30x50 Booth Rentals in Dallas: Costs, Venues, and What Ships
Dallas runs two parallel exhibit markets — the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center for major B2B shows, and the Dallas Market Center for permanent and seasonal showrooms in apparel, gift, and home. Design conventions vary widely depending on which market you're entering. For exhibitors at shows like Dallas Market Center events, the Texas Restaurant Association show, and IRE, a 30x50 booth at 1500 square feet is a workable footprint. Pricing in Dallas typically runs $88,600–$159,600 per show on a fully turnkey basis, higher than Las Vegas because of labor jurisdictions, freight distance from our warehouse, and venue-specific drayage tiers. In practice this means Texas right-to-work labor keeps install costs reasonable, freight from Las Vegas is short (3–4 days), and KBHCCD's clean rectangular halls cooperate with design. The split between KBHCCD and Dallas Market Center matters at the 30x50 footprint — different audiences, different design conventions.
Exhibit Rentals operates from a warehouse in Las Vegas. Transit from Las Vegas to KBHCCD runs 3–4 days. Every booth in our 30x50 inventory is fully pre-assembled and inspected at our facility before it ships to Dallas — so the install at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center is replication of an approved build, not first-time assembly on the show floor. For markets like Dallas where freight distance and labor rules add risk, the warehouse pre-build is what protects your show date.
Is a 30x50 the Right Size for Your Show?
The 30x50 booth works best for a few specific kinds of exhibitor:
- Anchor-tenant exhibitors at flagship shows like CES, RSNA, or HIMSS
- Brands hosting multi-day press, analyst, and partner programming
- Pharma, automotive, and enterprise tech with compliance-driven meeting needs
- Teams of 18–22 staff across sales, demos, hospitality, press, and operations
If you need full pavilion-scale anchor-tenant programming, 40x50 or 50x50 adds capacity. Beyond 50x50, most exhibitors move to fully custom construction with separate fabrication contracts.
Working With 1500 Square Feet
Fifteen hundred square feet supports full anchor-tenant programming. A 30x50 typically includes a 50-foot hanging banner, a 30-seat theater or product launch stage, ten to twelve demo stations across the perimeter, three to four enclosed meeting rooms (some sound-private), a full hospitality bar with seating, integrated lead infrastructure, dedicated tech and storage rooms, and optionally a second-floor lounge or meeting platform.
What doesn't fit: anchor-tenant pavilion programming at the absolute largest scale — six-plus meeting rooms with full sound privacy and a 50+ seat theater simultaneously. The footprint allows almost everything else.
Floor-Plan Choices at 30x50
A 30x50 supports double-decker construction at venues that allow it (LVCC and OCCC do; many others have height or load restrictions). Even single-story, the footprint allows real spatial design: an entry plaza with hero product, a programmed theater spine, perimeter demo and product zones, three to four enclosed meeting rooms, hospitality, and a dedicated back-of-house wing.
Double-deck construction is feasible at 30x50 in most major venues — but it adds 4 to 6 weeks of structural engineering, separate union sign-off at unionized venues, and roughly 25–35% to the all-in price. The decision usually comes down to whether you need executive lounge space above the show-floor noise.
At KBHCCD, drayage tiers and electrical timelines are reasonably documented and predictable. At 30x50, your project manager can quote drayage with confidence weeks ahead — fewer surprises than at older venues with complicated tier structures. Texas labor scope rounds out a venue that's friendlier than its size suggests.
Everything Your Quote Covers
Every quote from Exhibit Rentals is turnkey. One number on the proposal covers every line item below — there's no separate drayage invoice, no surprise electrical bill, no post-show reconciliation:
- Photorealistic 3D rendering before approval
- Full pre-build and inspection at our Las Vegas warehouse before shipping to Dallas
- Full graphics production — backlit fabric, direct-print, or tension fabric depending on design
- Round-trip freight from our Las Vegas warehouse to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center (or other Dallas venue)
- Certified installation and dismantling, fully labor-compliant for your venue
- Show services paperwork — EAC filings, Certificate of Insurance, electrical orders, drayage coordination
- One dedicated project manager from kickoff to load-out
- Hanging sign rigging coordination with venue
- AV equipment specification, sourcing, and on-site setup (monitors, sound, lighting controllers)
- On-site project lead for the duration of the show, separate from your project manager
What a 30x50 Costs in Dallas
A turnkey 30x50 trade show booth rental in Dallas typically falls between $88,600 and $159,600 per show. Where you land in that range comes down to materials, monitor and AV count, and how much custom architecture you add.
- $88,600–$124,100: Clean professional build with backlit fabric, standard counters, LED lighting. Right for anchor-tenant programs at the largest shows.
- $124,100–$141,800: Adds monitor walls, upgraded lighting, additional counters, expanded meeting and executive programming. The mid-market sweet spot.
- $141,800–$159,600: Premium materials, architectural ceiling features, double-deck construction, executive briefing wing, custom architecture.
That works out to roughly $59–$106 per square foot in Dallas. Dallas pricing is mid-range — right-to-work labor environment keeps the install and dismantle line modest, but freight from our Las Vegas warehouse still adds a few thousand dollars relative to a Vegas-local equivalent. KBHCCD drayage tiers and electrical timelines are well-documented and predictable, Dallas pricing variance is lower than at older coastal venues. Booking 8–10 weeks ahead is typically enough lead time.
Getting Into Dallas Venues
Texas is right-to-work; Dallas labor is flexible and freight pricing tends to come in lower than Atlanta or Chicago for equivalent square footage.
Texas right-to-work rules give exhibitors more direct control over labor at major venues. Our crews handle the I&D regardless — but you have meaningfully more flexibility on minor modifications, additional decorating, and self-install scope here than at coastal union venues.
Where 30x50 Booths Go Wrong
At 30x50, the usual design errors cost you more. What we see at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center shows:
- Specifying double-deck construction without confirming venue clearance and load specs upfront
- Designing without a documented runsheet — at 1,500 sqft you cannot wing the schedule
- Underbuilding sound isolation on executive briefing rooms
- Skipping the show-runner role — at this scale operations is the multiplier, not architecture
- Designing for visual impact at the expense of operational capacity — the booth has to actually work, not just look right
- Designing a KBHCCD booth using Dallas Market Center conventions (or vice versa) — the two venues serve different audiences and the design language doesn't translate across.
Rent or Buy a 30x50?
At the 30x50 footprint, the rent-versus-buy decision is rarely about cost alone — it's about how many shows you run per year and how aggressively your brand evolves. A purchased 30x50 runs $142,000–$255,000 upfront, plus $9,000–$28,500 per show in storage, refurbishment, freight, and labor. For one to three shows a year, the rental model at $88,600–$159,600 per show wins on cash flow and design flexibility. For five or more shows with stable branding, purchase can amortize lower, but at this booth size, refurbishment cycles and the cost of looking dated mid-purchase-life are real considerations. For Dallas-based exhibitors at both KBHCCD and Dallas Market Center, the calendar may include 4+ shows annually — that puts you closer to the purchase math than the standard 1–3 show range. Run the cost model on real numbers; the answer is less obvious than at single-venue cities.
Next Step
Browse our 30x50 design gallery below, or fill out the quote form for a custom 3D rendering and full price within 24 hours. Every booth includes our warehouse pre-build guarantee and a dedicated project manager who handles every step from kickoff to load-out.