-story Live!
by Loews hotel. The flagship hotel with 302 rooms and
35,000 square feet of meeting/convention space is set
to open in summer 2019. The iconic tower, designed
by Globe Life Field architects HKS, will feature several
unique resort-style spaces and amenities and multiple
restaurant and bars, including the local Revolver Brewery.
“As massive as this first phase of Texas Live! is, we and the
Rangers and the City feel like this is only the beginning
of what we can accomplish here,” Cordish said.