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Palestra

Palestra is an arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It seats a stated 8,722. 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
8,722
people, as published
From PHL
10 km (6.2 mi)
Philadelphia International Airport
From the centre
2.1 km (1.3 mi)
of Philadelphia

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

What the record holds

It sits in Philadelphia, 2.1 km (1.3 mi) from the centre of Philadelphia.

Palestra was owned by University of Pennsylvania.

At a stated 8,722 this takes an entire conference in one room rather than one track of it.

Owner
University of Pennsylvania
Coordinates
39.9511, -75.1887
Classified as
arena

How attendees reach it

Allow half an hour each way to Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), 10 km (6.2 mi) away, and rather more if your first session starts during the morning peak.

The centre of Philadelphia is 2.1 km (1.3 mi) away, which is a taxi rather than a walk and a reason to publish an arrival map.

Philadelphia has 132 venues mapped in total and a population of 1,573,916. The Philadelphia guide covers the airport, the local time zone and what else is bookable nearby.

Programming it

At 8,722 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 8,722 is festival scale, not conference scale.

  • company all-hands

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

What event67 costs at this capacity

A Palestra programme at 950 activated attendees — sized to the stated capacity of Palestra — 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 Palestra, and what each dot costsOne dot ≈ 10 attendees

Elsewhere in Philadelphia

4 other venues in Philadelphia 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
  • Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
  • Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Retrieved 3 September 2026. 7 distinct facts from the record are rendered on this page: stated capacity, capacity sizing, owner, official website, encyclopaedia entry, nearest airport with distance, photograph on Wikimedia Commons.

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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 Palestra hold?

Open data records a stated capacity of 8,722 for Palestra. 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.

What does an event app cost for an event at Palestra?

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 Palestra. 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 Palestra?

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 Palestra is booked?

Subaru Park (18,500), Liacouras Center (10,206) and McCarthy Stadium (7,500) are in the same city and have their own pages here. 132 venues in total are mapped in Philadelphia.

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