The district is already booming, with planned National Medal of Honor Museum, another luxury hotel and convention center
The first two games of the series brought nearly 85,000 people to Globe Life Field alone, with 42,472 people in attendance at Game 1 and 42,500 at Game 2 — while seating capacity is listed at 40,500, standing room tickets can push attendance higher. That doesn’t include those who flocked to the city to watch the game at venues like Texas Live where an estimated 10,000 fans visited on both Friday and Saturday.
“There will be a whole new level of tourism attracted to Arlington with these developments,” Payne said. “It all increases the ability for us to have bigger events, and I expect that we will see proposals for other hotels as time goes along because it’s turning out to be a really great location with a lot of interest in development.