The latest makeover in the Pearl stable’s long history at the Pearl will transform the 19th-century building into a state-of-the-art concert hall slated to open in spring 2023.
The building will be renamed Stable Hall. It will include an adjoining biergarten that will serve German dishes from the hill region.
Stable Hall, which is designed to evoke historic Texas dance halls, will have wooden floors and a restored wooden ceiling with hand-painted murals on the walls. With a capacity of 1,000 people, it will be comparable in size to Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, which has a capacity of 800 people.
Stable Hall will feature local, regional and national acts. San Antonio musicians featured in a press release among those who will play there include Azul Barrientos, Campanas de America and Santiago Jiménez Jr.
The venue will be managed by WoodHouse, an entertainment operator and developer.
National numbers will be booked by Jay Sweet, who works with major festivals like the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, and the Pilgrimage Music and Cultural Festival in Franklin, Tennessee.
As this rendering shows, Stable Hall will feature an outdoor biergarten.
Clayton Korte
concert hall scheduled to open in 2023.”/>Rendering of the exterior of the Stable Hall, the renovation of the Pearl Stable building at the Pearl. It is being transformed into a concert hall scheduled to open in 2023.
Clayton Korte
Rendering of the exterior of the Stable Hall, the renovation of the Pearl Stable building at the Pearl. It is being transformed into a concert hall scheduled to open in 2023.
The room will have a jewelry box scene, with floor seating as well as a curved balcony.
Clayton Korte, a San Antonio and Austin-based architecture firm, will work on the project with Austin-based interior design firm Joel Mozersky Design.
Stable Hall is the second new concert hall announced in San Antonio in recent months. The Tech Port Center + Arena, a live entertainment and esports facility in Port San Antonio with a capacity of 3,100, will host its first concert in May when the Smashing Pumpkins play there.
The building that will become Stable Hall was built as a stable to house the Pearl Brewery’s draft horses in the days before motorized vehicles. When horses were no longer needed to transport Pearl Moss, the building became a western-themed hospitality space called The Corral. It closed around the time of HemisFair 68, and three years later it was redone in a Gay Nineties theme, including red flocked wallpaper and brass chandeliers. Once the Pearl began operating as a mixed-use development, a project that began in 2001, the building became an event facility.
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