Curtis Hixon Hall

About

Curtis Hixon Hall was an indoor sports arena, convention center, concert venue, and special events center which was located at 600 Ashley Drive along the Hillsborough River in downtown Tampa, Florida. Named after Curtis Hixon, a long-time Tampa mayor who died in 1956 during his fourth term in the office, it opened in 1965 and was the primary concert, indoor sports, and civic gathering place for the city for about twenty years. The construction of newer and more specialized facilities around town during the 1980s gradually reduced the number of events held at the Hall, and the opening of the much larger Tampa Convention Center in 1990 made it obsolete.

The Hall was demolished in 1993, and the land was converted into a public park. The park was redesigned and incorporated into the Tampa Riverwalk in 2010, and the facility's former footprint is now home to the Tampa Museum of Art, the Glazer Children’s Museum, and the northern portions of Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park.