The Bluebird Ballroom is the largest event space on the terrace level of the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. It holds more than 7,500 attendees for a general session and 4,600 guests for a catered event. Organizers use it for conferences, association meetings, galas and large corporate gatherings, with a pre-function concourse, a rooftop terrace and a banquet kitchen attached.
Seminars and company events
The room is an 80,000-square-foot, column-free space on a new terrace level above the D and E exhibit halls. Acoustically rated operable walls divide it into configurations that include 19 meeting room subdivisions of varying sizes. A company can therefore book a fraction of the room for a plenary of a few hundred people, or open all of it for a full congress. The ceilings are 30 feet high, with rigging points every 30 feet across the room, and digital and telecommunications infrastructure runs throughout. The room also has a dressing room and a registration office.
Exhibitor move-in is supported by two freight elevators of 12 by 20 feet, each rated for 20,000 pounds.
Rooms and capacities
The Bluebird Ballroom is the main space. Next to it, a wrap-around pre-function concourse of 35,000 square feet gives views of the Rocky Mountains and is used for registration, refreshments and networking between sessions. It is reached from the center's street-level lobbies.
The Rooftop Terrace covers 20,000 square feet. It looks toward the Rocky Mountains to the north and west and the Denver skyline to the east. Accordion-style doors, 30 feet wide and 10 feet high, link it to the pre-function space for indoor and outdoor events. It can be used with the ballroom, with the concourse, or as a networking area.
For smaller sessions, the center's meeting rooms start at 800 square feet and can be combined up to 10,000 square feet. They have computer-controlled audio and lighting and wireless internet.
Catering
A banquet kitchen of more than 19,000 square feet serves the ballroom, the pre-function space and the terrace. It runs separately from the center's existing food and beverage operation and handles service styles from casual to formal. Several access points to a service corridor next to the ballroom allow service whether the room is open or divided.
History and setting
The terrace level is part of the center's expansion. The name comes from a Colorado term for a sunny, cloudless day after a night of snowfall. The center sits at 700 14th Street in downtown Denver, and the Bluebird Ballroom is on its upper level.
Getting there
The Colorado Convention Center is at 700 14th Street, Denver, CO 80202. The concourse is accessible from the street-level lobbies. The center's own pages describe getting to the center and parking, and an online request for proposal is the way to ask for dates.
