Conference Center at Columbus State Community College

This nice clean facility can host A LOT of events at one time or one HUGE event. It’s easy to find, but you best get a parking pass for the lot across the street or expect a ticket from CSCC parking officials.
The rooms are bright, spacious, and equipped for seminar style conferences, but I am sure they can accommodate anything you might need. There are ‘class rooms’ all around the edges of each floor and a large ‘court yard’ for gather in the center. It works to break up groups or bring them together.
I wish they had more readily available refreshment vending or water fountains. I was parched at the event I attended that provided no refreshments. So, definitely bring in your own water just in case.
All in all, a good place to host something business-​y.

I wish that this building and the conference center had been completed when I was attending Columbus State! I would have planned every event I did there to be held here. So far I’ve been there for 2 events that utilized the spaces differently, but both very well.
The 1^st event was the Columbus State President’s Dinner. In this case, the ballroom was set up with tables for a buffet dinner and keynote speaker. There were about 100 people there and there was plenty of room for everyone with room to spare for networking, chatting, and of course walking over to the buffet table for food!
This last time it was for the Downtown Digital Arts Festival and the ballroom was being used as a gallery. This is a perfect place for something like this as it is surrounded on 3 sides by glass so there is a ton of natural sunlight shining in. For this event, they also used a smaller room next door for screening film entries, a room down the hall set up with computers for the animation displays, and a foyer for appetizers complete with small tables and chairs.
This is a very customizable space that can be suited to meet almost any need and has a stunning panoramic view of the city from the balcony off of the ballroom. There’s also wifi so don’t forget your laptop and their approved caterers have never failed to impress me. Yes, its frozen and then reheated food, but they’ve done some pretty yummy things with it!

I’ve attended — and helped organize — several events in the conference center of CSCC, from evening Tweetups to two-​day conferences. The spacious main event room, the row of medium-​sized additional rooms, and the two spacious hallway areas make this an ideal space for event with 100 – 300 people. (The main room can hold up 250 – 350, depending on how it’s set up. The breakout rooms can probably each fit 50.)
Standard pricing is based on 1 – 4 hours or 4 – 8 hours ranges, and NPO’s get a discount. Parking can be tricky, depending on the time of event and what’s going on AT CSCC, but it hasn’t been a huge issue in most of my experience.