Clayton County will now be able to host graduations, concerts, sporting events and more with the opening of the 8,000-seat Arena at Southlake.
Residents and students joined county and school district officials for a ribbon-cutting ceremony officially opening the arena on Wednesday, April 22.
The new arena is nestled slightly behind Morrow’s Southlake Mall. The venue initially started as a request for a convocation-style building for Clayton County Public Schools student graduations under former Superintendent Morcease Beasley.
“This vision, while it may have begun with me and this board and others who are around the table, the vision has always been bigger than any one individual,” Beasley said during the ribbon-cutting…