Planning a conference in Concord
What it takes to run an event in Concord, North Carolina: 7 mapped venues, their stated capacities, and the travel around them. Charlotte Douglas International Airport is 39 km (24 mi) out.
Venues in Concord, by what they are for
Concord has a recorded population of 112,395 (2024), inside the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area of about 2.9 million people.
What is on the books here: 1 arena or stadium and 6 independent event spaces.
By type that is 6 event spaces and 1 arena.
Arenas and stadiums (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cabarrus Arena & Events Center | arena | not published | 7.6 km (4.7 mi) |
Independent event spaces (6)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ritchie Hill | event space | not published | 1.3 km (0.8 mi) |
| The Hotel Concord | event space | not published | 0.2 km (0.1 mi) |
| Albemarle Opera House | event space | not published | 35 km (22 mi) |
| Riverwood Manor | event space | not published | 10 km (6.3 mi) |
| The Loft at 14th | event space | not published | 0.2 km (0.1 mi) |
| Walter B. Hill Events Center | event space | not published | 38 km (24 mi) |
Every venue mapped in Concord 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.
Travel, time zone and arrival
Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) is 39 km (24 mi) away, far enough that arrival day is genuinely a travel day and a first session before noon will lose people.
Concord keeps New York time (America/New_York), which matters most for the remote speakers you are dialling in.
Kannapolis, Huntersville and Mooresville are close enough to draw from for a day rate, and to fall back on if Concord has nothing free on your dates.
- Nearest major airport
- CLT
- Charlotte Douglas International Airport, 39 km (24 mi)
- Local time
- UTC−4
- America/New_York, in September
- City population, 2024
- 112,395
- 2.9 million across the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area
The local constraints
No exhibition hall on record
Nothing in the Concord 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 Concord 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
112,395 people live in Concord itself, but about 2.9 million live in the wider Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Your local audience is far bigger than the city line suggests, and so is the commute your day-rate attendees will make.
Pricing this against a real Concord room
Suppose 240 attendees claim their invite and open the app at a Concord event a mid-sized Concord programme, since no Concord venue publishes a capacity in open data. Here is exactly what event67 charges, with the free 50 taken off the top.
- 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 Concord does not change this figure. Nothing is charged for an attendee who registers and never opens the app.
Matching the room to the format
No capacity is published for any Concord venue, so match the format to the room on your site visit rather than to a number on a listing.
- community meetings
Nothing in Concord publishes a capacity, so start with the format that scales down: a single room, one track, no exhibition.
- networking mixers
A mixer works in almost any room, which makes it the safe first event in a new city.
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 Concord?
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 Concord hold?
No Concord venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page, so there is no honest number to quote. 7 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 Concord?
Nothing in the Concord 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 Kannapolis. For a conference without an exhibition, the 7 venues on this page are the field.
Which airport do attendees fly into for Concord?
Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT), about 39 km (24 mi) from the city. It is the highest-traffic airport within reach in this dataset. Local time is America/New_York; publish every session in that zone and let attendees' phones convert it.
Can I run a small Concord event on event67 for nothing?
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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- Holding an event in Mooresville
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Running something in Concord?
Set the schedule, invite the room and watch who actually turns up. Free for your first 50 activated attendees, on one live event.