Conference venues in Lawrence
What it takes to run an event in Lawrence, Massachusetts: 2 mapped venues, their stated capacities, and the travel around them. Logan International Airport is 40 km (25 mi) out.
The rooms you can book in Lawrence
Lawrence has a recorded population of 89,332 (2024), inside the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area of about 5.0 million people.
What is on the books here: 1 arena or stadium and 1 theatre or concert hall.
By type that is 1 performing-arts centre and 1 stadium.
Arenas and stadiums (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veterans Memorial Stadium | stadium | not published | 2.4 km (1.5 mi) |
Theatres and concert halls (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| J. Everett Collins Center for the Performing Arts | performing-arts centre | not published | 5.5 km (3.4 mi) |
Every venue mapped in Lawrence 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.
How people reach Lawrence
Logan International Airport (BOS) is 40 km (25 mi) away, far enough that arrival day is genuinely a travel day and a first session before noon will lose people.
Local time is New York time (America/New_York) — set every session time in the app to that zone and let attendees' phones do the conversion.
At about 12,891 residents per square mile the city is compact enough that a venue and its hotel block are usually walkable, which removes a shuttle line from your budget.
Methuen, Salem and Haverhill are close enough to draw from for a day rate, and to fall back on if Lawrence has nothing free on your dates.
- Nearest major airport
- BOS
- Logan International Airport, 40 km (25 mi)
- Local time
- UTC−4
- America/New_York, in September
- City population, 2024
- 89,332
- 5.0 million across the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area
The local constraints
No exhibition hall on record
Nothing in the Lawrence 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 Lawrence 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
89,332 people live in Lawrence itself, but about 5.0 million live in the wider Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. 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 Lawrence room
Suppose 240 attendees claim their invite and open the app at a Lawrence event a mid-sized Lawrence programme, since no Lawrence 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence 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.
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.
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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
Price a Lawrence event at 240 attendees — what is the total?
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 Lawrence hold?
No Lawrence venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page, so there is no honest number to quote. 2 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 Lawrence?
Nothing in the Lawrence 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 Methuen. For a conference without an exhibition, the 2 venues on this page are the field.
Which airport do attendees fly into for Lawrence?
Logan International Airport (BOS), about 40 km (25 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.
What happens under 50 attendees?
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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