Planning a conference in Centennial
This guide covers 8 mapped venues in Centennial, Colorado, what each one holds, and how attendees get to them. Meadows Banquet & Event Center is the best-documented room in the set.
The rooms you can book in Centennial
Centennial has a recorded population of 108,853 (2024), inside the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO area of about 3.1 million people.
Across the city the dataset records 3 dedicated conference and function spaces, 1 theatre or concert hall and 4 independent event spaces.
By type that is 4 event spaces, 2 conference centres, 1 banquet hall and 1 concert hall.
Conference and function space (3)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadows Banquet & Event Center | banquet hall | not published | 2.7 km (1.7 mi) |
| Arapahoe-Centennial Meeting & Conference Center | conference centre | not published | 3.5 km (2.2 mi) |
| Centennial Conference Center | conference centre | not published | 3.8 km (2.4 mi) |
Theatres and concert halls (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| RockStar Music Hall & Event Center | concert hall | not published | 6.5 km (4 mi) |
Independent event spaces (4)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre | event space | not published | 2.8 km (1.7 mi) |
| Centennial Event Center | event space | not published | 1.9 km (1.2 mi) |
| Events @ Piney Creek | event space | not published | 6.8 km (4.2 mi) |
| The Franciscan Event Center | event space | not published | 3.6 km (2.2 mi) |
Every venue mapped in Centennial appears above. The ones with enough published detail to be worth reading have their own guide and are linked; the rest are named here, which is honest about what the record holds without giving each of them a page made of three facts.
Flights, time and distance
Denver International Airport (DEN) is 36 km (22 mi) away, far enough that arrival day is genuinely a travel day and a first session before noon will lose people.
Centennial keeps Denver time (America/Denver), which matters most for the remote speakers you are dialling in.
Highlands Ranch, Parker and Aurora are close enough to draw from for a day rate, and to fall back on if Centennial has nothing free on your dates.
- Nearest major airport
- DEN
- Denver International Airport, 36 km (22 mi)
- Local time
- UTC−6
- America/Denver, in September
- City population, 2024
- 108,853
- 3.1 million across the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO area
Before you hold a date
No exhibition hall on record
Nothing in the Centennial dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre, so a trade floor needs either an arena floor, a fairground, or a nearby city. Check the arena listings above before you promise exhibitors a booth plan.
No published capacities
Not one Centennial venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page. Every room on the list will quote you a number directly, but you cannot compare them before you call, so build a fortnight of venue calls into the plan.
The city is smaller than the market
108,853 people live in Centennial itself, but about 3.1 million live in the wider Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO. Your local audience is far bigger than the city line suggests, and so is the commute your day-rate attendees will make.
A worked example, sized to Centennial
A Centennial programme at 240 activated attendees — a mid-sized Centennial programme, since no Centennial venue publishes a capacity in open data — prices like this. Nothing is charged for the first 50, and nothing at all is charged past 1,000.
- activated attendees
- 240activated attendees
- billable, after the first 50 are free
- 190billable, after the first 50 are free
- for the whole event, at $5 each
- $950for the whole event, at $5 each
You are billed for people, not for the venue, so the room you choose in Centennial does not change this figure. Nothing is charged for an attendee who registers and never opens the app.
Which kind of event this suits
No capacity is published for any Centennial venue, so match the format to the room on your site visit rather than to a number on a listing.
- award ceremonies
1 fixed-seat house gives you a stage, lighting and sightlines without building any of it.
- training days and workshops
3 purpose-built function spaces are the easiest kind of room to run a workshop in — the power and the load-in already assume it.
- leadership retreats
Smaller rooms suit a retreat better than a hall does, and Centennial has them.
Where this data comes from
- GeoNames, CC BY 4.0
- US Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 estimates
- Wikidata, CC0
- Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
- US population figures are US Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
- Retrieved 3 September 2026. event67 has no commercial relationship with any venue listed.
Last updated
What it costs
- Free up to 50
- activated attendees, on one live event
- $5
- per activated attendee beyond 50
- $4,750
- the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000
Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
Questions people actually ask
What does an event app cost for a 240-person event in Centennial?
240 activated attendees means 190 billable after the free 50, so $950 for the event. The price is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
How big an event can Centennial hold?
No Centennial venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page, so there is no honest number to quote. 8 venues are mapped here and each will quote a capacity directly. Ask for the seated, theatre and reception figures separately — they differ by a factor of two or more in the same room.
Can you run a trade show in Centennial?
Nothing in the Centennial dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre. A trade floor here means an arena floor, a fairground or a venue in a nearby city such as Highlands Ranch. For a conference without an exhibition, the 8 venues on this page are the field.
Which airport do attendees fly into for Centennial?
Denver International Airport (DEN), about 36 km (22 mi) from the city. It is the highest-traffic airport within reach in this dataset. Local time is America/Denver; publish every session in that zone and let attendees' phones convert it.
Is there a free tier for a small Centennial event?
One live event with up to 50 activated attendees costs nothing. Beyond that it is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
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Running something in Centennial?
Set the schedule, invite the room and watch who actually turns up. Free for your first 50 activated attendees, on one live event.