Welcome to the Atlantic City Convention Center, America’s Northeast Business Address!

We have prepared this Event Planning Guide to provide you with information to help make your event a success, whether you are booking a convention, trade show, meeting, consumer show, concert, dance, sporting event or any other kind of special activity.

Our experienced staff will provide additional information and guidance throughout the planning stages, from your initial consultation to the successful culmination of your event. An Event Manager will be assigned to your event. We encourage you to communicate with your Event Manager directly and as often as necessary. Keeping the doors of communication open is a major step toward ensuring the success of your show.

We are proud you have chosen the Atlantic City Convention Center and look forward to working with you and your staff.

Please visit www.accenter.com for most up to date version of this guide.

INTRODUCTION

The Atlantic City Convention Center has 486,000 square feet of contiguous exhibit space, making it one of the largest single exhibit halls on one level from Atlanta through Boston. The exhibit hall is divisible into five (5) separate halls, ranging in size from 29,400 square feet to 199,500 square feet.

The Center’s 45 meeting rooms surround the expansive atrium lobby and total 109,100 square feet. Room dimensions range from 11,880 square feet to 672 square feet. The rooms’ amenities include soundproof panels, assisted listening systems and voice, video and data communications capabilities. MATV connection for audio and video playback from point to point makes possible an “in-house television station” for event promotion and messaging. Room 311, a sophisticated Executive Level Presentation Room, features a large screen projection system with integrated video conferencing and video tape and audio input, ideal for interactive meetings and product demonstrations from the Convention Center to any point in the world.

The facility’s ample pre-function space, more than 32,000 square feet, is well suited to registration, retail or dining needs. The building is served by 29 covered loading docks, four (4) drive-in doors, mechanical elevators and 1,000 indoor parking spaces. It is connected with the Atlantic City Rail Terminal that runs the Atlantic City Line from Philadelphia to Atlantic City. Jitneys, buses and taxis queue at the front of the building to provide service to other points within the city. A pedestrian airbridge links the Convention Center to the adjoining Sheraton Hotel. Located within a few hours drive of nearly one third of the nation’s population and 20 percent of the country’s business addresses, the convention center is easily accessible for convention, trade show and meeting attendees.

The Atlantic City Convention Center provides a full service voice, video and data network integrator, provides a unique network that allows exhibitors and visitors use of two-way communications applications, such as video conferencing, audio-multimedia capabilities, Internet access and LAN configuration, all without laying a single wire. The building is equipped with 375 miles of communications cable, 16,300 light fixtures and 1,800 miles of electrical wire and cable. Our voice, video and data communication systems provide the backbone for the most modern technology. You can access directly to the internet or we can help you set up a local area network.

There’s always something happening in Atlantic City, the city that’s “Always Turned On.” “New” is the buzzword, with new hotel rooms, a new casino, new shopping districts and plenty of restaurants and diversions to keep everyone entertained during convention down time. While meeting planners appreciate the Atlantic City Convention Center’s facilities and amenities, convention and meeting attendees enjoy the destination. Atlantic City has something for everyone to get turned on about, and several new developments make it even more exciting.

Just steps away, directly in front of the Convention Center, shoppers will love Atlantic City Outlets - The Walk, the new multi-block shopping, entertainment and dining complex with more than 60 upscale retail outlet stores, several fun theme restaurants and a variety of entertainment venues.

4The Convention Center is operated by SMG, which is the world’s largest private management company for public assembly facilities. SMG’s commitment to service for our clients is paramount. We have put together a first class service staff who will work with you from the first stages of your event planning, right through to final settlement and evaluation of your event. Our goal is not only to provide you with the most superior service available, but also to ensure that your organization will come back to the Atlantic City Convention Center. We want to make Atlantic City your group’s “new” northeast business address.

The Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority serves as the destination's principal marketing arm, stimulating economic growth through convention, business and leisure tourism development. The Authority oversees the management of the Atlantic City Convention Center and Boardwalk Hall on behalf of its parent agency, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority. For further information, visit www.atlanticcitynj.com or call (609) 348-7100.