{"id":600345,"date":"2026-06-16T22:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/600345\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T22:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:42:14","slug":"stars-ceo-brad-alberts-weighs-in-on-future-of-american-airlines-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/600345\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars CEO Brad Alberts weighs in on future of American Airlines Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Airlines Center\u2019s future is up in the air after its two long-time tenants \u2014 the\u00a0Dallas Stars<\/a> and Dallas Mavericks<\/a> \u2014 announced earlier this month they are seeking to build new arenas once their existing lease expires in 2031.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stars President and CEO Brad Alberts<\/a> suggests the current arena shouldn\u2019t stand past that date.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t need another arena. We don\u2019t,\u201d he told The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday. \u201cIf the Mavericks are going to stay in the city, we\u2019re going to have another one. Then, we\u2019re\u00a0gonna go up there [to Plano], and you\u2019ve got one over in Fort Worth, too. Twenty years ago, we had one arena in Dallas and Fort Worth. Now, 25 years later, we\u2019re gonna have four?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Stars plan to build a hockey-only arena and entertainment district at The Shops at Willow Bend mall site in Plano<\/a>. The team plans to break ground in 2028 to have the building ready for the 2031-32 NHL season, which would be the first time the Stars play their home games outside of Dallas since the team relocated to Texas in 1993.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are planning to build an arena at the former Valley View Mall site<\/a>, which would be basketball-only.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Dallas Wings<\/a> are expected to have their own arena downtown<\/a> when Dallas Memorial Auditorium renovations are complete, though their move-in date has been up in the air for months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Add in the soon-to-be-renamed Dickie\u2019s in Fort Worth, and Dallas-Fort Worth\u00a0is set to have an abundance\u00a0of venues, all of which would be in competition for concerts and other traveling events coming to town.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That reality, plus the fact that AAC<\/a>\u00a0won\u2019t have a primary tenant to anchor operations after 2031, went into Alberts\u2019 reasoning as to why he thinks something should replace it. The building will also be by far the oldest of the bunch. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt probably needs to be something that now fits that neighborhood a little bit better from a real estate perspective, but I don\u2019t know what that is,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not my responsibility. It\u2019s not my decision or anything.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The area surrounding the AAC has evolved into an office hub and financial district. The Texas Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Scotiabank all have or will have offices in the vicinity. More high-rise buildings to create additional office space are just one idea for what the AAC site could become next decade. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Airlines Center\u2019s future is up in the air after its two long-time tenants \u2014 the\u00a0Dallas Stars and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[57285,196,147,5278,5,4,197,64591,61173],"class_list":["post-600345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-stars","tag-brad-alberts","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-stars","tag-dallasstars","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-stars","tag-tp-dallas-mavericks","tag-tp-dallas-stars"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116762204112611116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}