Arlington’s Entertainment District, a fun, happening place
Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas USA within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census results it is the third largest municipality in the Metroplex. Arlington is the seventh-largest city in Texas and the 50th largest city in the United States.
Located approximately 12 miles east of downtown Fort Worth and 20 miles west of downtown Dallas, Arlington is home to the University of Texas at Arlington, the Texas Rangers’ Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Cowboys Stadium, the International Bowling Campus (which houses the United States Bowling Congress, International Bowling Museum and the International Bowling Hall of Fame), the headquarters for American Mensa, and the theme parks Six Flags Over Texas (the original Six Flags) and Hurricane Harbor. The city borders Kennedale, Grand Prairie, Mansfield and Fort Worth, and surrounds the smaller communities of Dalworthington Gardens and Pantego. Arlington is the headquarters of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region IV.
The Entertainment District contains these seven major attractions: Six Flags Over Texas, Hurricane Harbor, Texas Rangers Ballpark, Legends of the Game Museum, Dallas Cowboys New Stadium, Lincoln Square Mall, and the Arlington Convention Center. You will also find here the Arlington Visitor Information Center. Announced new attractions include: the Glorypark Mixed-Use Development with Rangers Alley, International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame, and the Caelum Moor Sculpture Park. There are several more in the works, but not yet announced.
The Entertainment District is roughly bounded by I-30 (Tom Landry Freeway) on the north, SH 360 (Angus G. Wynn Jr. Freeway) on the east, E. Division St. (SH 180) on the south, and N. Collins St. (FM 157) on the west. It is a Hugh rectangular area containing most of Arlington’s major attractions.
It is an interesting twist of fate that the Entertainment District is nestled at the juncture of two freeways, whose names – Landry and Wynn – are so richly linked to two of Arlington’s major attractions – the Dallas Cowboys and Six Flags Over Texas.
In case you didn’t know, Six Flags was Wynn’s brainchild. Wynn was the developer of the mammoth Great Southwest Industrial Park. Six Flags was his answer to what to do with some left-over, undevelopable, flood-prone land. Wow! What a stroke of genius.
Arlington’s Entertainment District is indeed a fun, happening place.
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