It will now cost more money to hold an event at the Trotter Convention Center.
Columbus councilmen approved a request from Trotter Center Director Frank Goodman to raise rental fees.
Events where tickets are sold will cost $1,200 for the first day and $600 for each day after the first. Rental fees for private functions such as weddings will now cost $1,000 per day and half that amount for each succeeding day.
The increases also apply to the lower level meeting room, which can be split into three separate meeting spaces. For one of those spaces, it now costs $300 per day. The rental fee for two spaces is $500 and $250 for each succeeding day. For the whole lower level, those amounts are $700 and $350, respectively. The rental fee for the downstairs kitchen is now $100 a day.
The new fees do not apply to events already booked in 2015.
The last rental fee increase at the Trotter Center was approved in 2007.
Goodman said with a $2.3 million renovation in progress on the facility, now was the right time to request the new fees. They will cover a professional furnished by the city to run the building’s new sound and lighting systems.
The renovation includes lighting, mill work, new flooring and tiling, lighting improvements, a new front wall and a new air-conditioning unit and roofing.
Nathan Gregory covers city and county government for The Dispatch.
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