Meeting Facilities
Meeting Facilities It is time to plan your next meeting in the Tuscaloosa area. Your guests will enjoy state of the art meeting facilities, as well as, first class accommodations. Your meeting and convention participants will enjoy numerous attractions, museums, and fine dining.For more information, please contact Beakie Powell at the Tuscaloosa Convention & Visitors Bureau at 1-800-538-8696 or 205-391-9200.
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Bama Belle |
| Bama Theatre www.tuscarts.org This newly restored movie theater was built in 1938 and seats 1100. Contact 758-5195 |
| Belk Activity Center Bowers Park. Offers a large meeting space that can seat 150 banquet style, 100 theater style, and 200 reception style. Kitchen facilities are available. |
| Best Value Inn Tuscaloosa Offers a space that will seat up to 45. Contact 556-7950. |
| Best Western Park Plaza Conveniently located off Interstate 59 and 20, this facility offers a meeting space that can accommodate 35. |
| Bryant Conference Center www.bcc.ua.edu The Bryant Conference Center is West Alabama's premier meeting facility. Located in Tuscaloosa in the heart of the University of Alabama campus, the BCC is your flexible meeting alternative. We are a state-of-the art facility with the ability to accommodate groups from 2 to 1000. |
| Chuck's Fish www.chuck'sfish.com Upstairs area hold 100 people seated or 200 for a cocktail party |
| Coleman Coliseum University of Alabama. Home court of the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide basketball team, Coleman Coliseum seats up to 16,058 and can be converted for many events. |
| Country Inn and Suites www.countryinns.com Meeting space for up to 20 people. Call 800.456.4000 for more details. |
| Courtyard by Marriott www.marriott.com Located on Courtney Drive just off I-20/59. They offer a small meeting room for 2 - 45. They have TV/VCR, slide projector and overhead available. On site catering. Contact the hotel for room and meeting room reservations at 750.8384. |
| Cypress Inn Rice Mine Road. This charming riverside restaurant offers fine dining in addition to its banquet rooms that seat as many as 65. |
| Ferguson Center http://ferguson.ua.edu/ University of Alabama. This large complex is the Student Center for the University of Alabama. In addition to ballroom seating from 70 to 900 and nine smaller breakout rooms, it offers several restaurants and a gift shop. |
| Foster Auditorium University of Alabama. A historical landmark on the University of Alabama campus, this facility offers seating for 3,200. |
| Hotel Capstone Bryant Drive. Located on the University of Alabama campus, this fine hotel offers 7,000 square feet of attractive meeting space including ballrooms, a banquet room, a reception area, board rooms, and break-out rooms. Contact the Sales and Catering Office at 205-343-1101. For room reservations, call 205-752-3200 or 800-477-BAMA. |
| Frank Moody Music Building University of Alabama. Renowned for its acoustical integrity, this building has hosted numerous musicians of international reputation. The main auditorium seats 938. The smaller Recital Hall offers tiered seating and seats for about 120. |
| Hampton Inn www.hamptoninn.com Interstate Drive. A brand new property features a meeting room for 30 and a conference room for 12. |
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Hilton Garden Inn |
| L & N Station Historic Old Train Train Station remodeled available for special events. Located downtown at 301 Greensboro Avenue. can hold up to 300. Call 248.8386. |
| McAbee Community Center Loop Road. This facility offers a large meeting space that can accommodate 150 banquet style, 100 theater style, and 200 reception style. Kitchen facilities are available. |
| McDonald Hughes Community Center Martin Luther King Boulevard. The facility offers six community rooms that seat up to 30, a gymnasium and kitchen, and a ballroom capacity of 600. |
| Mercedes-Benz Visitor Center 11 Mercedes Dr. 205.507.2262, fax 205.507.2255. Meeting space available after hour receptions, groups up to 300. Automotive exhibit open for events. catering available. |
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Morgan Auditorium |
| Nelson B. Jones Riverbend Lodge Moundville Archaeological Park, one of America's great treasures and an international signicant National Landmark. The park includes the Jones Archaeological Museum and the Nelson B. Jones Riverbend Lodge, a spacious and comfortable facility that can be the perfect setting for your special occasion. The building itself can accommodate 100 guests at a time for a seated meal, or 150 for a standing reception. Guest can enjoy a beautiful view of the river from the adjoining patio. Moundville Archaeological Park offers a picturesque and private setting for your event. Your guests are also welcome to visit the Museum during its regular hours and to explore the Douglass Nature Trail and the rest of the park. For additional fees, park staff will design a custom themed program for your special event. For example, begin your evening at sunset, as the spetacular mounds cast long shadows across the great plaza. After enjoying hors d'oeuvres in the Museum, stroll down the boardwalk trail lit with over a hundred torches and featuring the beautiful sounds of a Creek rivercane flutist. Following dinner in the Riverbend Lodge, enjoy a lively dance performance and a bonfire atop the bluffs of the Black Warrior River. Other options are available. Please ask for details. The Nelson B. Jones Riverbend Lodge offers comfort and simple elegance in a beautiful natural setting. For complete facility and rental information, call Moundville Archaeological Park at 205-371-2572. |
| Northport Civic Center 3500 McFarland Blvd., Northport. 205.333.3006 or fax 205.333.3005. Meeting space with six meeting rooms, 6,000 sq ft exhibition hall. |
| O’Charley’s McFarland Boulevard. This restaurant offers 2 banquet rooms that seat 30 to 60. |
| Paul W. Bryant Museum The Paul W. Bryant Museum offers unique facilities for your next recption, Birthday party, rehearsal dinner, class reunion, business & civic gathering. Contact the musuem at 205-348-4668. |
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Phelps Community Center |
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Ramada Inn |
| Rowan-Johnson Building University of Alabama. This attractive, tiered theater is used by the University of Alabama dance and theater productions. Seats 250. |
| Ryan’s Steakhouse 15th Street. Offers a large space that can seat up to 100. |
| Shelton State Community College New state-of-the-art facility that offers classrooms that can seat 30-100, a recital hall, conference rooms for 12-50, and an Atrium. The atrium is available only on weekends. TV’s, VCR’s, overheads, slide screens, and podiums are all available upon request. |
| Smith Hall Smith Hall is located on the northeast corner of the University of Alabama' scentral Quadrangle. Completed in 1910, SMith Hall is an elegant example of Beaux-Arts architecture. The Grand Gallery combines the monumental scale established by its two-story Corinthian colonade with the engaging detail of a geometric motif repeated in its balustrades, doors, windows, and vaulted skylight. The beautifull propertioned room offers more than 2,300 sq. feet of meeting and convention space to accommodate groups of up to 250 for standing recptions or 120 for seated meals. Beyond the colonnade, the walls of the gallery feature exhibits from the permanent collection of the Alabama Museum of Natural History. The curving marble staircase to the Grand Gallery leads from the foyer of Smith Hall, which can accommodate a pre-function gathering or registration for your conference event. The Grand Gallery features an adjacent warming kitchen for your cater's use and offers serving tables, dining tables and chairs. Ample parking is available in front of the building. For complete facility and rental information, call the Facilities Rental Coordinator at 205-348-2542 or e-mail museum.rental@ua.edu. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |
| The L & N Station Remodeled Inside and out. Open for private events, full catering services available. Flexible set-up for up to 300. Banquets, receptions and reunions. |
| University of Alabama Music and Speech Auditorium University of Alabama. This University facility offers an auditorium that can accommodate 368. |
| VFW Post 6022 Ballroom area that seats 200. Dance floor, bandstand, bar facilities. Can also provide catering for parties. 205.553.8040 |
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