Both rooms book seven days a week, 8:00 AM to midnight.

Minimum lead time is 14 days — anything sooner, call and we’ll see what we can do.

We hold 2 hours between bookings for turnover, so your access window is exactly what’s on your contract.

• Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day.

• The First Fridays of each month are booked for Plaza programming.

• Anything unavailable shows that way on the booking calendar.

Setup and teardown happen inside your booked hours, not on either side of them. If you need the room at 9 AM for a 2 PM wedding, book the all-day.

Vendors load in when your window opens. Everything you brought needs to be out by your end time.

• Balance is due 15 days before your event.

• 90+ days out — deposit refunded in full.

• 30–89 days — half the deposit refunded.

• Under 30 days — deposit is non-refundable, but we’ll move it to a new date within 12 months if you rebook within 30 days.

• Under 7 days or no-show — deposit and paid balance are non-refundable.

If something serious happens — illness, weather, a death in the family — call us. We’re people and we want to support all yall.

$100 per hour in the Hall and the Lounge, billed in full-hour increments to the card on file. If you’re still going at your end time, the site manager will tell you once, and then the clock starts.

The midnight sound cutoff is extendable for a premium, but we cannot guarantee the response from your neighbors.

• Event insurance is required for [weddings, events over [000] guests, and any event serving alcohol].

• [$1,000,000] general liability, with The People’s Plaza named as additional insured. A one-day policy typically runs [$100–$200] — [Eventsured, WedSafe, and The Event Helper] sell them online in a few minutes.

• Send the certificate at least [7 days] before your date.

• No smoking or vaping indoors.

• No open flame — candles must be fully enclosed or closely monitored.

• No pyrotechnics, or sparklers indoors.

• Nothing nailed, screwed, or stapled into walls, and no adhesive that doesn’t come off clean.

• No hanging anything heavy from the trusses.

• Occupancy is capped at 150 in the Hall and 100 in the Lounge by fire code, and we don’t bend on it.

• You can serve alcohol. It has to be poured by a TABC-certified bartender — ours or a licensed one you bring.

• No self-service, and no one under 21 behind the bar.

• Hosted (free) bars don’t require a permit. Selling drinks does, and that permit is yours to pull.

• Service stops 30 minutes before your end time.

• The Lounge bar is available to book for your bartender to work from — it does not come stocked.

Amplified sound ends at midnight, hard stop, per City of Abilene ordinance.

Doors and windows stay closed after 10 PM when there’s live music. We’d rather remind you at 11:45 than have a neighbor call the city.

Standard cleaning is included — floors and restrooms are ours.

What we ask is that you take out what you brought in: décor, food, drinks, gifts, trash and anything left in the kitchen.

Your deposit covers the $200 - $700 worth of damage, depending on your rental. Anything beyond that is itemized and photographed, and we will send it to you.

We’re not looking for reasons to keep your money. Most deposits come back in full within 10 business days.