McAllen Convention & Visitors Bureau

I continue to be amazed at the growth of the Entertainment District in McAllen. This started out about two years ago with the hope that we might have five or six lounges, bars/grills, etc. with maybe a little live entertainment a couple of nights a week. We now have about fifteen or twenty locations in a district that has expanded from three blocks to eleven. There is live entertainment many nights a week and a lot of it is "high end" imported acts from all over the country. We now have lounges, bars and grills, and restaurants on 17th St. and on Austin Street as well. There are about a dozen more locations that are currently under construction. It's easy to see the ones under construction-the building fronts are covered in plywood and the sound of carpenters is constant. It's an exciting time to live in McAllen