The Indiana Green Expo runs February 8 to 10, 2027 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. February 8 is a Monday. February 10 is a Wednesday. The group holds two midweek nights and hands no weekend night to the house. The venue posts a forecast of 2,000 attendees.
The position this column takes
The expo supports a firm group rate across its two trade-show nights. It also supports a Wednesday premium, because two other published groups price the same day. A rate above February's own city average needs three documents. They are the 2027 hall assignment, the 2027 block rate and the expo's own 2027 scale line. No publisher carries any of the three.
The published window
The venue dates the expo February 8 to 10, 2027. The organiser dates the same window on its Future and Past Expos page. The Indiana Nursery and Landscape Association dates its 2027 expo to February 7 to 10 on its events page, a day earlier than both.
The organiser's exhibitor page for the 2026 cycle places that trade show in Hall D at the Indiana Convention Center. It states 150-plus exhibitors and over 2,000 visitors. Trade show hours for that cycle ran 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Tuesday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Wednesday. That is 11.5 hours of floor time.
The venue's forecast series
The venue keeps a page for each past edition, and each page carries its own forecast line. Five editions carry a figure. The 2020 edition carries 2,200 with Exhibit Hall B and the Wabash Ballroom. The 2024 edition carries 1,500 with Exhibit Halls F and G. The 2025 and 2026 editions each carry 2,000. The 2027 edition carries 2,000.
Two of the five pages name a hall. The 2020 page carries Exhibit Hall B and the Wabash Ballroom. The 2024 page carries Exhibit Halls F and G. The 2025, 2026 and 2027 pages carry no Location field, and the organiser's 2027 line names no hall either.
The Hall F question
This column's brief cites an expanded Hall F exhibit floor. The one published Hall F assignment for this expo sits on the 2024 edition page, beside a 1,500 forecast.
The venue's facility guide sizes both halls. Hall D measures 46,800 square feet with 205 booths. Hall F measures 52,000 square feet with 248 booths. Hall F is 5,200 square feet larger, or 1.1111 times Hall D's floor.
No publisher ties a floor size to an attendance result for this expo. The published record is a hall line per edition and a forecast line per edition. The 2027 hall line is unpublished.
What the host hotel publishes
The organiser names the Westin Indianapolis as its headquarter hotel, at 241 W Washington St. The block runs through Passkey. The organiser's hotel page carries the 2026 cut-off of January 23, 2026. The Passkey page for that cycle reads that reservations are closed.
The Visit Indy connected-hotel roster carries the Westin at 575 sleeping rooms and 42,500 square feet of meeting space. Those rooms equal 8.10 percent of the venue footer's 7,100 downtown rooms. The expo's 2,000 forecast comes to 3.48 attendees for each of the 575 rooms.
The February rate basis
Engine's Indianapolis series puts the average nightly rate at $128 across 1.2 million public rate observations from May 2024 to April 2026. February is the cheapest month in the table at $107, which is 16 percent below the city average. May is the most expensive at $158, 23 percent above it. The city ranks 39 of 50 markets and sits 14 percent below the $148 median.
Engine defines these as par rates. A par rate is the cheapest publicly available nightly rate at the time of a search.
February is the month the host hotel prices lowest, and it is the month this group arrives. That is the case the rate meeting has to hold.
The nights around the expo
The venue's event feed for January 20 to February 28, 2027 carries 14 records. The Indiana Health and Safety Conference and Expo runs February 7 to 10 at a published forecast of 850. The Core-Mark Expo opens February 10, the expo's closing day, at a published forecast of 1,500. The Economic Club of Indiana Luncheon falls on Friday February 12.
Wednesday February 10 carries three published movements. The expo closes that day. The safety conference closes that day. Core-Mark arrives. The three forecasts add to 4,350, which is 61.27 percent of the venue footer's 7,100 downtown rooms.
The market context
Downtown Indianapolis ran 64.7 percent occupancy against a national 62.4 percent, in a Downtown Indy Alliance snapshot that Bradford Allen sourced to CoStar and STR. Average daily rate reached $209.11, up 12 percent. Revenue per available room reached $135.20, up 13 percent.
The verdict
Book the expo at a firm rate across its two nights. Hold the February midweek floor through the arrival and the core nights, because two neighbouring groups price the same window. Tie any Wednesday premium to the 2027 block rate, the 2027 hall assignment and the expo's own 2027 scale line. Those three documents settle the question the rate meeting is asking.