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Desert Financial Arena

An arena in Tempe Junction, Arizona. It seats a stated 10,754. This page collects the address, the access and the capacity figures an organizer needs before a site visit.

Price your eventWhat fits here
Stated capacity
10,754
people, as published
Opened
1974
52 years old
From PHX
8 km (5 mi)
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
From the centre
1.6 km (1 mi)
of Tempe Junction

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

About this venue

It stands at 600 East Veterans Way, 85281, right in the centre of Tempe Junction.

Desert Financial Arena was opened in 1974 and operated by Arizona State University, which puts it at 52 years old.

A stated 10,754 puts this in arena territory: general sessions and keynotes fit, breakouts need somewhere else.

Address
600 East Veterans Way, Tempe Junction, Arizona 85281, United States
Operator
Arizona State University
Coordinates
33.4245, -111.9310
Classified as
arena

Travel to Desert Financial Arena

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) sits 8 km (5 mi) out, so a same-day return is realistic for anyone flying in for one session.

At 1.6 km (1 mi) from the city centre it is a short ride from downtown hotels rather than a walk.

Tempe Junction has 11 venues mapped in total and a population of 158,368. The Tempe Junction guide covers the airport, the local time zone and what else is bookable nearby.

What fits in this room

At 10,754 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 10,754 is festival scale, not conference scale.

  • company all-hands

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

A worked example for Desert Financial Arena

Take 950 people through the door in Desert Financial Arena — sized to the stated capacity of Desert Financial Arena. 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
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 Desert Financial Arena, and what each dot costsOne dot ≈ 10 attendees

If this one is booked

4 other venues in Tempe Junction 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.

  • Wikidata, CC0
  • 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. 9 distinct facts from the record are rendered on this page: street address, postal code, stated capacity, capacity sizing, year opened, operator, encyclopaedia entry, nearest airport with distance and more.

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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 Desert Financial Arena hold?

Open data records a stated capacity of 10,754 for Desert Financial 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 Desert Financial Arena?

600 East Veterans Way, Tempe Junction, Arizona 85281, United States. It is 1.6 km (1 mi) from the centre of Tempe Junction. The nearest major airport is Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX), about 8 km (5 mi) away.

What does an event app cost for an event at Desert Financial 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 Desert Financial 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 Desert Financial 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 Desert Financial Arena is booked?

Mountain America Stadium (64,248), Sun Devil Gym (4,609) and Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium (3,017) are in the same city and have their own pages here. 11 venues in total are mapped in Tempe Junction.

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