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Rupp Arena

Everything the open record has on Rupp Arena, an arena in Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky — address, size, access and the events it carries. It seats a stated 23,500.

Price your eventWhat fits here
Stated capacity
23,500
people, as published
Opened
1976
50 years old
From LEX
9 km (5.6 mi)
Blue Grass Airport
From the centre
3.9 km (2.4 mi)
of Lexington-Fayette

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

The building

It stands at 432 West Vine Street, 40507, 3.9 km (2.4 mi) from the centre of Lexington-Fayette.

Rupp Arena was opened in 1976 and owned by Lexington–Fayette Urban County Government, which puts it at 50 years old.

A stated 23,500 puts this in arena territory: general sessions and keynotes fit, breakouts need somewhere else.

Address
432 West Vine Street, Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky 40507, United States
Owner
Lexington–Fayette Urban County Government
Official site
www.rupparena.com
Coordinates
38.0494, -84.5028
Classified as
arena

Access and arrival

Allow half an hour each way to Blue Grass Airport (LEX), 9 km (5.6 mi) away, and rather more if your first session starts during the morning peak.

3.9 km (2.4 mi) out from the middle of Lexington-Fayette — close enough to book a downtown hotel block, far enough that people will expect transport laid on after dark.

Lexington-Fayette has 28 venues mapped in total and a population of 329,437. The Lexington-Fayette guide covers the airport, the local time zone and what else is bookable nearby.

The kind of event it takes

A room this size is a plenary and nothing else. Keynotes, awards and general sessions work; the breakouts, the exhibition and the catering all have to happen somewhere else, so the venue is really the anchor of a campus rather than the whole event.

  • award ceremonies

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

  • festivals

    An audience of 23,500 is festival scale, not conference scale.

  • company all-hands

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

The app bill, at this size

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

Other rooms in Lexington-Fayette

4 other venues in Lexington-Fayette 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. 10 distinct facts from the record are rendered on this page: street address, postal code, stated capacity, capacity sizing, year opened, owner, official website, encyclopaedia entry 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 Rupp Arena hold?

Open data records a stated capacity of 23,500 for Rupp 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 Rupp Arena?

432 West Vine Street, Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky 40507, United States. It is 3.9 km (2.4 mi) from the centre of Lexington-Fayette. The nearest major airport is Blue Grass Airport (LEX), about 9 km (5.6 mi) away.

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

Stoll Field/McLean Stadium (37,000), Memorial Coliseum (6,250) and Alltech Arena (5,517) are in the same city and have their own pages here. 28 venues in total are mapped in Lexington-Fayette.

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