Jordan says the number of shows to be presented at the event center “is a work in progress. Seating will be folding stadium seats - “full-blown theatre chairs with arm rests and seat cushions,” Berkowitz says. For concerts, Berkowitz says, a full stage will be added, with state-of-the-art audio and visual equipment and artistic lighting. That, Berkowitz says, will let the event center be “conference space by day, a theater by night.”īecause it’s a multi-purpose facility, the event center is a vast, open, with a carpeted floor. It even can have different events at the same time. free-flowing and open space,” Berkowitz says.Ī feature the new Mount Airy space has that the Sands does not is that it can be partitioned into as many as six separate rooms. “It’s a phenomenal space: a pre-function area with a bar atmosphere,” Jordan says. Mount Airy’s event center has an adjacent 4,000-square-foot pre-concert space.