I can't believe I never heard of this place. I can't believe this place has one person following it…read moreon Yelp. And I cannot wait to see it the next time I'm in Seattle. It sounds amazing I hear that if you fly over it the building is shaped like Jimi Hendrix...

Yes, technically it is part of the Experience Music Project, but this is an actual approximately…read more100 seat theatre within the EMP that is available for private events. So if you've got an Indie film to premiere, or are looking to treat your friends to a Rocky Horror Picture Show party/reunion, this would be a great place to have it. You could pre-function at the Revolution bar right above it, or utilize other parts of the EMP as well

This is a pretty awesome and huge venue! I've been to a few events here over the years, and it's…read morealways been a memorable time. In fact, one of the earlier Yelp Elite events took place here, and it was so much fun! The large space makes it flexible and allows different organizations to use every part of the venue. I recently was here for the Seattle Works SWANK Gala and it was amazing! Lots of room for the silent auction and the main room for the dinner and live auction was fantastic. They even had a Twitter wall which was super cool.

I've been to so many events at Fremont Studios over the years and only just realized I've never…read moreshared a review about them. Here's the deal. They're the cream of the crop when it comes to events in Seattle. They do big-budget, high quality, over the top, awesome events. They do smaller events too but this is your go-to space if you want a customized party for over 1000 people. There's a stage, there's state of the art lighting, white walls with projectors to project movies, images, etc. They even have different sets and packages so you can do soft seating, tables, classrooms, or whatever you could dream up. I've come for large scale cocktail parties, I've come for networking events, and I've come for themed holiday bashes and dance parties. They can truly do it all. The staff appears to be well organized and there's always, always staff easy to find for load-in or questions of any kind. Whenever I see an event promoted and spot that it's being hosted at Fremont Studios, I know it's going to be good.

As a musician, I play a lot of weddings and people often ask me about affordable event and…read moregathering spaces. The newly renovated Dakota Place Park Building in West Seattle is a great new venue run by the City of Seatte which can accommodate up to 200 people. It's former City Light substation, located within walking distance of California Junction, a popular neighborhood with lots of shops and restaurants. The building retains some of the old brick architecture, but has lots of modern amenities such as a full A/V system with video projector and built in sound system, a catering kitchen with icemaker, and comfortable tables and chairs. The best part of this venue is the adjoining outdoor patio, which would be great spillover for guests during the summer when weather is nice. Venue rental includes one staff member, who will stay throughout the event and help coordiante cleanup. Visit the city website for more information! http://www.seattle.gov/parks/Reservations/DakotaPlaceSpecialsFlier.pdf

We reserved the Dakota Place Park building for our Dad's 90th birthday party. It worked perfectly…read morefor our group of 100. They have a great setup with tables that roll into place and then lock. We only set up tables for 50 and left 1/3 of the room for people to stand and mill about looking at memorabilia. They have an AV system that we used to show a video of the birthday boy's life. The AV on the east wall didn't work, but the AV on the north wall did. They have screens for both. The venue is open every Saturday morning to go and look and plan for your event. We recommend using that time in the weeks leading up to the event. We rented the building from 1-6 and our event was 2-5. That left very little time to get all the tables and chairs set up, catering to arrive, set up the AV, etc. If you plan well, as we did, you can do it, but we had to develop a good plan on the Saturday morning strategy sessions. Also, be sure to test your video a few times on the Saturday mornings. That's how we found out, on the day of the event, that the HDMI doesn't work on the east wall. Some thoughts: bring your own hangers if guests will be arriving with coats, they only have about 10, but they do have a nice portable coat rack. We put signs on the steps off Dakota directing people to use the west entrance, which is handicapped accessible. It worked well to only use one door. Parking is problematic, as there are only about 3 spots, but no one complained. The Parks Department staff are very helpful, but they're not AV experts, and we didn't expect them to be. You have to figure out the video system mostly on your own. We chose not to use the wireless microphone (provided) because we were sure everyone could hear us. However, once we got 100 people in there absorbing sound and making noise, we wish we had. All in all, it was super. Hopefully they get the HDMI fixed on the east wall. We had to change our seating plan at the last minute once we found out it was not working (the video played, but kept pausing inexplicably). (Oh, and you have to call and bug them after 10 days to get your deposit back...they don't seem to have any sort of system in place to process the refund, but after a couple of calls we got ours back no problem). Great venue. Great staff. Plan Ahead!

Always great entertainment and the venue is beautiful with the graffiti art and historic ambience.read more

I visited Kings Hall for the Penumbra Beer festival a couple weeks ago. I wasn't familiar with the…read morespace before, but it was set up very nicely for the festival. The way that the outdoor space was arranged for the food trucks was very effective. My only complaint is that the restroom situation was rather dicey. There were two long lines winding up the stairs, one for the gents and one for the ladies. Kind of crowded and unpleasant to wait in line that way. Overall this is a good event space, and I hope to visit again sometime.

We need more spaces like this in Seattle! I performed a solo piano program of all contemporary…read moremusic last Summer. The guys and gals who run this are passionate about under-represented music. The space is small, has a grand piano (Yamaha if I remember correctly) and a dedicated audience. Though it's not for everyone, it's one of the only places in Seattle that offers experimental, progressive, non-main-stream music and musicians. If you're bored on Capitol Hill and feel like seeing and hearing music performed that most of the country is bound to never hear, check out what's going on at 1412!

Cool space for live entertainment or art showing.read more

Well, I can't really comment on its true purpose, but as a building, it's pretty nice. I stopped by…read morefor a holiday bazaar, and it was a bit busy. This would be a good place to hold meetings or have a small party.

Attended the Flock Fiber Festival at the convention center last weekend. We stayed within walking…read moredistance of the convention center and arrived a half hour after the festival began to a very long line to get in. The line was well organized with staff directing people where to go and it went fast. The fiber festival consisted of vendor booths with yarn for sale, a small stage where various people gave craft-related talks, two food vendors, and classes. The space was more than adequate for the offerings. I enjoyed the festival and appreciated the cleanliness of the convention center.

I attended a very large conference here in January 2025 with around 6000 fellow attendees and was…read moreimpressed with how well the convention center handled this size of a group! The center is massive at 988,422 square feet of meeting/exhibit space so I never felt like I was drowning in a crowd and had plenty of space to move and breathe lol! And the vibes were sort retro modern style - hard to explain but it was interesting and had a nice feel to it. The center has two buildings - Arch & Summit. Arch is 6 stories tall with a main public space/lobby that has a four-story atrium and even has its own restaurants, shops, and public artwork! There are plenty of escalators and elevators, and lots of tall windows with excellent views of downtown and the Puget sound all around you. The Summit building is across the street and seemed quite a bit smaller with only like 2-3 floors, much smaller meeting spaces, and no main atrium/lobby. But it was still adequate and very clean and well maintained. All the rooms and halls were well numbered and there are many maps throughout the building so I never had any issues finding the events and lectures I wanted to attend. Plenty of staff were available to help with all the tech and AV equipment and there were rarely any issues during the 4 days of talks and events I attended - which is quite impressive given the size of the conference and the amount of events/lectures they had scheduled. The entire convention center was surprisingly very clean - and there are ample bathrooms in strategic locations on all floors - and all very well attended and maintained also. The center itself is in an excellent location surrounded by nice hotels and so many food options - convenient for exploring some of the main tourist spots in Seattle too as it sits on Pike Street and is a nice walk down to Seattle's famous Pike Market. I'd recommend this venue to any group - but especially for large scale conferences - and would happily attend events here in the future.

The convention center is close to so many different venues. I liked it for the show we attended…read more The one thing I did not understand was the restaurants not being open in heavy traffic times of our show. We always had to go off premise for breakfast and lunch.

The newer Summit building part of the Seattle convention center is great! It's been open a few…read moreyears now and a much needed upgrade to the original site, or, what used to be called just the Washington Convention Center is now the Arch Building.It is interesting that they are two totally seperate buildings that are two blocks away. A confusing aspect which often leads people befuddled. It does feel quite open despite being located in the downtown area and there always feels like there is plenty of natural light. The escalators rising up from level 1 to the 5th floor top level has a nice adjacent seating area which flows down to level three with a nice view of the interior of the center and big glass windows with views of Pine street. I have been to multiple conventions here (ECCC, PAX West, etc.) and I am always impressed with this place!