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Akins Ford Arena

Akins Ford Arena is an arena in Athens, Georgia. It seats a stated 8,500. Here is what the public record holds on it, and what an event67 rollout would cost in a room this size.

Price your eventWhat fits here
Stated capacity
8,500
people, as published
From ATL
104 km (65 mi)
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
From the centre
0.6 km (0.4 mi)
of Athens

Figures as published in open data, retrieved 3 September 2026. Capacities vary by layout — confirm the one you want with the venue.

What Akins Ford Arena is

It stands at 155 Hickory Street, 30601, right in the centre of Athens.

Akins Ford Arena was operated by The Classic Center.

At a stated 8,500 this takes an entire conference in one room rather than one track of it.

Address
155 Hickory Street, Athens, Georgia 30601, United States
Operator
The Classic Center
Coordinates
33.9612, -83.3710
Classified as
arena

Getting there

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) is 104 km (65 mi) away. Build a real transfer window into the arrival day and do not schedule anything important before midday.

A central address is worth more than it looks: no shuttle, no parking plan, and evening sessions that people actually stay for.

Athens has 35 venues mapped in total and a population of 128,691. The Athens guide covers the airport, the local time zone and what else is bookable nearby.

Formats this suits

At 8,500 the seating bowl is the point and the floor is the room you are actually booking. Plan the day around one big moment here and put everything that needs a smaller room in a second building.

  • award ceremonies

    A stage, a bowl of seats and a control room already in place.

  • festivals

    An audience of 8,500 is festival scale, not conference scale.

  • company all-hands

    One room, everybody in it, nobody watching on a screen in an overflow space.

Pricing a full house here

A Akins Ford Arena programme at 950 activated attendees — sized to the stated capacity of Akins Ford Arena — prices like this. Nothing is charged for the first 50, and nothing at all is charged past 1,000.

activated attendees
950activated attendees
billable, after the first 50 are free
900billable, after the first 50 are free
for the whole event, at $5 each
$4,500for the whole event, at $5 each

You are billed for people, not for the room, so this figure does not change if you move the event down the road. event67 has no floor-plan or booking product — the venue handles the space, the app handles the people in it.

1,000
activated attendees at Akins Ford Arena, and what each dot costsOne dot ≈ 10 attendees

Nearby alternatives

4 other venues in Athens have enough published detail for their own guide. Worth a shortlist before you commit.

Where these numbers come from

event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

  • OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL
  • Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
  • Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Retrieved 3 September 2026. 8 distinct facts from the record are rendered on this page: street address, postal code, stated capacity, capacity sizing, operator, official website, encyclopaedia entry, nearest airport with distance.

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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.

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Questions people actually ask

How many people does Akins Ford Arena hold?

Open data records a stated capacity of 8,500 for Akins Ford Arena. That figure is what the venue or an encyclopaedia entry published, and it is usually the maximum seated number — theatre, banquet and reception layouts in the same room can differ by half. Confirm the layout you want directly with the venue.

Where is Akins Ford Arena?

155 Hickory Street, Athens, Georgia 30601, United States. It is 0.6 km (0.4 mi) from the centre of Athens. The nearest major airport is Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), about 104 km (65 mi) away.

What does an event app cost for an event at Akins Ford Arena?

950 activated attendees means 900 billable after the free 50, so $4,500 for the event. That example is sized to the stated capacity of Akins Ford Arena. The rate 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.

Is event67 affiliated with Akins Ford Arena?

No. event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data — OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and public census sources — and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

What else is nearby if Akins Ford Arena is booked?

Sanford Stadium (92,746), S13C (Stegeman Coliseum) (11,200) and The Classic Center (2,000) are in the same city and have their own pages here. 35 venues in total are mapped in Athens.

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