One fixed number. One project manager. A booth that clears the America’s Center checklist before the truck reaches 7th Street.
Four interstates — I-64, I-70, I-44 and I-55 — meet within about a mile of America’s Center, which is why national shows freight into St. Louis so willingly. The building still runs on its own arithmetic: trucks stage at the 7th Street marshalling yard with certified weight tickets, drayage is billed by the hundredweight, and Missouri union crews work the floor above a 300-square-foot self-set line. Pure Exhibits builds St. Louis trade show booth rentals around that arithmetic from the first sketch — designed, fabricated, fully pre-staged and photo-approved before anything ships, priced in one contractual figure — so the only thing your team manages on show week is the show.
More than 500 exhibiting teams hold us to the standard we bring to St. Louis unchanged: the signed number survives to closeout, the booth matches its photo proof, and a person answers the phone during move-in at America’s Center.
“They never just build the booth and disappear — I always know I have someone on call when the unexpected happens.”
Amanda Horner · Three years of Adobe Summit booths · 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
On the St. Louis calendar — Saint Louis Auto Show · Builders Home & Garden Show · TransWorld’s HAA Show · St. Louis RV Show · CannaCon Midwest · GalaxyCon St. Louis
Every build below shipped at the number it was quoted and matched the photographs its owner approved — inlines through 30×30 islands, cybersecurity to consumer goods. Your St. Louis rental comes out of this same inventory, from this same shop. Click any project for a closer look.
Curious what sat behind a build — the brief, the budget, and how the show went? Teramind, Appdome, Afresh, WillowTree, Yuna, LHH and Genea each tell it in the case study hub.
A booth that works in St. Louis is finished before it crosses the state line. Pure Exhibits fabricates every exhibit in-house, stands it up completely in the shop, photographs it for your sign-off, then crates it so the I&D crew downtown re-assembles a known quantity in the fewest possible labor hours — the line where convention budgets usually bleed. Fortune 500 teams and first-time exhibitors run the same playbook with us across the Auto Show, the Home & Garden Show, TransWorld’s HAA Show, and 200+ events a year nationwide, all on one contractual number.
“The prospect of managing all of the details with big trade shows is daunting to say the least. But the Pure Exhibits team made it easy… If you are looking for a real partner that you can count on, then I recommend you talk with Utsav and his team.”
Footprint sets most of what you will spend at America’s Center — the hundredweight bill, the labor hours, the electrical order, even whether your own staff may legally set the booth. The venue draws the self-set line at 300 square feet: at or under it, your full-time employees may install without power tools; above it, the trades do the assembly and the design has to earn its hours. Pick a size below and the fixed price comes with it.
“Since being with SpyCloud, Pure Exhibits has exceeded our expectations at every turn. They truly understand our brand and needs, from starting with a 10×20 booth to maximizing our presence with a 20×30 including a meeting space and four demo stations! Pure Exhibits has been with us every step of the way. They have helped us create a commanding presence on any expo floor that authentically represents who we are. It is a thrill to work with them and see what’s next on our journey. I highly recommend them.”
Torn between two sizes? Send the show and your space number — we’ll tell you which one that floor plan actually rewards.
A quote should be a commitment, not an estimate. The ranges below are what St. Louis exhibitors actually pay us — design through dismantle, one line on the purchase order, and no reconciliation invoice afterward. Take them into the budget meeting and hold us to them.
| Footprint | Area | Fixed price | Typical use |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10×10 | 100 sq ft | $13,000 – $15,500 | Inline. First show downtown, one clear message. |
| 10×20 | 200 sq ft | $20,000 – $24,000 | Inline. Two demos and room to seat a buyer. |
| 20×20 | 400 sq ft | $31,000 – $35,000 | Island. Traffic from every direction. |
| 20×30 | 600 sq ft | $33,000 – $38,500 | Island. Adds an enclosed meeting room. |
| 20×40 | 800 sq ft | $38,500 – $49,500 | Island. Demo, briefing, and hospitality zones. |
| 20×50 | 1,000 sq ft | $44,000 – $55,000 | Island. Showroom length for a full product line. |
| 30×30 | 900 sq ft | $44,000 – $55,000 | Island. Center structure with theater seating. |
| 30×40 | 1,200 sq ft | $60,500 – $71,500 | Island. Flagship footprint, double-deck capable. |
Four costs at America’s Center go to the show or venue no matter who builds the booth: the exhibit space itself, electrical service — an Edlen exclusive in this building — drayage, billed per hundredweight (CWT) by the show’s contractor against certified scale tickets from the 7th Street yard, and rigging for anything hung. We can’t make those lines ours, so we do the next best thing: estimate each one against your booth’s real crated weight and power plan, before you commit to anything.
Payment terms: 50% to open design and production, the balance 30 days ahead of the show — the full cost picture in writing from the first quote.
Ask an exhibitor here where the budget actually went and the booth is rarely the answer. It’s the paper that followed: a drayage true-up because nobody weighed the crates before 7th Street, labor hours added when the exhibit arrived as loose parts, a reprint, a filing fee, a “minor” change order. Here is the same 20×20 island in St. Louis, quoted two different ways:
Certainty costs less than surprises. One contractual figure from design through dismantle, the show-billed items forecast beside it — and a closeout your finance team approves without a single question.
Six contiguous halls plus a Dome floor, 32 covered docks, a marshalling yard half a mile up 7th Street, union trades on the floor, and a 300-square-foot self-set threshold — America’s Center rewards exhibitors who plan for its system and punishes the ones who discover it on move-in morning. We plan for it.
The fixed price runs design through dismantle, and the show-billed lines — space, electrical, drayage, rigging — are forecast beside it from your real crate weights. The budget is finished on day one instead of reassembled after closeout.
Missouri voters kept the state a union-labor market in 2018, and America’s Center works with union trades — with a practical carve-out: exhibitors may set booths of 300 square feet or less with their own full-time staff and no power tools. We design to whichever side of that line your footprint sits on.
Carriers stage at 1100 N. 7th Street, present certified weight tickets, and unload in arrival order. We book the truck, weigh before the yard, and time the check-in so your crates are not the ones waiting.
Your booth is assembled completely in our shop — every wall, light, and bracket — photographed for your approval, then crated. What comes off the truck on Washington Avenue has already worked once.
Halls 1–5 run 340,000 contiguous square feet; the new Hall 4X adds 72,000 more with natural light; open the Dome floor and the run reaches 574,000. Which hall your space number lands in changes the freight path and the install plan.
The final invoice reconciles to the PO to the dollar. No overtime line you never approved, no drayage true-up weeks later — the project ends the day the show does.
Quotes within 24 hours — sooner if your St. Louis show date is close.
Renders sell booths; video proves them. Walk finished builds from a 10×10 up to 40×40 flagship scale and judge the finish for yourself — the same standard every Pure Exhibits rental ships with, whether it’s bound for the Auto Show, TransWorld’s HAA Show, or CannaCon Midwest.
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Booths are tools. Before we draw anything for a St. Louis floor we ask what the space has to produce — leads scanned, demos run, meetings held — and design backward from those numbers, not forward from a render.
Scaled to read across an 80,000 sq ft hall under 40-foot ceilings
Openings set for how the aisles actually feed your space, not how the render looks
Your core message legible before an attendee is close enough to badge-scan
Demo stations that hold a small crowd without choking the aisle behind them
Height and lighting spent where the hall demands it — and nowhere else
Layouts built from your lead and meeting targets, not a template library
Meeting space placed where it will actually get used between sessions
Modular bones that re-skin for next season’s show instead of starting over
Space confirmed late, a vendor dropped out, the launch moved up — it happens every season. Our rush track builds, stages, and ships a complete exhibit in 24 business days, at the same fixed price. ✓ Rush rentals, 24 business days
Quotes that grow between signature and closeout are the industry’s oldest habit. Ours can’t grow — the contract is the price, and the show-billed lines are forecast next to it before you commit. ✓ One contractual number
A designer, a fabricator, a freight broker, a labor company, and a graphics shop — each pointing at the others when something slips. Here it’s one team and one phone number from sketch to teardown. ✓ Single-team delivery
CWT drayage, certified weight tickets, a 7th Street marshalling yard, a 300 sq ft self-set line — the system catches first-timers every show. We’ve designed for it long enough that it’s built into the booth itself. ✓ America’s Center experts
Somebody promised a client, a CMO, or a board what this booth would cost and when it would be standing — usually the event manager. In a building where a missed yard window or an unweighed crate can break both promises before lunch, our whole process exists to keep your word for you — and to hand you the paper trail that proves it, stage by stage.
One conversation about your show, space number, and goals. You leave knowing what your budget actually buys at America’s Center — including the show-billed lines nobody else mentions until the invoices arrive.
3D concepts within 3–5 business days, drawn around your actual placement and sightlines — then revised until they’re right. Revisions are part of the process, not a change order.
The booth goes up completely in our shop — walls, lighting, graphics, screens — and you approve photographs of the real thing. Nothing is crated for Missouri until you’ve seen it standing.
Final QC, then we run the logistics: carrier scheduling on the interstate approaches, certified weight tickets before the yard, the 7th Street check-in on your target date, and the venue paperwork. Your team never talks to a dispatcher.
Because the booth has already stood once, the crew downtown is re-assembling a known quantity — every panel labeled, every connection proven. Fewer billed hours, no improvising on the floor.
A screen misbehaves, a graphic needs swapping, the client wants a change before day two — one call, and it’s handled while the hall is still open.
Teardown, crating, and outbound freight are ours. Your team walks out when the show closes; the closeout invoice that follows matches the contract you signed.
Nearly all of St. Louis’s show floor sits under one roof at 701 Convention Plaza — but that roof covers two very different buildings, and the metro’s second exhibit floor is thirty minutes west in St. Charles. If your program travels, the same fixed-price model runs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, and New Orleans.
The workhorse floor where the Auto Show, the Home & Garden Show, and TransWorld’s HAA Show spread out. Crate weights, dock assignments, and target dates all get planned against these halls’ realities.
The newest hall, added under the AC Next Gen program and fed by an enlarged, fully enclosed dock line. Daylight changes how finish quality reads — we light and detail booths for it deliberately.
The attached stadium becomes exhibit space for the consumer giants. Dock-to-booth freight runs get long here, so crate design and labeled packing are worth real money.
Corporate general sessions, tabletop expos, and conference-plus-expo events upstairs. Light builds, fast turnarounds, and crating that respects service corridors instead of open docks.
The metro’s suburban floor across the Missouri River. Different building, different dock rhythm, same fixed price and the same photo-approved prebuild.
Hotel programs run on freight elevators and overnight windows. We right-size the build for the room and keep the delivery model identical.
Consumer season opens the year — cars in late January, RVs days later, homes in March — then the trade calendar takes over: the haunted-attraction industry’s national buying week in March, tattoo artists in May, cannabis in August, pop culture in October. Pure Exhibits designs for the specific floor you’re walking into, not a generic exhibit hall.
A show date is really a chain of earlier dates — design sign-off, prebuild, yard check-in. Read this table backwards and the real deadline behind each anchor show appears. If yours isn’t here, we’ll pull its exhibitor manual before we quote.
| Show | When | Venue | Start planning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Louis Auto Show | January | America’s Center + Dome | 5 months |
| St. Louis RV Vacation & Travel Show | Late January | America’s Center | 5 months |
| Builders St. Louis Home & Garden Show | March | America’s Center + Dome | 4 months |
| TransWorld’s Halloween & Attractions Show | March | America’s Center | 4 months |
| CannaCon Midwest | August | America’s Center | 3 months |
| GalaxyCon St. Louis | October | America’s Center | 4 months |
The January shows get five months, not four — the Auto Show and the RV Show open within days of each other in late January, which parks fabrication, approvals, and freight squarely across the holiday shutdowns. Carriers thin out, nobody answers a phone the week your crates need to move, and the marshalling yard keeps its own schedule. Plan the runway and it’s routine; miss it and the calendar negotiates for you. Already compressed? The rush track below exists for exactly that.
Vendor fell through before the Auto Show? Space came through late for TransWorld week? Tell us the date — we’ll tell you what’s buildable.
For most St. Louis exhibitors the math favors renting, and the local reasons stack quickly: a booth you own still pays America’s Center drayage, labor above the 300 sq ft self-set line, and show services every year it exhibits — plus warehousing and refurbishment between shows. A rental resets the design each cycle and drops the ownership overhead entirely.
| Factor | Renting | Owning |
|---|---|---|
| Cash outlay | One predictable fee per show | Large capital purchase upfront |
| Between shows | Nothing to store or insure | Warehousing billed year-round |
| Wear and repairs | Our problem, not yours | Refurbishment on your budget |
| Design refresh | New look every cycle | Rebuild costs to change anything |
| Scaling | 10×10 this year, island next | Locked to what you bought |
| Show logistics | Bundled into the rental | Sourced separately each time |
Ownership pencils out only for teams running one large footprint at many shows a year — and even those teams usually rent in markets their program visits once or twice.
Our published fixed pricing runs $13,000–$15,500 for a 10×10 up to $60,500–$71,500 for a 30×40 — and the figure covers design, fabrication, graphics, freight, I&D coordination, and project management, contractually. Separately, every exhibitor is billed by the show for space, electrical — an Edlen exclusive at America’s Center — drayage, and rigging; we forecast those lines against your specific booth before you sign, so the complete cost of exhibiting is visible up front.
Material handling is billed per hundredweight (CWT) by each show’s contractor, and carriers check into the marshalling yard at 1100 N. 7th Street with certified scale tickets — the weight on the paperwork is the weight you pay for. Drayage is a show charge, not ours. What we do is estimate it line by line in your quote from your booth’s actual crated weight; because our booths are engineered light and crated tight, the number usually lands under what exhibitors budget for it.
Half on signing, which opens design and production; the balance 30 days before the show. Nothing follows — no true-ups, no post-show reconciliation invoice. To see how the fixed model works size by size, browse the priced rental exhibits.
Yes — and the St. Louis calendar makes bundling natural: the Auto Show and the RV Show land in late January, then the Home & Garden Show and TransWorld week follow in March. Booking a program locks pricing across the run, holds your design and graphics between shows, and puts one PM across the sequence instead of three separate projects.
Both, deliberately. We fabricate every exhibit ourselves — structures, graphics, finishes — then deliver it on a rental model. You get build-shop quality without buying, storing, or maintaining anything, and every booth is stood up and tested in our shop before it’s crated for St. Louis.
Three things, honestly. The price is contractual — the figure you sign is the figure you pay, with America’s Center’s show-billed costs forecast beside it rather than discovered later. The booth is proven before it ships — fully assembled in our shop and photo-approved by you, so the crew downtown re-assembles a known quantity in fewer billed hours. And one project manager owns everything from sketch to closeout, including the yard timing and paperwork grind that eats event managers’ weeks.
The structure, custom graphics, flooring, lighting, furniture, and AV where the design calls for it — plus freight to the venue, I&D coordination, show-services filings, and a dedicated PM. One quote, one line on your budget. The rental packages page breaks the scope down in detail.
You pick or commission a design; we build it, stand it up in the shop, and send you photographs to approve. Then we crate it, weigh it, stage it through the 7th Street marshalling yard on its target date, manage the install, stay on call through the show, and handle dismantle and return freight. Your involvement peaks at the design stage — by show week, your only job is working the booth.
One, kickoff to closeout — the person who priced your booth is the person who answers the phone during move-in downtown. No handoffs between a sales rep, a producer, and a site lead. If you’d like to start there, talk to a project manager before you commit to anything.
Yes — your PM is reachable through move-in, show days, and dismantle. A flickering screen or a last-minute graphic swap gets handled while the hall is open, not logged in a ticket system for next week.
Yes — drayage, electrical, labor, and rigging each get their own line in the quote, calculated from your booth’s actual crated weight and power plan. Those items remain billed by the show, but the estimates are accurate enough that your finance team can budget real numbers, not placeholders.
The working set is — counters, tables, seating, and lockable storage sized to the design. If your brand standard calls for specific premium pieces, we source and include them in the same fixed number rather than tacking on a rental line later.
Three systems, none difficult once you know them. Labor: Missouri is a union-labor state and the venue’s trades handle large-booth assembly, but exhibitors may set booths of 300 square feet or less with their own full-time employees, no power tools, and hand-carried freight through designated doors. The yard: carriers stage at 1100 N. 7th Street with certified weight tickets and unload in arrival order. And CWT drayage: you pay by weight to move crates from dock to booth. All three are manageable when the booth was designed for them — which is exactly how ours are designed. First show downtown? Start with a planning call — it costs nothing and saves plenty.
Yes. We coordinate the I&D crew and — more usefully — hand them a booth engineered to install fast: pre-assembled once in our shop, labeled, and documented. For inline booths under the 300 sq ft threshold we’ll tell you honestly when a self-set with your own full-time staff is the smarter play; electrical connections stay with Edlen, the venue’s exclusive provider, either way.
Your booth ships as one coordinated freight move — either to the show’s advance warehouse or direct on its target date. St. Louis is one of the easier freight approaches in the country: I-70, I-64, I-44, and I-55 all reach downtown, and the marshalling yard at 1100 N. 7th Street sits minutes from the docks. The show’s contractor carries freight from dock to space — that last leg is drayage, billed per hundredweight. We book the carrier, secure the certified weight tickets before the yard, manage the timing, and estimate the drayage from real crate weights in your quote.
St. Charles Convention Center across the Missouri River, Union Station and hotel ballrooms downtown, and corporate venues across the metro. The model doesn’t change with the address: fixed price, photo-approved prebuild, coordinated install — only the freight plan changes, because nothing else in town runs a marshalling yard.
Yes — the late-January consumer block and the March TransWorld week are regular entries on our calendar, along with the Home & Garden Show, CannaCon Midwest, and GalaxyCon. Fixed-price rentals run from 10×10 inlines to islands, every one pre-staged and yard-ready. January runways disappear early because the build crosses the holidays — book by September if you can, or if you’re already late, the 24-business-day rush track exists for exactly this.
That’s the job. We start from your brand guidelines and show objectives, design in 3D until you approve, and then — unusually — you approve again from photographs of the physically built booth before it ships. Two sign-offs, zero surprises on the floor.
Everything visible and most of what isn’t: layout, signage, screen count and placement, counters, lighting temperature and intensity, demo stations. The gallery on this page is all rentals — none of them look like they share a kit, because the kit is only the skeleton.
Yes — iteration is budgeted into the process, and most teams take two or three revision rounds before final sign-off. What we don’t do is convert your changes into surprise change-order fees; the fixed price already assumes the design will evolve.
All of them, from a 10×10 inline to 30×40+ islands and peninsulas — each configured to its space type’s rules (line-of-sight limits for inlines, height and hanging-sign allowances for islands) and prebuilt in-house before shipping to Missouri.
The structure is the least memorable part of any booth — what people remember is what happened inside it. A demo they touched, a meeting that felt private on a loud floor, a message they could read from thirty feet. We spend the design budget on those moments, which is why our rentals get mistaken for owned customs.
Eight to twelve weeks covers most St. Louis shows comfortably — design, approvals, graphics, prebuild, and the venue paperwork all fit. The exception is late January: for the Auto Show and the RV Show, start about five months out, because the build calendar crosses the holidays and freight capacity thins exactly when you need it.
Behind schedule already? The rush track compresses the whole build to 24 business days without touching the price or skipping the photo proof.
If you can tell it’s a rental from the aisle, we’ve failed. The underlying structure is modular, but everything an attendee actually perceives — graphics, layout, lighting, finishes, furniture — is produced for your brand and your show. Book a design consultation and judge the difference from the portfolio yourself.
Send the show and your space number. Within 24 hours you’ll have design directions, one contractual figure, and the show-billed charges forecast beside it — the whole cost of exhibiting in St. Louis on a single page anyone can approve.
