This complex includes the Civic Center, Julie Rogers Theater and the Jefferson Theatre.

[5] The Beaumont Civic Center was the home court for the Lamar Cardinals basketball men's team for four seasons from 1980 to 1984.

[6][7][8][9][10] The Southland Conference men's basketball tournament was held at the Beaumont Civic Center in 1981, 1983, and 1984.

[11][12] The Lamar Cardinals men's basketball team's eighty (80) game home court winning streak started at McDonald Gym on February 18, 1978.

The remaining forty-three (43) straight home court wins of the streak were at the Beaumont Civic Center.