Is your group considering Midwest conference centers for your next event or gathering?

Known as a world-class university, Purdue’s West Lafayette campus offers up a world-class conference center for your meetings, conferences, seminars, ceremonies, weddings, receptions, symposiums, reunions and other gatherings and events. Offering first-class lodgings, a convenient and central Midwest location, and a long list of amenities, Purdue is a premier choice in convention centers within the region. That only makes sense, since the campus boasts its very own Tourism and Hospitality Research Center.

Just 60 miles north of Indianapolis, 120 miles southwest of Fort Wayne, 125 miles from Chicago, 94 miles from Champaign, IL and 170 miles from Cincinnati, this campus can easily gather attendees from the entire area and welcome them to your event. The nearest International Airport is in Indianapolis, but there is an airport in West Lafayette as well, the Purdue University Airport. It’s very centrally located for a regional conference.

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Another of the features that makes Purdue unique is their dedicated meeting facilities. These, conference coordination services, and overnight (hotel) lodgings are available all year, which is uncommon at a university setting. Purdue Conferences can provide a one-stop solution that includes the many resources of a Big Ten university to private organizations.

Purdue is able to welcome as many as 7500 attendees and provide overnight lodgings for them all. Up to six thousand can be accommodated in the theatre, and up to 1100 can be seated in one large classroom-style room! Some 40 meeting and event rooms are made available to The Conference Center’s guests.

As you’d imagine, audio-visual technology is state-of-the-art at Purdue. Wireless and broadband Internet, of course, AV services and technologies, videoconferencing, and even satellite uplink and downlink are available! Additionally, their Hall of Music Productions offers video, multimedia, audio, lighting, staging, and effects services. Professional theatrical carpenters, lighting experts, audio and video technicians and more can be brought together to create exactly what you want for your presentation or performance! That’s another big Purdue plus!

Catering is equally expansive, and can include basic food services, breaks, receptions, alcohol menus… or you can choose to go upscale with three other catering groups, all right there on campus! Meals can be customized. Service can be customized. You can have it your way!

It’s easy to see why Purdue’s centrally located event facilities are considered world-class. When all of these elements come together, there are few Midwest conference centers that can offer as much. Give them a call. Share your ideas with them, and allow them to make your fondest event dreams a reality!

Are you exploring Indiana event facilities for your next conference or gathering? Consider Ball State University! Ball is surrounded by a tranquil suburban sylvan campus; nestled amidst the trees, yet close to the best amenities. Idyllic as this picturesque Muncie, Indiana campus may be, that’s still just the first of many pleasant surprises in store for attendees of a conference there. The modern facilities blend nicely with venerable brick structures, technology serving rather than dominating. From the svelte auditorium, able to seat 3600, to the availability of those technologies everywhere you may want them, Ball State University is all about providing you and your guests everything you need for a successful event.

Ball State University in Muncie, IN is conveniently located 60 miles from Indianapolis. The campus is a mere 75 miles from Fort Wayne. Flying in to Indianapolis will leave just a bit over an hour’s drive until you and your guests are able to relax and enjoy the campus as you delve in to the cause.

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The largest group which can be accommodated at the Ball conference facilities is 11,500 people. During the summer months, (from mid-May through mid-August) residence lodgings are available for up to 5000. The University has 185 meeting spaces available, including the 3600-seat theatre and a 300-seat classroom style chamber. Major rock concerts excepted, Ball University is quite capable of welcoming as large a group as you’re likely to assemble.

This conference venue is fully equipped for AV presentations, you’ll not be left wanting for anything. There are a number of computer labs that can also be reserved for your group. WiFi is available throughout the campus. Ball is a state-of-the-arts university making it one of the top event venues in the state of Indiana.

Full catering services can be contracted, or one can choose ala carte. Guests can dine together, or elect to pick from the several name-brand vendors in the food courts. Of course, coffee and snack services can be provided.

Few locations in the country offer so many amenities, such a warm welcome, and such a convenient location as Ball State University, in the heart of the Midwest. Contact them today. Let them know what you need. You’ll be pleasantly surprised and very pleased that you did.

Are you looking for a clean, attractive, safe and scenic conference centers in central Indiana?  Do you want a venue where the staff prides themselves on quality service and can meet all of your needs?  The Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana, may be exactly what you’re looking for!  This Christian liberal arts university offers a smoke and alcohol free campus to host your next conference, seminar or business meeting.  Located midway between (just 41 miles from)Fort Wayne and (69 miles from) Indianapolis on I-69, this modern yet venerable 300-acre campus has kept up with the times quite neatly.  The facilities are state-of-the-art, including WiFi in all meeting rooms, full Audio Visual capabilities, a formal business center, and computer labs.

During the summer months — late May to the beginning of August — you can book your event for as few as you like, or invite thousands to attend.  The campus offers some 40 meeting rooms, with a maximum capacity of 240 in the largest of those rooms.  A combination of residence halls and hotel-like suites and apartments can provide lodgings for over 2200 overnight guests, while their Phillippe PAC offers theater seating for 3200. Their Baldwin Dining Center is a well kept and pleasant environment which stands ready to satisfy any dietary or menu needs you may request.  All-inclusive package rates are available, and recreational facilities can be open for your attendees, for health as well as team-building exercises.  You really can find everything you need at the IWU.

Marion and the surrounding countryside of Grant County are pure Midwest values.  Bicycling, horseback riding and hiking are very popular in the summer months, with everything covered in green and crops and flowers.  In many ways, the countryside has the best of both worlds, incorporating the modern conveniences with a small-town charm and hospitality that are very endearing.  People in Marion greet you warmly, as a welcome neighbor, in the Midwestern way. It’s no surprise that Wesleyan is considered on of the premiere Christian conference centers in Indiana, and the entire Midwest region.

That same sense of welcome is found at IWU.  The entire staff is genuinely glad you’ve chosen to spend time with them, and does everything in their power to let you know that you’re a valued guest.  Just let them know what you need, and they’ll be happy to accommodate you and your guests.

Finding such a tranquil and wholesome environment at which to host your gathering, event or retreat is not an easy feat for any size venue.  Finding it at a place that can host thousands makes it a very unique venue — one which you and your guests will be sure to remember for years to come!

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Is your group looking for one of the best Indiana event and party facilities for your next function? For a richly unusual environment and experience in or near South Bend, Indiana, treat yourself and your guests to Palais Royale at Morris Performing Arts Center, a restored Vaudeville House! The Palais Royal Theatre, established in 1921, was part of the Orpheum theatre chain. As such, the interiors were a marvelous festival, a riot of colors and styles, perfect for a banquet or party. J.S. Aroner, the Chicago architect who designed the Palais, had the notion of creating an environment in which all guests might feel like they were members of royalty. European stylings are expressed throughout — everything from the Baroque and Spanish Renaissance periods to Greco-Roman, and even a touch of Art Deco might be found in these finely detailed showplaces found while entering the theatre itself.

Once host to such greats as Amos and Andy, Houdini and Frank Sinatra, the Palace would eventually become the home of premier showings of films during the 40′s, 24-hundred people seated within, and as many thousands standing outside in hopes that they might catch a glimpse of the Hollywood stars. As television brought entertainment into the homes, though, the Palace’ attendance suffered, until 1959, when the board voted to demolish this amazing landmark. E.M. Morris then purchased the property, and resold it to the city for one dollar, preserving it for future generations. It is in her honor that it is now called the Morris Civic Auditorium and is available to your group as one of the finest Indiana banquet facilities, drawing groups from the Chicago area, Gary, Fort Wayne, and of course South Bend.

In 1998, with Morris’ Palais in a bad state of disrepair, the theatre began a restoration and renovation that concluded two years later, opening the Morris Performing Arts Center at the millenium, with a state-of-the-art stage house, coupled with interiors which were restored to to their original magnificence. Today, the Morris PAC is restored to its previous prominence, hosting some of the biggest names in the business. Every sort of performer, form pop, rock, country and Christian music to Broadway shows and comedians, makes a stop at the Morris. The South Bend Symphony and Southold Dance Theater are now home at the Morris as well.

This amazingly rich piece of history is available for all sorts of Indiana wedding receptions, gatherings, events, conventions and performances. As free-spirited as Vaudeville itself, the Palais Royal looks forward to welcoming you and your guests, hosting your event on their stage and treating you as visiting royalty at this truly unique banquet venue!

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