Southwestern College Performing Arts Center in Chula Vista is a $66 million Tucker Sadler Architects-designed facility at the corner of East H Street and Otay Lakes Road, housing 48,575 square feet of performance and production space across a Mayan-inspired structure. The 513-seat main stage spans 10,481 square feet with two levels of tiered seating, a removable concert shell, grand piano, and sprung dance floor, while the 2,448-square-foot Black Box theater below seats up to 170 in configurable layouts — theater-in-the-round, thrust, or proscenium — giving student and community companies the staging flexibility that complements the intimate black-box programming at On Stage Playhouse. An outdoor amphitheater with tiered seating occupies the west-facing slope, taking advantage of the site's natural grade for open-air concerts and ceremonies. The Theatre Arts Department stages full-scale plays and musicals in the facility each semester, anchoring a South Bay performing-arts corridor that extends to visual-arts institutions such as Bonita Museum & Cultural Center in the neighboring Bonita community. The main-stage rigging grid supports full-fly scenery, automated lighting trusses, and a multi-channel sound reinforcement system calibrated for both amplified musical theater and unamplified orchestral performance within the same acoustic envelope.