Book a Hall in San Francisco

Hall Booking Market Notes for San Francisco

Bay Area hall rental pricing splits sharply between SF Proper (where wealth concentration drives Tier-1-like premiums) and the South Bay / East Bay (where Tier-2 pricing holds). Club rooms (100-400 cap) in San Jose, Fremont, and Sunnyvale run $2,000-$5,500 for a weekend night; the same capacity inside SF Proper (SoMa, Mission, Marina-adjacent event lofts) often runs $4,000-$7,500 with stricter bar minimums. Theatre and ballroom tier (500-1,500) — Bill Graham Civic, The Masonic, Fox Theater Oakland, Regency Ballroom, and large hotel ballrooms along the SFO/Burlingame corridor — runs $7,500-$25,000 with AV add-ons and union stagehand minimums at the older heritage rooms. Arena-scale (Chase Center, SAP Center, Oakland Arena) is quoted per show with promoter revenue splits. For South Asian community events, the most-used halls cluster in Fremont — the largest Punjabi-Sikh community west of New York — and along the 880/680 corridors: India Community Center Milpitas, Chandni Restaurant banquet wing, Fremont Hindu Temple hall, the gurdwara sangeet halls in Fremont and San Jose, plus hotel ballrooms at the Santa Clara Marriott, Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, and the Fairmont San Jose. Liquor licensing in California runs through California ABC — most Bay Area event hosts file for a Daily License Type 47 (beer/wine/spirits, full meal service required) or Type 48 (beer/wine/spirits, no food requirement), with 30-60 day lead time depending on county processing. Events inside SF City limits require an additional SF special-event permit on top of the state ABC license; this is the single most-missed step we see first-time SF hosts skip. Catch Movement holds the relationships at each major Bay Area room, can verify weekend availability within 24 hours, and walks ABC + city-permit applications through end-to-end.

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