A private membership community in a restored historic church on South Congress. Opening Winter 2026 — by invitation only.
Arena Hall is a private membership community rooted in a restored historic church on South Congress in Austin. Built on three years of active community in the city, it is where leaders connect through intentional hospitality, align around shared values, and collaborate on projects with real civic and commercial impact.
It is intentionally structured to resist transaction, spectacle, and anonymity — in favor of building relationships, trust, and continuity. The community is composed of people who carry real responsibility — founders, investors, artists, operators, and civic leaders — and who want their work, relationships, and lives to reinforce one another rather than compete for attention.
What happens here compounds because the same people keep showing up and take responsibility for one another and for what is built here.
The flagship campus formally opens following extensive restoration in Winter 2026. Founding membership is by invitation only.
Just behind Perla's on South Congress — after a $12 million, studs-out renovation, re-opening Winter 2026.
















Learn from leading minds over meals in community. Eight ways the calendar comes to life:
Ten new friends and co-conspirators — a personal Avengers squad to help you go build. We make that happen on purpose.
An intentional onboarding system, run by people. Our concierge team maps your primary work and operating role, your side projects and emerging bets, your intellectual interests and live questions, and your areas of personal and professional formation.
From there, we deliver a tailored action plan: precise, high-signal introductions · private invitations aligned to your work · small, purpose-built roundtables · internal guidebooks and pathways · curated Arena content by theme · and thoughtful onboarding for your spouse and family. Spouses are warmly welcomed — as guests, and as full members at the Patron level.
Before each gathering, members receive a note like this — three intentional introductions, picked against what they're actually working on.
Brad,
A few people I'd put in front of you tonight — each chosen against what you're actually working on. Two-sided intros: they have your name too.
"Appreciative love is, I think, often so great and so firmly based that each member of the circle feels, in his secret heart, humbled before the rest. Sometimes he wonders what he is doing there among his betters. He is lucky beyond desert to be in such company. Especially when the whole group is together; each bringing out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others."
"Those are the golden sessions: when four or five of us after a hard day's walk have come to our inn; when our slippers are on, our feet spread out toward the blaze and our drinks are at our elbows; when the whole world, and something beyond the world, opens itself to our minds as we talk; and no one has any claim on or any responsibility for another, but all are freemen and equals as if we had first met an hour ago, while at the same time an affection mellowed by the years enfolds us. Life — natural life — has no better gift to give. Who could have deserved it?"