Venue · Houston
Event production at Hilton Americas, the GRB-paired downtown flagship.
1,200 rooms at 1600 Lamar, sky-bridged on the sixth floor to the George R. Brown. We've badged in for corporate summits, banking conferences, and benefit galas across the Lanier Grand and the Junior Ballroom, and we know which rooms really seat the count the sales sheet prints.
What we know about the room
Lanier Grand Ballroom, Junior Ballroom, and the fourth-floor breakouts.
- Lanier Grand Ballroom. Named for Mayor Bob Lanier. Seats up to ~1,750 banquet or 2,800 theater, the largest hotel ballroom in Houston without a column. Ceiling clears flown LED for most summits; venue engineering review required at twenty-four or more panels.
- Junior Ballroom. Lower-level room, 400–700 attendees, the right answer for the tier just below the Lanier Grand. The house AV is conference-grade; for a flagship keynote we bring our own L-Acoustics and grandMA3.
- Fourth-floor breakouts. Fourth-floor breakouts, eight to ten rooms depending on combine. Shared hallway, shared HVAC return; we pre-walk RF and sound separation before the wall plans go to print.
- Load-in. Loading dock shared with the GRB sky-bridge truss. Dock windows tighten by Tuesday on convention weeks; we hold the slot at sign, ops contact runs through the Hilton banquet office, named-line.
- Power. House power in the Lanier Grand handles most summit scenic without distro. Junior Ballroom, we bring supplemental 200-amp three-phase for any flagship build.
- Rigging. All flown loads run through a venue-approved third-party rigger, IATSE Local 51 stagehands work the floor. Stamp packet routes through the Hilton engineering desk; we run the COI + rigging plot together to keep the path clean.
Events we typically produce here