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The AT&T Center – San Antonio’s state-of-the-art arena – opened in November, 2002. A public-private venture amongst Bexar County, the Coliseum Advisory Board, the San Antonio Livestock Show & Rodeo and Spurs Sports & Entertainment, the AT&T Center truly offers, “Something for Everyone.” The facility hosts four anchor tenants: the NBA Spurs, the AHL Rampage, the WNBA Silver Stars and the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo. Additionally, the venue attracts a multitude of concerts, family shows and special events. In five years of operation, the AT&T Center has hosted over 750 events entertaining over eight million guests.
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George Strait, The Rolling Stones, Billy Joel & Elton John, The Police, Luciano Pavarotti, Green Day and Hannah Montana are just a few of the musical acts that have visited the AT&T Center. Other events – including NCAA Basketball, WWE Royal Rumble, The Wiggles, and Professional Mixed Martial Arts Cage Fighting – have also made stops at the venue. The facility offers diverse events to the San Antonio community and all of South Texas thanks in part to its various seating capabilities, building configurations, curtaining system and technology upgrades. To complement every event held at the venue, AT&T recently enhanced the arena by adding a LED ring and four video/scoring panels to the scoreboard, two lobby LED color matrix displays and over six hundred LCD HDTVs throughout the arena. To leverage its ancillary meeting spaces and exhibition/trade configurations, the AT&T Center offers MSEs – Meetings and Special Events – throughout the year. This additional amenity further illustrates the facility’s full-service approach and has resulted in non-traditional bookings such as Toyota’s 2007 National Dealer Meeting and Product Launch, Ford’s Customer Appreciation Concert with Toby Keith, and AT&T’s 2007 National Leadership Meeting.
Built in a “ranch tech” style, the AT&T Center is designed to present a sense of place, both inside and out. The external view, in addition to its distinctive architecture, features park-like landscaping that’s both visually appealing and environmentally friendly. Inside, the design continues to capture the South Texas ambiance with festive colors and imaginative details. Adding to the interior appeal of the AT&T Center is a collection of fine art commissioned by Spurs owners Peter and Julianna Holt. The diverse collection is valued in excess of one million dollars and features Texas-, modern- and basketball-styled themes. “We are enormously proud of the AT&T Center and what it brings to the community,” said Holt, chairman of Spurs Sports & Entertainment. “We’re proud to have been part of the effort. Now we can provide South Texas with some of the best sports and entertainment available anywhere in the U.S.”
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