Indeed, of the Top 10 events for the city of Dallas in 2018, based on hotel room night occupancy, four of them - the NFL Draft, Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, Big 12 Conference Football Championship and the Mexican National Team U. When you have a 100,000-person event, there aren’t enough hotel rooms in any one city to take care of it.” Because of the events that are there, we’re sending people all over the Metroplex that spend money in the restaurants (and) stay in the hotels. “Everyone benefits from AT&T Stadium being in Arlington, including Dallas, Fort Worth and all of our surrounding cities. “It has been a catalyst to grow both tourism and jobs in our community,” Williams said. For certain the stadium, which opened in 2009, fueled a huge economic turnaround in Arlington that Williams contends has spread throughout North Texas. In fact, one could argue that the legendary stadium has been seen by many from around the world through high-profile televised events or by those who actually visit Arlington, and it’s hard to imagine it having any greater impact if it had been located elsewhere. Not only is it visible to freeway motorists, but also to many passengers who fly in and out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. You can see it from Fort Worth to Hurst-Euless-Bedford to Dallas.” They left it where it is and of course, it’s iconic. it would have hurt our traffic patterns if we had moved the stadium up to the freeway. “They asked HKS and myself to do a site line study and we prepared that,” said current Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams, who at the time was the civil engineer for the project. He wanted the architects and engineers to do something about it.
Jones worried that the stadium’s planned location at the intersection of Randol Mill Road and Collins Street in Arlington, Texas, might cost him both money and prestige. When the HKS-designed stadium was in its planning stages more than a decade ago, owner Jerry Jones was concerned that the 3 million square foot, 300-feet tall edifice might not be visible from nearby Interstate 30, the high-volume freeway that connects Dallas and Fort Worth. For anyone even remotely familiar with AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, the idea seems laughable now.
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