Home to major annual events, the Miami Beach Convention Center (MBCC) is an award-winning meetings venue welcoming more than 600,000 event attendees and exhibitors annually. Newly reimagined following a $640 million renovation, this state-of-the-art facility hosts exceptional conferences, conventions, trade shows and meetings. Situated in world-famous South Beach, its prime location is within walking distance to the best of Miami Beach. Here’s why you should hold your next meeting at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

Rum Room's salmon bites topped with crispy onions — Treat guests to Rum Room's tapas-inspired offerings

Customizable Spaces for Every Occasion

Spanning five stories and 500,000 square feet of flexible exhibition halls, ballrooms and breakout rooms, as well as two beautifully landscaped parks, MBCC can accommodate meetings and events of every size and for every occasion. Anchored by Exhibit Hall ABCD, spanning 491,651 gross square feet, the contiguous space can be activated for exhibits, classrooms, banquets or theater-style arrangements.

The Grand Ballroom, located at the northern end of the venue, spans over 60,000 square feet, including expansive pre-function areas and an outdoor terrace. MBCC’s four junior ballrooms include the Art Deco Room at 12,194 square feet, the Ocean Drive Room at 15,858 square feet, the Lincoln Road Room at 16,020 square feet and the aptly named Sunset Vista Ballroom at 19,714 square feet. It’s drenched in natural sunlight and boasts a veranda. There’s also the Grand Lobby at 98,495 square feet on the west side of the building plus 84 breakout rooms of various sizes and configurations.

One of the newest additions to the MBCC campus is the 5,500-square-foot Rum Room restaurant and its adjacent Venu meeting space, which opened in 2023. Situated inside a restored century-old landmark cottage with an outdoor terrace overlooking the Collins Canal, it exudes old Florida charm with a tapas-inspired menu of Latin favorites. The restaurant’s dining room can host special events for 48 guests, Venu can accommodate up to 100 guests, and the outdoor terrace seats an additional 50 people. It’s a charming spot that's perfect for more-intimate affairs.

Giant aqua Bent Pool sculpture at Pride Park — Host an event at a green space like Pride Park, featuring public art

Green Initiatives: Sustainability at the Core

As part of the City of Miami Beach’s commitment to sustainability, MBCC is a LEED Silver-certified green building, a requirement for all new public projects. By incorporating environmentally friendly building features and sustainable business practices, MBCC is committed to sustainability, climate change actions and resiliency initiatives. This includes reduced-flow water fixtures, reduced electrical consumption practices, wastewater reduction, electric vehicle charging stations and critical building systems raised above flood-level requirements.

Even the glass façade and exterior architectural fins are designed to create shade while taking advantage of natural sunlight to cool and lighten the facility naturally. MBCC’s commitment to sustainability earned it the Events Industry Council’s Foundations Sustainability and Social Impact Certificate in 2023.

The MBCC campus is also home to two new public green spaces spanning nine acres, replacing a former asphalt parking lot with native landscaping and over 1,300 new trees. The six-acre Pride Park features a lawn and public plaza for special events. At the same time, the three-acre Collins Canal Park was designed for resiliency, planting mangroves and restoring the native habitat. Both parks feature public art as part of MBCC’s $10 million collection curated by the Art in Public Places program.

And over at Rum Room, the chefs have cultivated a 200-square-foot herb and vegetable garden to support a farm-to-table ethos and more-sustainable kitchen practices.

State-of-the-art Facilities

As part of its impressive renovation, MBCC has been reimagined as a modern, state-of-the-art facility. It boasts 2,100 miles of Cat 6 cabling to support all IT communications and complimentary expanded and customized WiFi services in indoor and outdoor spaces. Two loading docks offer dozens of dock spaces to expedite event load-ins and load-outs. There’s an on-site parking garage with 800 parking spots, bike racks and EV charging stations. The Center also invested millions into a newly constructed, 10,000-square-foot, full-service production kitchen with a pastry shop. Exclusively managed by Sodexo Live!, it can cater for up to 10,000 guests.

People walking past shops and outdoor cafes on Lincoln Road — Explore the nearby shops and outdoor cafes on Lincoln Road

A Prime Location in Miami Beach

Of course, one of MBCC’s greatest attributes is its prime location in the heart of South Beach. Convention-goers are close to the best of Miami Beach, including Lincoln Road, Ocean Drive, fine-dining restaurants, exciting bars, nightclubs and beautiful beaches. It’s also the perfect embarkation point for exploring everything Greater Miami & Miami Beach offers. With hundreds of nonstop domestic and international flights arriving at Miami International Airport every day and year-round sunshine, Miami is a top-tier destination for events, meetings and conventions.

Coming Soon: The New Headquarter Hotel

While Miami Beach is already home to thousands of hotel rooms conveniently positioned near MBCC, the forthcoming Grand Hyatt Miami Beach will be a game changer for event and meeting planners. Situated just south of MBCC on Convention Center Drive, the project will break ground on May 16, 2025, and is slated to open late 2027 with 800 rooms, an additional 100,000 square feet of flexible indoor-outdoor meeting space, five food and beverage outlets, two swimming pools, a gym and 320 additional parking spaces, all connected to MBCC by a climate-controlled pedestrian sky bridge.

GBAC STAR™️ Facility Accreditation

MBCC has received the Global Biorisk Advisory Council®️ (GBAC) STAR™️ Facility Accreditation, the gold standard for facilities and venues worldwide who demonstrate they have the highest standards of cleanliness and safety to provide a safe and healthy environment for all events. It is a testament to MBCC’s strong commitment to health and safety. Under the guidance of GBAC (a division of ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association), the 1.4-million-square-foot facility has proven to be in compliance with the program’s 20 core elements required for accreditation. The core elements of the performance-based accreditation program vary from risk assessment strategies to personal protective equipment and emergency preparedness and response measures.

The GBAC STAR accreditation empowers facilities and venues of all sizes and has the support of many leading industry organizations, such as the International Facility Management Association and the Association of Exhibitions and Events, as well as Freeman + Go LIVE Together (a coalition of leaders from the live events industry representing more than 4,000 companies with operations in the U.S. and 112 other countries).

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