Curtis Hixon Hall was an indoor sports arena, convention center, concert venue, and special events center which was located at 600 Ashley Drive along the Hillsborough River in downtown Tampa, Florida. It opened in 1965, and was the primary concert, indoor sports, and civic gathering place for the city of Tampa for about twenty years. The construction of more specialized facilities around town in the early 1980s greatly reduced the number of events at Curtis Hixon Hall, and the opening of the much larger Tampa Convention Center in 1990 made it obsolete.