Tucson Community Center: Music Hall, Little Theater, Arena at 260 South Church Avenue, Tucson, Arizona 85701 were designed by the architectural firm of Friedman & Jobusch and Cain Nelson Ware & Cook (Morrison) in 1971.  An urban renewal project the site was prepared by demolishing blocks of nineteenth-century adobe architecture and displacing minority communities that called this historic core of the city home. The complex of buildings utilized large scale massing, cast-in-place concrete elements, and split face cast concrete block.  The Community Center buildings were unified and connected by a conrte and red-brick landscape plan (1971) designed by landscape architect Garrett Eckbo and Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  The landscape used water sequences, trees and plants as a counterpoint to the massive buildings.  The scale, monumental form and material all fit within the emerging popularity of the brutalist style in Tucson, in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

(Written by Demion Clinco, Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation)

In use and in good condition. Heritage protected.
The Tucson Convention Center was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
Modernizations and renovations were carried out in 1987 and 2014, primarily focusing on technical upgrades and interior infrastructure rather than on altering the building’s architectural expression (last updated on December 17, 2025).