More than 150 people gathered Wednesday in a parking lot outside Globe Life Park for the ceremonial groundbreaking of the $250 million Texas Live! entertainment complex, with hopes that it will be open in time for the 2018 baseball season.
Tom Grieve, the longtime Rangers broadcaster who also served a stint as the team’s general manager, said the 200,000-square-foot venue, which will include a luxury 300-room high-rise hotel plus 35,000 square feet of meeting/convention space, will spark the long-awaited development promised when the Rangers opened the ballpark in 1994.
“This dynamic world-class project will cement Arlington as the premiere sports, entertainment and hospitality destination in the country for decades to come,” Grieve said, kicking off an hourlong lineup of speakers.