Megaplex

The Megaplex was to have been a 12,000-seat multipurpose arena and 75,000-square foot exhibit hall built at the corner of Fourth and Spring streets in downtown Little Rock. A measure to fund the arena in October 1977 was rejected by local voters by a three to one margin. Subsequent attempts to build the Diamond Center arena also failed in 1991 and 1993.

ALLTEL Arena opened on the north side of the river in 1999.

References

• "Commission to Sell Property Bought as Megaplex Site," Arkansas Gazette, January 17, 1979.
• Kim McGuire, "Alltel: An Arena for All Arkansas; On Saturday the Public Gets Its First Real Look at the New $80 Million Facility," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, September 26, 1999.