Reunion Arena

Reunion Arena stood in the Reunion district of downtown Dallas, Texas, as a multi-purpose indoor venue. Construction finished in 1980, costing $27 million. It was the last NBA or NHL arena built without luxury suites and the last NHL venue to use an American Sign and Indicator scoreboard; its color matrix messageboards were swapped for Sony Jumbotron screens in 1991.

The arena held 17,000 for ice hockey and 18,190 for basketball. It was home to the Dallas Mavericks from 1980 to 2001 and the Dallas Stars from 1993 to 2001, both of which moved to the American Airlines Center. The Dallas Desperados arena football team played there in 2003 before also returning to the American Airlines Center. The last full-time sports tenant was the MISL Dallas Sidekicks, inactive after fall 2004.

Reunion hosted the WCT Tennis Tournament in the 1980s, including the Virginia Slims Invitational; a scheduling conflict in 1984 forced the Mavericks to play Game 5 of their first playoff series at Moody Coliseum. University of Arkansas Razorbacks fans called it "Barnhill South" due to their large away following. The venue held the Southwest Conference men's basketball tournament from 1982–1983 and 1985–1996, the 1986 NCAA Final Four, and World Class Championship Wrestling’s bi-monthly Star Wars events in the 1980s.

WWE taped SmackDown there on December 21, 1999, and November 9, 2000, and hosted the Fully Loaded pay-per-view in July 2000.

Politically, President Ronald Reagan spoke at a prayer breakfast of about 10,000 on August 23, 1984, during the Republican National Convention. Ross Perot made his final 1992 campaign stop there, drawing roughly 5,000. President Bill Clinton attended in 1994 to watch the University of Arkansas basketball team in the NCAA tournament. President George W. Bush headlined a rally for Governor Rick Perry before 13,000 on November 6, 2006. Barack Obama filled the arena to its 17,000 capacity on February 20, 2008, with many turned away by the fire department—one of the last events before demolition.

The first musical act to perform was Parliament-Funkadelic on May 9, 1980, though The Who was promoted as the first concert on July 2. At least five other concerts—Boz Scaggs, the Commodores, The Oak Ridge Boys, Foghat with the Pat Travers Band, and a triple bill of Ted Nugent, Scorpions, and Def Leppard—were booked before the official opening.