Our Review of The
This is the layout of the Los Angeles Convention Center. The South Hall has 347,000 square feet of exhibit space, accessible by six freight doors and 36 freight docks. It also has 16,614 square feet of registration space.
Just underneath the South Hall is Kentia Hall, with 162,000 square feet of exhibit space. It has 9 freight docks.
The West hall is the original Convention Center. It has 9 docks available and 4 freight doors. The West Hall has 210,685 square feet of exhibit space. It also has 9,230 square feet of registration space available to use.
- The South Hall is a piece of cake to work. Plenty of docks and good outdoor unloading areas. Unless you are producing a full-facility show, you should not have to worry about getting a marshaling yard. There is enough truck parking on Convention Center Drive to hold aprox 50 trucks. Just be prepared to have people at the main truck entrance, at the bottom of the truck ramp, and possibly at the top of the truck ramp to allow for good traffic behavior. If not, the city will come down on you and hold things up until the traffic is cleaned up.
- As for the West Hall (the old hall), there are 12 usable docks at 2 different dock areas. These docks are usually used by the contractors for their usage and for empties so there are limited docks available for unloading direct trucks shipments. This should be taken into consideration when signing in truck drivers to load or unload.
- There are no docks available for both Petree Hall or the Concourse. If docks are needed, use portable docks or be prepared to travel some distance with forklift loads back and forth between the West Hall docks and the Concourse or Petree Hall.
- Kentia Hall is just a converted parking garage with pillars running throughout the "Hall". It does have 8 usable docks and a nice big freight elevator that runs between Kentia Hall and the South Hall which is directly on top of Kentia Hall.
- Outside empty crate storage is allowed outside all halls as long as they keep within the designated "empty storage" areas. Trailers are allowed to be kept at the dock but any trailers parked near Petree or Concourse Halls will have to be pulled back to a suitable staging are once the show is opening.
- Getting the Freight doors opened up at LACC can be a tricky process, especially around the Security shift change. The first thing to know is that Convention Center security will NOT open any freight doors until the HOUSE security company orders it. So you must plan ahead and make sure that Show Management has given security the correct time in the morning to open the doors. The shift occurs at aprox 7:00am every morning. It can delay the door openings for up to an hour. That's right. It seems that communication between shifts is not high on the priority list for LACC Security.
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