Top South Lake Union Gala Venues

• Spaces for 110-160 Guests
• 1 Historic Space
• 1 Park

Dakota Place Park Building is a historic brick venue set within Dakota Place Park in West Seattle, within walking distance of shops, restaurants, and activities along California Avenue. The building pairs original brick and wood floors with updated conveniences like projectors, a flat-screen TV, and surround sound, mixing vintage character with modern function. The venue's main room connects to a smaller side room and opens onto a large outdoor patio and small lawn, giving hosts room to spread a celebration between indoor and outdoor space. It accommodates up to 110 seated guests or 160 standing, making it suited to wedding receptions, community gatherings, and private parties. The space is available for rental from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., with facility tours offered on Friday mornings.

• Spaces for 150 Guests

Urban Light Studios has recently merged our event space with our downtown Seattle venue, AXIS Pioneer Square. The amazing AXIS space and our helpful staff can provide everything you need to create your dream event, be it large or small. Urban Light Studios team of talented photographers remain available to you for all your photography needs. We are no longer accepting events at our Greenwood studios. With great pride, AXIS has preserved 10,000 square feet of space within the historic 1889 Globe Building as Seattle’s most exciting event space. We provide two separate but joinable spaces allowing an event capacity of 25-400+, depending on desired layout. AXIS is centered on a series of 18-foot brick arches blending seamlessly into antique wood floors, with a sprinkle of industrial modern design. AXIS is one of the only large capacity non-hotel event spaces in downtown Seattle and is easy walking distance to numerous downtown hotels, as well as the burgeoning Pioneer Square restaurant and bar scene (right out our back door). The modular AXIS space is designed by event professionals to allow you to customize your event within our stunning confines. Our experienced event staff is the best in the business and proudly awaits the opportunity to make your next event truly extraordinary.

• Spaces for 150 Guests

• Spaces for 120 Guests

• Spaces for 220 Guests

• Spaces for 300 Guests

• Spaces for 125 Guests

• Spaces for 13-800 Guests
• 2 Restaurants
• 7 Hotels
• 7 Total Spaces

The Seattle Marriott Waterfront sits directly on Elliott Bay in downtown Seattle, at 2100 Alaskan Way across from the city's cruise ship terminals. Nautical-themed guest rooms look out over the water and surrounding mountains, and Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, and the Seattle Aquarium are all just minutes away. Nine event rooms make up more than 18,000 square feet of space, anchored by the roughly 8,000-square-foot Grand Pacific Ballroom, which holds up to 900 guests theater-style, 800 for a reception, and 600 for a seated banquet. Smaller rooms, including the Harbor Room, Seaport Room, and Executive Boardroom, support meetings and gatherings of varying size, and proximity to Bell Harbor Conference Center adds further capacity when needed. Weddings bring waterfront ceremony sites together with the hotel's ballrooms, supported by Marriott Certified Wedding Planners who help coordinate menus, table settings, and vendors. Hook & Plow, the hotel's on-site restaurant, doubles as an event space with its own water views, while on-site catering and event technology round out the planning support available for meetings and celebrations alike.

• Spaces for 420 Guests

• Spaces for 70 Guests

• Spaces for 20-200 Guests
• 3 Event Spaces
• 6 Historic Spaces
• 6 Meeting Spaces

The Phinney Neighborhood Association occupies a campus of two historic Seattle school buildings — the Blue Building, built in 1904, and the Brick Building, built in 1917 — along with the nearby Greenwood Senior Center, and because the organization's mission centers on fostering an inclusive, welcoming community, its rooms are rented out by the hour to host everything from meetings and classes to private parties and celebrations. Since both campuses are ADA-accessible with elevators and offer free on-site parking, groups of nearly any size can move easily between spaces, from small classrooms that seat up to 35 people to the Community Hall, a 2,336-square-foot room with sprung bamboo flooring, a stage with podium, and seating for up to 135 guests (150 standing), and the Greenwood Room, which accommodates up to 200 seated guests beneath its accordion dividing wall and projection screen. Because the association hosts nearly 800 community activities each year across these same rooms, renters booking an event here are stepping into buildings that already anchor daily community life in Northwest Seattle.

• Spaces for 220 Guests