New Orleans runs one of the busiest convention calendars in the country out of a single dominant venue, and that concentration changes how you should plan. The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center is over a million square feet of contiguous exhibit space across twelve halls — it is one of the largest single-floor convention facilities in the United States — and it hosts the overwhelming majority of trade shows and conventions that come to the city.
That means two things for an exhibitor. First, once you know your hall and booth number, everything about the build is knowable in advance, because we install in that building constantly. Second, when a large show is in town, the entire city's exhibit labor, freight capacity and rental inventory are committed at once. Booking early is not a sales line here — it is arithmetic.
We are a New Orleans exhibit company. We design, print, fabricate, deliver, install and dismantle here, and we store exhibits here between shows. If your show is at the Morial Convention Center, the Superdome, the Smoothie King Center or one of the hotel exhibition spaces downtown, we have been in that room.
We maintain 1,518 individual rental exhibit designs covering every standard footprint and several irregular ones.
10x10 inline — the standard entry booth. One open side, eight-foot back wall, three-foot side rails. A 10x10 lives or dies on its back wall and its lighting, and we build them with backlit fabric, an illuminated header, and a counter with lockable storage so your cases are not visible.
10x20 and 10x30 inline — enough back wall to run a genuine left-to-right narrative, room for a demo station that does not block your entrance, and space for a semi-private corner. The 10x20 is where most companies stop looking provisional.
20x20 island — open on all four sides, permitted a hanging sign, visible from across the hall. This is the largest single upgrade available to an exhibitor and it is not about square footage. An island has no back; every side is a front, and it has to be composed as a four-sided object.
20x30, 20x40 and 30x30 — room for a private meeting space with a door, a presentation area with seating, a product wall a visitor can walk along, and separate staff circulation so your team is not squeezing past customers.
30x40, 40x40 and larger, through 60x60 — anchor positions. Engineered structures, hanging elements, interior architecture, sub-rooms, demo theatres and real storage. These are temporary buildings more than they are booths.
Double-deck exhibits — two levels. Open demonstration below, private meeting and hospitality above. Double-decks require engineered stamped drawings, occupancy calculations, code-compliant stairs and railings, and organizer approval submitted well in advance. Not every show permits them. We confirm eligibility for your specific show before you commit and we handle the entire approval package.
LED video wall exhibits — available in every footprint from a 10x10 accent wall to a full-height backdrop, including curved and wrapped configurations. Pixel pitch is specified against actual viewing distance so the wall reads sharp from where your visitor stands rather than from where the spec sheet imagined them.
Every structure is modular. The same components are re-skinned with different graphics and re-sized to a different footprint for your next show, which is why renting here does not mean taking whatever is left in a warehouse.
Every rental is quoted turnkey, and we mean the whole job:
Separately itemized on every quote are the services the show charges for and we do not control: electrical, rigging labor, material handling and drayage, booth cleaning and internet. We read your exhibitor kit, identify exactly what your booth needs, order against the advance-rate deadline, and reconcile at actual cost.
Almost every show you will exhibit at in New Orleans is here, so it is worth knowing how the building behaves.
The Morial runs as a long, contiguous ground-level floor across twelve halls, which is unusual and it is an advantage — freight moves in at grade without elevators, and install runs faster than at multi-level venues. Ceiling heights support standard island structures and hanging signs comfortably, and rigging is available with organizer approval and engineered drawings.
Standard show rules apply to booth height: inline booths capped at eight feet on the back wall with three-foot side rails, islands permitted substantially higher with the exact ceiling limit set by the show. Fire clearance, aisle-line compliance and covered-ceiling rules are enforced, and we submit drawings for approval as part of every rental.
Freight runs on assigned target move-in times. Missing your window means your crates wait while your install compresses, so we plan the target time into the project schedule from day one rather than the week before the show.
The general contractor differs by show — Freeman, GES and Shepard all work the building, each with their own forms, deadlines and advance rates. We work with all of them.
Caesars Superdome hosts large-scale events and conventions with exhibition components. Access and rigging differ substantially from the Morial and need to be confirmed per event.
Smoothie King Center hosts mid-size events and conferences with exhibit floors. Load-in is arena-style rather than hall-style, which constrains crate size and install sequencing.
Downtown hotel exhibition spaces — the Hyatt Regency, Sheraton, Marriott, Hilton Riverside and the Higgins — host association meetings and smaller exhibitions. These are finished ballroom environments rather than exhibit halls, which raises the finish standard and limits rigging.
Pontchartrain Convention & Civic Center in Kenner serves regional shows and events.
Tell us the venue and we will tell you what it permits before you design anything.
We do both, and the honest answer depends on your show calendar.
Renting makes sense when you exhibit in different cities at different footprints, when your messaging changes between shows, when you do not want to carry storage and refurbishment, or when you want current-generation LED without owning panels that will look dated in two years.
Buying makes sense when you exhibit the same footprint repeatedly with stable branding and a predictable annual calendar. Over three years, ownership is usually cheaper in that scenario, and we build for purchase as well — then store it, maintain it and refresh the graphics between shows.
There is also a middle path most exhibitors never hear about: own the structural components you use every single time and rent the pieces that change — LED, furniture, specialty fixtures. It lowers the annual cost without giving up consistency.
If you want to work through it properly, our rent-versus-buy breakdown lays out the actual cost drivers over a three-year horizon.
Design, graphics printing, fabrication, installation and storage all happen in house. That is not a marketing phrase — it is the difference between a problem being solved and a problem being explained.
When those five functions live at five different companies, every handoff is a place for something to go wrong, and when it does, each vendor has a reasonable explanation involving one of the others while you stand on a show floor at midnight with a booth missing a panel.
We own the printers, so a corrected graphic is reprinted and installed the same day. We own the shop, so a component that does not fit gets fixed by us. We employ the install crew, so when the job runs long they stay. There is nobody to point at.
If you exhibit more than once a year, storing your exhibit here is cheaper and far simpler than rebuilding it. We store in a climate-controlled New Orleans facility, racked and inventoried, with condition inspection on return from every show, refurbishment and repair as needed, and graphic replacement between shows so the structure stays while the message changes.
The practical effect is that your next show becomes a phone call.
Call (504) 208-2737 or request a quote. Tell us the show name, the venue and your booth number. You will get a 3D rendering with your branding applied, a fixed turnkey price, and a separate itemized estimate of the show services your booth will require.
Call (504) 208-2737 for New Orleans exhibit rentals.