The Texas Rangers gameday expertise has modified tremendously over time because the Arlington Entertainment District has gone from imaginative and prescient to actuality.

That district is now residence to the Dallas Cowboys, Texas Live! and a number of lodges within the space, together with a brand new Rangers ballpark, and metropolis leaders inform NBC 5 that development isn’t slowing down.

Longtime Rangers followers keep in mind when strolling out of the ballpark after a sport didn’t result in the view you’ll discover nowadays outdoors of Globe Life Field. 

“I mean obviously this is a whole community and development that didn’t exist years ago,” stated Kimberly Branch. “It’s loads of leisure right here, those who don’t even essentially go to a sport, they’re right here due to the setting, the vibe.”

Today attending a Rangers sport will deliver you into the center of the Arlington Entertainment District.

City leaders stated the imaginative and prescient for the district dates again no less than to the early 2000s when the plan was to construct a shopping mall across the former Rangers stadium Globe Life Park, now Choctaw Stadium.

“And so that did not materialize, especially in the midst of 2008 and everything that kind of happened with the financial difficulties at the time,” stated Brent DeRaad, President of the Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau.

What the district did get: the Dallas Cowboys, who started enjoying throughout the road at AT&T Stadium in 2009.

Since then, the district has added two Loews lodges, bars and eating places at Texas Live!, a brand new Arlington Convention Center, and the latest ballpark in Major League Baseball in Globe Life Field.

City leaders stated it’s all been a part of $3.9 billion in public/personal funding within the district in recent times.

“There’s just so much more Rangers fans can be able to see and do before the game,” stated DeRaad.

There’s extra to return, as subsequent 12 months the One Rangers Way mission will add the primary luxurious residences to the district.

And the National Medal of Honor Museum is ready to open within the district in March 2025.

The metropolis stated Arlington’s annual tourism income is as much as $2.6 billion, twice as a lot because it was a decade in the past.

“And we’re really excited about that, that number has grown significantly, and we really feel like we’re on the precipice of that exploding even further,” stated DeRaad.

Baseball followers advised NBC 5 they hoped all this development meant Rangers sport days would maintain getting higher.

“I think it’s going to be great,” stated Branch. “Great for the community and great for the area, great for Arlington.”