Ratings, services and a phone number for every exhibition center in the United States.
Four linked buildings on Chicago's lakefront, minutes from downtown, make up McCormick Place, a convention campus built for trade shows, conferences, corporate events and exhibitions of any size.…
Las Vegas Convention Center is a trade show and convention venue owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. The renovated 4.6-million-square-foot complex holds about…
Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver offers 584,000 square feet of exhibit space on one level, in six exhibit halls that can be used whole or divided. Meeting…
The Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles spans over 867,000 square feet of flexible space in two buildings, West and South, joined by interior walkways. Five…
The San Diego Convention Center at 111 W Harbor Drive offers 525,701 square feet of exhibit space divisible into seven halls, each with drive-on access from the loading…
Anaheim Convention Center is a 1.8 million square foot facility in Anaheim, California, with over one million square feet of exhibit space, 99 meeting rooms and 352,000 square…
Name, address, phone, website and reviews for every venue in the 50 states and DC.
Builders, bureaus, single shows and parts of larger centers are left out; duplicates are merged.
Facilities and figures come from each venue's website and fact sheets, with the source sentence kept.
Claims and corrections are checked against the venue's own website before anything changes.
Every venue starts from public business data: name, address, phone, website and Google reviews. Rows that are not venues, such as booth builders, decorators, tourism bureaus, single shows and the loading docks or garages of a larger center, are left out; duplicate entries for one building are merged.
Each venue's own website is then read, and where a site blocks automated reading it is read in a browser, PDF fact sheets included. A feature or a figure appears on the page only when the venue itself states it, and the sentence it comes from is kept with the record.
Venues that state they host trade shows, expos, exhibitions or conventions are shown as confirmed and lead every page. Others are listed as event venues and become confirmed when the venue or a reread shows it.
Owners can claim a listing to correct details or add photos. A person checks every claim. Published by Clientment OÜ.
Knowing how to choose a trade show venue starts with your exhibitors and visitors, not with the building's brochure. Fix the market and the dates first: where your exhibitors are based, where their buyers travel from, and which weeks the show has to hold. Of the 488 trade show venues in our directory, 293 publish an event calendar, which shows the weeks already taken and any competing show on nearby dates.
Size the floor by the right number. Total building area is not exhibit space, and the figure that limits your floor plan is the largest contiguous hall. Huntington Place in Detroit states 723,000 square feet of exhibit space and 623,000 square feet of contiguous exhibit space. Most venues that publish these figures are far smaller: among the 148 that state exhibit space, the median is 80,000 square feet, and among the 173 that state a largest hall, it is 40,000.
Count the rooms around the floor. Breakouts, a general session and the main meal all need space on show days. Among the 166 venues that state a meeting room count, the median is 17. Among the 121 that publish a ballroom size, the median is 22,300 square feet.
Ask how freight gets in. Move-in and move-out depend on loading docks, drive-in doors and a marshalling yard, and they set the labor hours exhibitors pay for. 157 of our 488 venues state that they have dock or drive-in access. Others may have it without saying so, so ask.
Put people near beds and transport. In our directory, 102 venues have a connected hotel, and 87 state that hotels are within walking distance. 43 name a rail, bus or streetcar line, 336 state on-site parking, and 74 give their distance from an airport. Ask the local visitors bureau how many rooms sit within a short walk and how many the hotels will commit to your block.
Read the supplier rules before you sign. Of our 488 venues, 82 state that one caterer is exclusive or in-house, and 23 state that catering is not exclusive. Ask which other services the venue keeps exclusive, whether show labor works under union jurisdiction rules, and what exhibitors may set up themselves. Get the answers into the license agreement.
Check the paperwork and the owner. 284 venues publish floor plans or facility specifications. Use them to check ceiling heights, floor loads and column spacing before the site visit. Then find out who runs the building, whether a city, an authority or a management company, because the operator writes the contract and picks the exclusive suppliers. 64 of our venues name their operator.
Every figure here is a count from our listings or a median among the venues that state it, not a claim about every building in the country. A venue that doesn't mention something may still offer it.
Exhibition centers, convention centers and other event venues in the 50 states and Washington, DC, taken from public business data. A venue is shown as a confirmed exhibition center when its own website or business description says it hosts trade shows, expos, exhibitions or conventions; other event venues are listed further down each state page.
Exhibit space, halls, meeting rooms, ballroom size, capacity, parking, airport distance and the operator are shown only when the venue states them, on its own website, in a fact sheet it publishes, or in its business description. A figure the venue does not state is left out rather than estimated.
Use the search with the features you need, such as loading docks, a connected hotel or public transit, or open a state page to see its confirmed venues first. Each venue page lists the facilities the venue states and links to its own website.
No. A basic listing is free and stays free. Venues can claim their listing to correct details, and paid featured positions are marked as such.
Use the claim form on the venue's page or the contact page. Corrections are checked by hand against the venue's own website before the page changes.
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