A 19-story hotel in Arlington’s Entertainment District will be imploded Saturday to make way for a new hotel, Americana by Loews. The Sheraton Arlington, the white tower currently visible north of the stadiums along Interstate 30, was built in 1984 as the Sheraton Centre Park Hotel on the site of the former Seven Seas Marine Park. The hotel was an anchor for the 1980s Centre Park development that included the construction of the city’s convention center, now known as the Esports Stadium and offered hundreds of rooms to support the Texas Rangers and tourists visiting Six Flags Over Texas and Wet ‘n Wild. The 311-room hotel will be brought down by a controlled implosion at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, June 6. Several roads are expected to be closed in the area, including East Copeland Road, ATT Way and Convention Center Drive from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. and a rolling stop will be in place along Ballpark Way from 8:20 to 8:40 a.m. Texas Sky Ranger will be overhead when the implosion occurs and a live stream will be available at the top of this article. The Arlington City Council approved a plan in 2023 to build a new 507-room hotel on the site in partnership with Loews Hotels that will include 83,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting and event space. That’ll include a 10,000-square-foot “Event Barn” for large-scale gatherings. The Sheraton Arlington permanently closed in February to begin demolition preparations. Construction on the new hotel will begin this summer. Americana by Loews is expected to open in either late 2028 or early 2029. ...read more read less