Concerts at The Shell in downtown San Diego presents year-round programming at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, an $85 million open-air amphitheater that opened in 2021 on the Embarcadero waterfront. The 3,865-square-foot covered stage, engineered by London-based Soundforms and designed by Tucker Sadler Architects, drives 100-plus performances annually from full San Diego Symphony orchestra programs to touring headliners, the same cross-genre programming model that indoor performing arts venues like the Balboa Theatre run on a smaller seated scale. A sloping artificial-turf lawn scales from 2,000 to 10,000 seats using temporary configurations, with five seating zones ranging from four-top table service nearest the stage to general-admission lawn sections at the rear. The 3.7-acre Jacobs Park surrounding the Shell functions as a free public green space on non-event days, and the venue's seasonal concert calendar—featuring artists from Jennifer Hudson to Jason Mraz—anchors a performing-arts corridor that includes the San Diego Civic Theatre ten blocks north. Multi-night festival activations deploying the full outdoor footprint—stage, lawn, and 2,700-plus-capacity perimeter grounds—with coordinated food-vendor villages, sponsor activations, and fireworks represent the venue's largest-scale productions.