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Reunion Arena

777 Sports St, Dallas, TX

The arena where the Mavericks and Stars played for two decades, and where Reagan accepted the 1984 nomination.

📅 1980–2008🏛️ StadiumDemolished
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The story

Reunion Arena opened on April 28, 1980, and its first concert was Parliament-Funkadelic on May 9. Queen filmed the video for Another One Bites the Dust there on August 9, 1980. The Dallas Mavericks played there from 1980 to 2001 and the Dallas Stars from 1993 to 2001, along with indoor soccer, arena football and other teams.

Ronald Reagan accepted his second-term nomination there during the 1984 Republican National Convention, and the building hosted the 1986 NCAA Final Four and NBA All-Star Game. Barack Obama held a campaign rally there on February 20, 2008, one of the last big events before closure. The arena closed on June 30, 2008. Demolition was completed on November 17, 2009, and the site was cleared by the end of that year.

What's There Now

The site is called Reunion Park and hosts events through the year, though the article says apartments are planned.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The Stars won the 1999 Stanley Cup in Buffalo, so the cup-clinching game was not played here, though Finals games were.
Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince all played sold-out runs.
The final event was a Group 1 Crew and Stellar Kart show on June 28, 2008.

Nearby history

Dallas Morning News Building (Young Street)

508 Young St · 313 m away
The newspaper's Young Street complex housed its operations for about six decades before the paper left in 2017.

Dallas Sportatorium

1000 S Industrial Blvd · 339 m away
A wrestling arena that hosted a weekly country music show, burned in 1953, and was torn down in 2003.

Dallas Public Library (temporary home)

400 S Houston St · 380 m away
In 1954 the building served as a temporary library while the city built a new central library.

Old Red Courthouse

100 S Houston St · 586 m away
A red sandstone courthouse built after four earlier ones on the site burned.

Dallas County Administration Building

411 Elm St · 688 m away
Dallas County renovated the lower five floors for offices after buying the building in 1977.

Dallas Times Herald Building

1101 Pacific Ave · 1.0 km away
The mid-century home of an afternoon newspaper that closed in 1991; the building was demolished two years later.

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Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reunion_Arena