I had the chance to attend a wedding reception at Ginger Event Center, a Northwest side of Indy event center near St. Vincent Hospital that offers a fairly straightforward set-up in terms of modest-sized events. Ginger Event Center is honestly what I'd call a more "working class" event center. It's nice, though I'd hesitate to call it anything resembling luxurious. For a young couple starting out, it was a solid option for a simple yet meaningful wedding reception that offered enough room to have fun, socialize, and also honor the current climate of social distancing. The good news is that a Ginger Event Center rental is a full-day rental. These days, it seems like most venues are doing rentals for a few hours or a 1/2 day or whatever. With Ginger, you get the day. The venue is wheelchair friendly including an accessible restroom stall. As a wheelchair user, you'd be amazed how often this is not the case even in high-end event centers. They offer linen rental. You can bring in your own food, own beverages, and alcohol (though they do have bar packages and a cool bar area). They have ample free parking. Ginger provides tables and chairs and everything was set up nicely upon arrival. The owner will recommend vendors if you need help. From what my friends noted, the owner was quite helpful. Ginger also includes an audio-visual system (somewhat low-to-mid range in my estimation), a dressing room, a patio area (admittedly, not the most attractive area for a patio), a food prep area, and a bar area. Seating square footage is around 3,500 square feet. Typical capacity is around 200 with a dance floor (which was used in the event I attended). I would say Ginger is a solid option for the area. It's certainly not a destination event center. If you're seeking high-end, look elsewhere. However, this is an attractive and functional event center for small to moderate-sized weddings, special events, religious celebrations, etc. I'm not aware that they have a non-profit rate and I doubt I'd do much in the way of "performance" type events here. However, it served nicely for this very special evening and, most importantly, the newly married couple was happy to gather with family and friends. read more

If you are looking for a venue where you can bring in your own food, beverages and alcohol plus free parking this might be your place. The 4,000 sq. ft. venue rents for $1,500 and provides tables and chairs and everything else is the renters responsibility including tableware and clean up. The owner has vendors he can recommend if you do not have your own. This is an unusual concept compared to most other venues we've worked with. The dining tables were set up and dressed when we were there. There isn't a lobby so you walk directly into the room. The room is basically split into two large areas for dining tables and a versatile open floor (think dance floor or silent auction tables), a nice bar area, a very small kitchen, a nice men and women's restroom and a tiny open area in front of the restrooms which I didn't think should be congested. All unloading/loading of supplies has to go through the front door as their large storage unit sits at the back door. You can enter here but you can't pull up close to the door. Not a problem unless you're unloading trucks of silent auction items plus much more in our case. The owner was pleasant and working with several of us during my appointment. He answered all of our questions and had setup ideas trying to help me resolve the issues I saw due to space restraints. With all of our space requirements, it was determined the venue was just to small for our annual auction. In addition, we'd need a ton more volunteers for catering, bussers, servers and bartenders or increase our budget. Great concept for those who prefer to take control of the catering, bar, and manage every aspect of your event. read more

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We rented Ginger event center for a party for the St. Vincent Hospital on 12/9/2018 and one another day in December 2018. A very good facility, The managers and Himan were very responsive. All the items agreed on were there. Almost every thing worked flawless, One of their partners came personally and went over the function of AV system. We had excellent experience both times, we rented this facility. We enjoyed and recommend this center. The center rent is highly economical if you see that it comes with table, chair and linen and its for full day. We intend to reserve it for our next year holiday party. Most important plenty of parking and located right in the middle of excitement district. Easily accessible from highway. read more

I hosted an event on 12/22/18 at the Ginger Event Center. This was my experience: faulty electrical system, specifically the electrical outlets on the southwest area of the building are nonfunctional, water leaked from the pantry to the ladies bathroom with use of the kitchen sink (one of my caterers had to constantly mop the floors for both rooms to keep our guests & caterers from injury and to prevent falls), faucet in the men's restroom would not shut off, p.a. sound system repeatedly dropped out or lost volume, even after Mr. Goel, the Ginger Event Center a.v person, programmed the settings for us. With the electrical & plumbing issues, we contacted Hamin. Hamin appeared to become frustrated with our reports of the inoperable event center. When the plumbing issue presented itself, Hamin did not respond to our attempts to contact him. The ownership of the event center do not return calls when attempting to contact them via the number listed on the website. I emailed the Ginger Event Center four days after our event regarding these issues & to date I have not received a respnse. I do not recommend the Ginger Event center as a venue to host your special events due my experience with the facility and with the management. read more