Where to gather in Waterford
What it takes to run an event in Waterford, Michigan: 5 mapped venues, their stated capacities, and the travel around them. Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport is 54 km (34 mi) out.
Waterford venue landscape
Waterford has a recorded population of 75,737, in Michigan.
What is on the books here: 1 theatre or concert hall and 4 independent event spaces.
By type that is 4 event spaces and 1 theatre.
Theatres and concert halls (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Knob Music Theatre | theatre | not published | 6.6 km (4.1 mi) |
Independent event spaces (4)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Knob Mansion | event space | not published | 6.6 km (4.1 mi) |
| Sharks Club | event space | not published | 3.9 km (2.4 mi) |
| Springfield Township Civic Center | event space | not published | 13 km (8.1 mi) |
| Zap Zone | event space | not published | 4 km (2.5 mi) |
Every venue mapped in Waterford 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.
Getting attendees to Waterford
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) is 54 km (34 mi) away, far enough that arrival day is genuinely a travel day and a first session before noon will lose people.
The city runs on Detroit time (America/Detroit). Schedules published in one zone and read in another are the most common cause of a half-empty first session.
Pontiac, West Bloomfield Township and Rochester Hills are close enough to draw from for a day rate, and to fall back on if Waterford has nothing free on your dates.
- Nearest major airport
- DTW
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, 54 km (34 mi)
- Local time
- UTC−4
- America/Detroit, in September
- City population
- 75,737
- GeoNames (cities15000)
The local constraints
No exhibition hall on record
Nothing in the Waterford 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 Waterford 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.
Arrival is a half-day
54 km (34 mi) from DTW means most attendees lose a morning to travel. Open registration the evening before and put nothing you care about in the first slot.
Pricing this against a real Waterford room
Take 240 people through the door in Waterford — a mid-sized Waterford programme, since no Waterford venue publishes a capacity in open data. The first 50 activated attendees are free on every event, so only the rest are billed, and the total stops moving at 1,000 however many more turn up.
- 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 Waterford 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 Waterford 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
- 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
What does an event app cost for a 240-person event in Waterford?
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 Waterford hold?
No Waterford venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page, so there is no honest number to quote. 5 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 Waterford?
Nothing in the Waterford 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 Pontiac. For a conference without an exhibition, the 5 venues on this page are the field.
Which airport do attendees fly into for Waterford?
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW), about 54 km (34 mi) from the city. It is the highest-traffic airport within reach in this dataset. Local time is America/Detroit; 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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Running something in Waterford?
Set the schedule, invite the room and watch who actually turns up. Free for your first 50 activated attendees, on one live event.