Monster Tents

Bigger and Better Than Ever

| Published in February 2006
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The two-night grand opening event at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa had a main tent of about 45,000 square feet, while the project also included several thousand more feet of other tents and trailers for event support.Tents today are able to house the swankiest of events, and attendees can scarcely tell they’re in a tent structure built to be removed right after they’re gone.The distinctive x-shaped Daytona Club facility at Daytona International Raceway gives club members a place for food, refreshments and entertainment before and after the race.At the hospitality village, corporate customers can sponsor frame tents where they can entertain clients and other guests.The “flag tent” at WestWorld in Scottsdale, Ariz., is 120,000 square feet on its own, but for the 2006 Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction, it was joined with several thousand more square feet of tent space to accommodate the multi-million-dollar event.Eventstar assembled this four-structure project in Miami that contained more than 143,000 square feet of event space.Tentnology overcame several challenges related to the location of the BMW job on a public beach.

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Monster tents have been around since the

About the author: Pat McCarrell

Pat McCarrell was formerly the publisher and editor of Event Solutions magazine.

Contact: editor@event-solutions.com