Where do venue facts come from?
Each venue page draws from the venue's actual specs and operating practices, not from third-party summaries.
Venue Guides
Santa Monica and greater Los Angeles venue planning
Twenty-four venues across Santa Monica, downtown LA, Pasadena, Long Beach, Inglewood, and the Westside, each built from the venue's actual specs and operating rules.
Venue playbooks
Venues for Santa Monica and the Westside, downtown Los Angeles, and the South Bay
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Barker Hangar
Barker Hangar is a special event venue in Santa Monica. Primary Santa Monica large-format venue for product launches, experiential environments, sponsor programs, entertainment-adjacent builds, and temporary event structures.
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Santa Monica Pier
Santa Monica Pier is an outdoor activation venue in Santa Monica. High-visibility coastal venue for brand activations, sponsor events, consumer launches, hospitality programs, and public-facing experiences.
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Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows
Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows is a conference hotel in Santa Monica. One of the strongest Santa Monica hotel venues for conference blocks, executive meetings, hospitality programs, and headquarters-style event support.
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Shutters on the Beach
Shutters on the Beach is a luxury event hotel in Santa Monica. Premium beachside venue for executive dinners, smaller conferences, sponsorship hospitality, private meetings, and luxury client events.
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Hotel Casa del Mar
Hotel Casa del Mar is a luxury event hotel in Santa Monica. Strong fit for luxury hospitality programs, mid-sized conferences, receptions, executive retreats, and beachfront event support.
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Santa Monica Proper Hotel
Santa Monica Proper Hotel is a design-forward meeting hotel in Santa Monica. Useful for design-led meetings, executive sessions, smaller conferences, client hospitality, and high-end westside brand events.
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Regent Santa Monica Beach
Regent Santa Monica Beach is an oceanfront meeting hotel in Santa Monica. Current premium oceanfront venue for executive retreats, conferences, board meetings, hospitality programs, and luxury event production.
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Hyatt Centric Delfina Santa Monica
Hyatt Centric Delfina Santa Monica is a meeting hotel in Santa Monica. Practical Santa Monica hotel venue for meetings, breakouts, sponsor events, private dinners, and corporate sessions near the beach corridor.
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Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles Convention Center is a convention center campus in Los Angeles. Primary large-format convention, expo, and citywide conference anchor for the Santa Monica service radius.
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JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE
JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE is a headquarters hotel in Los Angeles. Key downtown hotel for room blocks, executive meetings, sponsor hospitality, and convention overflow linked to LACC.
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The Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles
The Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles is a conference hotel in Los Angeles. Premium downtown venue for executive conferences, hospitality-led programs, and high-touch sponsor or client events.
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Pasadena Convention Center
Pasadena Convention Center is a convention center in Pasadena. Important secondary convention venue for conference, expo, and civic-center event work within the wider Los Angeles region.
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Pasadena Civic Auditorium
Pasadena Civic Auditorium is a civic performance venue in Pasadena. Useful for theater-format general sessions, civic presentations, awards programs, and conference-adjacent entertainment.
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Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center
Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center is a convention center campus in Long Beach. Strong waterfront convention alternative for conferences, expos, tradeshows, and hospitality-led programs within the broader market.
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Pacific Design Center
Pacific Design Center is a design campus and event venue in West Hollywood. West Hollywood anchor for design-forward activations, gallery-style experiences, exhibition programs, and premium hospitality events.
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SoFi Stadium
SoFi Stadium is a stadium and private-event campus in Inglewood. Major sports-and-entertainment corridor venue for sponsor events, hospitality programs, launches, and large-format private gatherings.
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Hollywood Palladium
Hollywood Palladium is a special event venue in Hollywood. Important Hollywood option for launches, media events, sponsor programs, and entertainment-adjacent private events.
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Peacock Theater
Peacock Theater is a theater venue in Los Angeles. Strong downtown venue for theater-format sessions, awards shows, media moments, and conference-adjacent entertainment.
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Crypto.com Arena
Crypto.com Arena is an arena venue in Los Angeles. Relevant for major entertainment-adjacent events, VIP hospitality, sponsor experiences, and downtown citywide programs.
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The Broad Stage
The Broad Stage is a theater venue in Santa Monica. Theater-format venue for general sessions, keynote presentations, corporate screenings, awards programs, and conference-adjacent entertainment in Santa Monica.
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Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is a civic event venue in Santa Monica. Historic Santa Monica civic venue with large-format event potential for conferences, trade shows, awards programs, and community-scale events.
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Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel
Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel is a convention hotel in Santa Monica. Major Santa Monica beachfront convention hotel with substantial meeting space for conferences, corporate events, room blocks, and hospitality programs.
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The Victorian Santa Monica
The Victorian Santa Monica is a historic event venue in Santa Monica. Distinctive historic Santa Monica event venue for corporate receptions, product launches, sponsor dinners, and premium private gatherings.
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Santa Monica Airport Hangars
Santa Monica Airport Hangars is a distinctive event venue in Santa Monica. Iconic Santa Monica venue category for experiential activations, product launches, media events, and large-format creative event production.
Each venue page is built from the venue's own operating material rather than third-party summaries.
The cards below cover the venues a Santa Monica-based exhibit team plans into most often.
How we treat the venue map
Every venue page is built from facts the venue actually confirms; the focus list on each page is the operating constraint set the program inherits.
That changes the briefing call: we ask about the venue first, the show date second, and the production scope third.
What this changes for buyers
It keeps the conversation honest about what is buildable in the room before any vendor is named.
It also keeps labor and services language venue-specific instead of regional.
Planner questions
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Why are some venue pages thinner than others?
Venues that do not run detailed manuals get coverage that respects what is actually verifiable rather than padded marketing language.
How often is the venue research refreshed?
Venue facts are tied to dated source captures; we update the page when the venue updates its operating material.
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