Built for Austin’s convention-center-in-exile era. Priced like a contract.
Custom exhibits for Austin’s scattered show floors — SXSW venues, the Palmer Events Center, downtown hotel ballrooms — on one fixed, contractual number — design through dismantle, signed before we start and unchanged when it ends. The venue’s own charges get estimated against your booth before you commit, so the total isn’t a discovery.
Filters the booths below — each shows its Austin price.
Everything below came out of our own shop — designed, fabricated, printed and wired by one team, then stood up complete and photographed for approval before it travelled. What reaches your Austin dock — convention hall or hotel ballroom — is a checked build, ready for a fast install on whatever floor your show landed on this year.
Teramind
1,800 sq ft island with interactive demo zones.
Radware
Hands-on learning stations inside a four-sided island.
Appdome
Security demo theatre built for high-volume technical traffic.
SpyCloud
Interactive stations arranged for one-to-one conversation.
Fulcrum GT
Full-height LED as the structure, not an add-on to it.
WillowTree
Meeting-led layout with enclosed rooms off an open front.
IMAX
Large-format island built around a screening experience.
Microsoft
Modular island scaled across a multi-show programme.
Also built for Genea, Dunnhumby, Chili Piper, LHH, Calm and Spekit.
The Austin Convention Center closed in spring 2025 for a ground-up rebuild that roughly doubles its rentable space — and until the new building opens, Austin’s calendar runs in exile. SXSW takes over the whole city each March. Association and corporate shows have moved to the Palmer Events Center and the big downtown hotel floors — the JW Marriott, the Fairmont, Hilton Austin. The audience never left: this is still one of the highest-energy tech and startup markets in the country. What changed is the floor itself — and booths designed for a 30-foot convention hall don’t translate to a 16-foot ballroom without someone re-engineering them on purpose.
That’s the brief we build to: custom 3D design around your brand, fabrication in our own shop, the complete booth standing for photo approval before it ships — and one fixed contractual number that files on a PO exactly as quoted.
A 3D concept built for your brand and footprint — unlimited revision rounds inside the fixed price, so the design conversation ends when you’re satisfied.
Design, fabrication, print and wiring in our own shop — no brokered subcontracts adding margin and drift. The people who drew your booth build it.
The complete booth stands in our shop and you approve photographs of it before anything travels — a checked build, not a hopeful one.
Design through dismantle in a single contractual figure, with the venue’s own charges forecast beside it before you sign.
Fixed and all-inclusive for custom exhibit rentals in Austin. Print these, take them into your budget meeting, hold us to them — that’s what they’re published for.
| Footprint | Area | Fixed price | Typical use |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10×10 | 100 sq ft | $13,000 – $15,500 | Inline. One demo point, lead capture. |
| 10×20 | 200 sq ft | $20,000 – $24,000 | Inline. Demo plus seated conversation. |
| 20×20 | 400 sq ft | $31,000 – $35,000 | Island. Two or three zones, four-sided. |
| 20×30 | 600 sq ft | $33,000 – $38,500 | Island. Adds a semi-private meeting space. |
| 20×40 | 800 sq ft | $38,500 – $49,500 | Island. Multiple engagement zones. |
| 20×50 | 1,000 sq ft | $44,000 – $55,000 | Island. Long-run product wall. |
| 30×30 | 900 sq ft | $44,000 – $55,000 | Island. Enclosed meeting room, theatre seating. |
| 30×40 | 1,200 sq ft | $60,500 – $71,500 | Island. Flagship, double-deck capable. |
The venue invoices these directly to every exhibitor, whichever exhibit company builds the booth. We estimate each line against your actual booth before you commit, then file inside the advance-rate window.
Run the numbers on most exhibit projects after the show and the same delta appears: final spend versus approved quote, up a quarter or more. The venue didn’t cause it — venue charges are tariffed and predictable. The exhibit house did, in hourly labour that “ran over,” design help re-billed as change orders, and reprints priced like emergencies. One 20×20 island in Austin, both ways:
On the venue’s invoice in both scenarios: space, electrical, drayage, rigging, cleaning, internet — the show’s charges, tariffed and identical whoever builds for you. A vendor who “includes” them has buried them. We forecast each line for your booth up front and place the orders before the advance-rate window closes.
We quote higher and cost less. Audit us on it — the final invoice matching the quote is the deliverable.
Live inventory below, each card carrying its Austin price. Choose a footprint or budget in the finder above and the selection re-sorts right here — every structure finishable as a fully custom exhibit.
12 booths · Austin, Texas pricing
Exhibiting in Austin right now means reading each show’s venue sheet carefully. The Palmer Events Center gives you roughly 70,000 square feet of proper exhibit hall with real docks. Hotel ballrooms give you chandelier-height ceilings, rigging that’s often prohibited outright, freight through a hotel dock on a scheduled window, and carpet you don’t drill into. We design for the room your show actually booked — ground-supported structures instead of hung signs, lighter modular builds that move through service corridors, freight timed to hotel dock appointments — and the same booth re-scales when the rebuilt center opens with roughly double the space.
The workhorse hall of the rebuild years — a proper exhibit floor with dock access, but a fraction of a convention center’s size, so space sells out early and layouts reward compact, high-performing footprints.
Chandelier ceilings, no rigging, scheduled hotel docks — a different engineering problem that punishes convention-hall designs and rewards ground-supported, modular builds sized to service corridors.
The new convention center changes Austin’s math again — and booths we design now are scaled in both directions on purpose, so the build you rent this year grows into the new hall instead of being replaced by it.
Every March the whole city becomes the venue — official floors, brand houses, rooftop activations. Booth components engineered to redeploy as activation sets stretch one build across both worlds, and permits, hotel dock windows and venue confirmations all land in the same December–January crunch. Plan from October and that crunch is routine; plan from January and it’s triage.
Austin audiences don’t stay on the floor — during SXSW the real conversations happen in activations, rooftop suites and Rainey Street houses as much as in any hall. We build for that reality: booths whose components double as activation sets, meeting corners designed for scheduled conversations rather than drive-by traffic, and structures that break down small enough to move between a ballroom date and a brand house in the same week.
The playbook: a booth built to book the evening — semi-private space and a managed calendar that turns aisle interest into same-day dinner reservations; hospitality in the booth that starts the relationship the river will finish; and staff briefed to use the city as the closing room it is. The venue’s geography is a sales asset; most booths simply never cash it.
A calendar-managed reception point and semi-private seating turn floor conversations into same-day reservations — the shortest path in American exhibiting from aisle to closing dinner.
Conference-heavy, government-adjacent audiences respond to education and demos over spectacle — the booth earns the dinner with what it teaches by day.
Three hundred events a year means practiced crews, tight schedules and fast turnarounds — where a pre-built, photo-verified booth’s quick install and clean dismantle fit right in.
Exhibiting across Texas? Houston, Dallas and Austin run on the same published fixed model — one booth design travels the triangle, with every city’s price known before your year starts.
“They never just build the booth and disappear — I always know I have someone on call and ready to jump in when the unexpected inevitably happens. That level of responsiveness makes a huge difference in high-pressure event environments.”
“I’ve worked with Pure Exhibits for almost a year now, and have had such a great experience! They are our go-to for trade shows, and create memorable booths that represent our brand well. The team is incredibly responsive and reliable.”
“It’s always a pleasure to work with Utsav. The process is simple, straightforward, and high quality. I have worked with them for 3 years now and will continue!”
“Their team is incredibly flexible throughout the design process and truly collaborative in bringing ideas to life. I highly recommend Pure Exhibits to anyone looking for a reliable, thoughtful, and experienced exhibit partner.”
Austin’s calendar runs venue-by-venue while the convention center rebuild is underway — SXSW takes the city every March, and the association and corporate meetings that once filled the center now rotate through the Palmer Events Center and downtown hotel floors. Name your show and we’ll pull its manual — and confirm which building it’s actually in this year — before we quote.
| Show | Typical month | Venue | Start planning |
|---|---|---|---|
| SXSW — official floors & brand activations | March · annual | City-wide · March | 4–5 months |
| Association & corporate meetings | Seasonal · verify | Palmer Events Center | 5 months |
| Tech & startup conferences | Seasonal · verify | Downtown hotel floors | 4 months |
SXSW rewards the extra two months — venue confirmations, activation permits and hotel dock windows all stack up in the same December–January crunch, so a booth planned from October has its logistics settled while competitors are still hunting for space.
Show dates don’t create cost pressure — order deadlines do, and the decisive one closes roughly eight weeks out, when advance rates on electrical, rigging and drayage expire. Everything else in the plan exists to arrive at that gate comfortably.
Late vendor collapse, a show slot that opened up, a budget approved behind schedule — with design, fabrication and print in one building, a Austin booth can go approval-to-floor in about four weeks. Same quality gate (built and photographed before shipping), same printed price. Compressed timelines are our scheduling problem, not your surcharge.
Tell us the show and the space. Within 24 hours: design concepts, one fixed Austin figure, and the venue’s own charges forecast beside it — a budget your whole chain of approval can read at a glance.
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