Paycom Center Oklahoma City Concert
Downtown Oklahoma City
Paycom Center is Oklahoma City's most important arena — an 18,000-capacity downtown OKC venue where the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team and major concerts serve the Great Plains' most dramatically improved city. OKC's extraordinary Thunder basketball culture (Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden all played here) and Paycom Center's consistent programming of major acts create an arena of genuine Oklahoma sporting and entertainment significance.
Bricktown Oklahoma City Entertainment
Bricktown Canal Oklahoma City
Bricktown is Oklahoma City's most spectacular entertainment success story — a former warehouse district transformed by a $36 million canal project into the most vibrant entertainment destination in the Great Plains. Bricktown's remarkable transformation from urban decay to outstanding restaurants, excellent bars, a beautiful minor league baseball park, and a water taxi canal represent the most dramatic urban revival story in the American South, driven by OKC's visionary MAPS investment program.
Bricktown Entertainment District Oklahoma City
Bricktown
Bricktown Entertainment District is Oklahoma City's crown jewel of urban revitalization — a former warehouse district flanking a navigable canal that has been transformed into OKC's most visited entertainment destination with restaurants, bars, water taxis, and Paycom Center at its heart. The district attracts 7 million visitors annually and serves as the social gathering point for the Oklahoma City metropolitan area's rapidly growing young professional population, anchored by the NBA Thunder's cultural impact on the city's identity.
Bricktown Entertainment District OKC
Bricktown OKC
Bricktown is Oklahoma City's most celebrated entertainment district — a stunning 1890s warehouse district with a canal system, baseball stadium, concert venues, and the most concentrated entertainment experience in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma City National Memorial (commemorating the 1995 bombing) and the Bricktown entertainment complex's extraordinary vitality together create a downtown entertainment environment that reflects both OKC's most painful history and its most inspiring renaissance.
Chesapeake Energy Arena OKC Historic
Oklahoma City Arena District
The arena now known as Paycom Center (formerly Chesapeake Energy Arena) hosted some of the most important NBA moments in Oklahoma City's history — including Kevin Durant's extraordinary MVP season, Russell Westbrook's record-breaking triple-double season, and the birth of Oklahoma City's NBA culture following the thunder relocation from Seattle in 2008. OKC's remarkable sports transformation and the arena's legendary sporting moments create a venue of genuine American professional basketball significance.
Zoo Amphitheater Oklahoma City Outdoor
Zoo Oklahoma City
Zoo Amphitheater is Oklahoma City's most beloved outdoor concert venue — an open-air amphitheater adjacent to the Oklahoma City Zoo presenting outstanding summer concerts. Zoo Amphitheater's beautiful outdoor setting and its remarkable summer concert programming create an outdoor entertainment venue of genuine Oklahoma City community cultural significance.
Paycom Center
Bricktown
Paycom Center is Oklahoma City's premier arena — a 18,203-seat facility in the Bricktown entertainment district that is home to the NBA Oklahoma City Thunder and host of major concerts for the entire Oklahoma market. Located adjacent to the vibrant Bricktown Canal entertainment area with restaurants, bars, and live music venues, the arena anchors what has become one of the most successful downtown revitalization projects in the American South.
The Criterion Oklahoma City
Bricktown
The Criterion is Oklahoma City's finest mid-size concert venue — a 3,500-capacity club in Bricktown that books the biggest touring acts below arena scale for the OKC market. Its location in the Bricktown entertainment district adjacent to Paycom Center and the OKC canal waterway creates an entertainment ecosystem where concertgoers can dine, drink, and explore before and after shows in one of the most successful downtown revitalization projects in the American South.
Paycom Center Oklahoma City
Paycom Center is Oklahoma City's most important entertainment venue — a 18,203-capacity downtown arena home to the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team and one of the South's most active concert destinations. The Thunder's extraordinary community impact (OKC's swift embrace of the relocated SuperSonics in 2008 created one of the NBA's most passionate fanbases within months) and the arena's consistent concert programming create one of the most economically vital arenas in the Southern United States.
Civic Center Music Hall Oklahoma City
Downtown Oklahoma City
Civic Center Music Hall is Oklahoma City's most important performing arts venue — a stunning 2,500-seat Art Deco hall presenting the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Oklahoma City Ballet, and major Broadway touring productions. Oklahoma City's extraordinary growth and the Civic Center's role as the primary performing arts destination for a metropolitan area of over 1.4 million create a cultural institution of genuine importance to Oklahoma's artistic life.
Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra Showroom
Oklahoma City Downtown
Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the finest orchestras in the American South — presenting outstanding classical concerts at the Civic Center Music Hall. OKC Philharmonic's remarkable programming breadth and its extraordinary community engagement create an orchestra of genuine Oklahoma classical music cultural significance.
Midtown OKC Entertainment District Oklahoma
Midtown Oklahoma City
Midtown Oklahoma City is the most rapidly developing entertainment district in the Great Plains — a NW 10th Street corridor where outstanding independent restaurants, excellent craft cocktail bars, and the remarkable creative energy of OKC's arts community create an entertainment experience of considerable Oklahoma urban culture significance. Midtown's remarkable collection of beautiful bungalows and outstanding independent establishments create an entertainment district of genuine Oklahoma independent culture significance.