Indianapolis · Indiana Convention Center

Indianapolis Trade Show Booth Rentals

Built for the most connected floor in America. Priced like a contract.

Custom exhibits for the Indiana Convention Center 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.

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Why Indianapolis punches up

A convention city that wins above its weight

Indianapolis keeps beating bigger cities for major events — Gen Con, FDIC International, the National FFA Convention, Super Bowls — because its convention infrastructure is genuinely elite: a compact downtown, a huge single-level floor, and more skywalk-connected hotel rooms than anywhere in the country. The consequence for exhibitors: these floors are full of practiced, returning exhibitors who know the building. Showing up with a booth that looks improvised is showing up under-dressed.

Ours don’t. 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 lets you commit to the calendar without underwriting its surprises.

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Designed, not templated

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.

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The builder, direct

Design, fabrication, print and wiring in our own shop — no brokered subcontracts adding margin and drift. The people who drew your booth build it.

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Verified before it ships

The complete booth stands in our shop and you approve photographs of it before anything travels — a checked build, not a hopeful one.

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One number, no surprises

Design through dismantle in a single contractual figure, with the venue’s own charges forecast beside it before you sign.

Indianapolis pricing

The numbers, in the open

Fixed and all-inclusive for custom exhibit rentals in Indianapolis. Print these, take them into your budget meeting, hold us to them — that’s what they’re published for.

Fixed pricing · Indianapolis · all-inclusive
FootprintAreaFixed priceTypical use
10×10100 sq ft$13,000 – $15,500Inline. One demo point, lead capture.
10×20200 sq ft$20,000 – $24,000Inline. Demo plus seated conversation.
20×20400 sq ft$31,000 – $35,000Island. Two or three zones, four-sided.
20×30600 sq ft$33,000 – $38,500Island. Adds a semi-private meeting space.
20×40800 sq ft$38,500 – $49,500Island. Multiple engagement zones.
20×501,000 sq ft$44,000 – $55,000Island. Long-run product wall.
30×30900 sq ft$44,000 – $55,000Island. Enclosed meeting room, theatre seating.
30×401,200 sq ft$60,500 – $71,500Island. Flagship, double-deck capable.
In the fixed price Design & build
  • Booth design in 3D, revised until approved — free of charge
  • Fabrication in our own shop
  • Graphics production, mounting and QC
  • Flooring, furniture, lighting
  • Screens, mounts and AV hardware
Logistics & service
  • Complete pre-assembly with photo approval
  • Round-trip freight to your Indianapolis venue
  • Supervised install and dismantle
  • COI, EAC and show-services paperwork
  • A single project manager throughout
Billed by the show, not by us

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.

  • Booth space
  • Electrical drops and floor distribution
  • Material handling (drayage)
  • Rigging, if you’re hanging a sign
  • Daily booth cleaning
  • Internet
The second invoice

The delta your post-show audit always finds

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 Indianapolis, both ways:

Typical exhibit house
Quoted before you signed$28,000
Install & dismantle labour overrun+ $3,300
Change orders from design rounds+ $2,300
Rush graphics and reprints+ $1,200
Site supervision, hourly+ $1,100
Actually paid$35,900
28% above the quote
Pure Exhibits
Quoted before you signed$31,000
Install & dismantle labourIncluded
Design roundsUnlimited
Graphics productionIncluded
Site supervisionIncluded
Actually paid$31,000
Exactly the quote

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.

Indiana Convention Center · 100 S Capitol Ave

One level, eleven halls, and a city attached by skywalk

The ICC runs 566,600 contiguous square feet across eleven halls on a single level — with a tunnel to Lucas Oil Stadium adding another 183,000 when the big events need it, and a sixth expansion under construction. But the number that defines exhibiting here is twelve: the hotels connected to the building by enclosed, climate-controlled skywalks — more than any convention center in the United States.

The single-level floor

11 halls · 36,300–88,900 sq ft each · combine to 566,600

One level means simple freight and simple wayfinding — halls open into each other for the big shows, and select areas carry floor loads to 500 pounds per square foot, so heavy equipment exhibits sit where they need to.

The skywalk network

12 hotels · 4,700+ rooms connected · US record

Attendees walk from bed to booth without seeing weather — which keeps show-floor traffic full and consistent even through an Indiana January. Your staff’s commute is an elevator and a corridor.

Freight that moves

49 docks · 7 drive-in ramps · stadium tunnel

Forty-nine docks and seven drive-in ramps make this one of the easier big buildings in the country to load — and compressed move-ins between back-to-back citywide events are exactly where a pre-built booth’s fast install earns its keep.

What we run for you here
  • Hall confirmation before anything books
  • Floor plan filings and venue approvals
  • Dock target times — with weather buffers in season
  • Electrical, rigging and drayage ordered at advance rates
  • COI and contractor paperwork per venue
  • Supervised install, show-day support, dismantle
Worth knowing · the expansion

The Center’s sixth expansion — roughly 143,500 additional square feet including a new signature ballroom, with a connected headquarters hotel — is in progress, which means construction logistics can touch freight routes and hall availability while it completes. One more reason we confirm the hall and the dock plan before your booth is designed, not after.

The citywide-show problem

Indy’s anchor events take over the whole city — design for throughput

Indianapolis’s marquee events are citywides: Gen Con brings tens of thousands of gamers downtown for four packed days, FDIC fills the campus with the fire service, FFA brings the largest student convention in the country. Floors like these move crowds in volume, and a booth designed for polite trickle traffic clogs, frustrates and under-converts when the aisle is a river.

So the design brief changes: entrances that admit from multiple directions, demo and interaction stations positioned so queues form inside your space instead of blocking the aisle, staff sightlines across the whole footprint, and durable finishes engineered for four days of heavy handling — verified, like everything else, when the complete booth stands in our shop before it ships.

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Flow-planned layouts

Open entries, internal queue space and clear staff sightlines — the booth processes a crowd instead of being defeated by one.

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Built for four hard days

Consumer-scale crowds handle everything. Finishes, fixtures and interactive stations get specified for durability, with spares travelling in the truck.

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Fast in, fast out

Citywide weeks compress move-in and move-out. A pre-built, photo-verified booth assembles quickly because every part already fit once — which is exactly what a tight window rewards.

Exhibiting across the Midwest? Chicago, Detroit and Columbus run on the same published fixed model — one booth design, one project manager, every city’s price known before your year starts.

In their words

What event managers say after the show

★★★★★
“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.”
Amanda Horner · Three years of Adobe Summit booths · Google Review
★★★★★
“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.”
Lexi von Schottenstein · Google Review
★★★★★
“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!”
Carlos Bautista · Three-year client · Google Review
★★★★★
“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.”
Amanda Horner · Google Review
Indianapolis show calendar

When to start, by show

Indy’s fixed points, with the planning runway each realistically needs. Around these, the ICC carries a dense calendar of national association meetings, sports events and consumer shows — name yours and we’ll pull its manual before we quote.

Verify months annually · rotating meetings not listed
ShowTypical monthVenueStart planning
FDIC International (fire service)April · verifyIndiana Convention Center5 months
Gen ConLate July – AugIndiana Convention Center5 months
PRI Show (performance racing)December · verifyIndiana Convention Center4 months

The citywides get five months, not four — throughput builds carry durability engineering that display booths don’t, hotel blocks vanish early even with 4,700 skywalk rooms, and expansion construction makes early freight planning worth real money while it lasts.

Working backwards

The calendar that matters runs in reverse

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.

−6 MONTHSScope agreed, fixed figure signed, design begins.
−4 MONTHSHall confirmed; layout submitted for approval.
−10 WEEKSArtwork frozen and moved into print.
−8 WEEKSAdvance rates on show services expire. The gate everything aims at.
−4 WEEKSFreight slot and dock time locked to the current campus plan.
−2 WEEKSComplete build stands in our shop; photo sign-off.
SHOW WEEKInstall lands in your window; you arrive to a working booth.
Rush and last-minute

A month out is workable

Late vendor collapse, a show slot that opened up, a budget approved behind schedule — with design, fabrication and print in one building, an Indianapolis 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.

  • Roughly four weeks, approval to show floor
  • Photo-verified pre-build, even on rush
  • 10×10 through 20×40 on compressed timelines
  • The published price holds — no rush premium
Questions exhibitors actually ask

Indianapolis booth rental FAQs

How much does a trade show booth rental cost in Indianapolis?
The table above is the answer: $13,000–$15,500 for a 10×10 through $60,500–$71,500 for a 30×40 — design, build, graphics, freight, crews and management in one contractual figure. The venue bills space, electrical, drayage and rigging separately to every exhibitor; we forecast those lines for your booth before you sign.
Do I see the booth design before I commit?
Yes — a photorealistic 3D design revised until you approve, at no charge. Then the finished booth stands complete in our shop and you sign off on photographs of it before it ships to Indiana. The design conversation happens before the money conversation closes, not after.
Is freight to Indianapolis included?
Round trip, inside the fixed price, never a line item — with buffer days planned for winter shows as standard. A pre-built booth travels as one consolidated shipment and assembles fast, which the ICC’s compressed citywide weeks reward.
What’s different about exhibiting at the Indiana Convention Center?
The connectivity. Twelve hotels and 4,700-plus rooms attach to the building by climate-controlled skywalks — more than any US convention center — so attendance stays full and consistent regardless of weather, and your staff’s commute is a corridor. The floor itself is single-level across eleven halls, which keeps freight and wayfinding simple.
Can you build for high-traffic consumer and fan events like Gen Con?
That’s an Indy specialty: flow-planned layouts with internal queue space, interaction stations that don’t block the aisle, staff sightlines across the footprint, and finishes engineered for four days of heavy handling — with spares in the truck.
Can you support heavy equipment or vehicle displays?
Yes — select areas of the ICC floor carry loads to 500 pounds per square foot, and we engineer mounting, power and access routes to your actual spec sheet, confirmed with the venue before the plan is written.
Can you build double-deck booths in Indianapolis?
Yes, for footprints from 20×20 up where the show’s rules allow — two-storey builds add structural drawings, venue engineering review and rigging coordination, all of which we run as part of the job.
Does the convention center expansion affect exhibitors?
It can, while construction lasts — freight routes and hall availability shift around active work. We confirm your hall and dock plan with the venue before design starts, so the construction is our scheduling problem rather than your show-week surprise.
Will a rental read as custom on the floor?
The structure is modular; every surface a visitor sees — graphics, lighting, finishes, layout — is designed for your brand. The gallery above is all rentals. You judge for yourself before it ships, from photographs of your actual booth standing in our shop.
Who’s with us during move-in and the show?
Our install supervisor runs your move-in window on the floor, and your project manager stays reachable through every show day. Pre-verified builds make move-in quiet — and when the floor produces a surprise anyway, the people who built the booth are the ones responding.
Fixed pricing · Indiana Convention Center · Full-service

Your Indianapolis booth, settled in one number.

Tell us the show and the space. Within 24 hours: design concepts, one fixed Indianapolis 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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