The City of West Palm Beach Community Events Division produces over 600 unique, original, award-winning events each year along the incomparable West Palm Beach Waterfront. Renovated for the community, this area consists of generous green spaces with trees, fountains, trellises, and plazas that open to resplendent views of the Intracoastal Waterway, accommodating festivals and events from 1,000-20,000 people. A wide variety of venues nested within the Waterfront Commons are available for private event bookings, among them a state-of-the-art interactive fountain, the award-winning Lake Pavilion, gorgeous parks, docks, an open-air amphitheater, and many more. A jewel of the tropics with its paradisal views, coastal breezes and lush spaces, the West Palm Beach Waterfront is an unrivaled setting for festival and events. 

Any parade, fair, show, festival, carnival, rally, party, motorcade, run, street dance, bike-a-thon, race, walks, athletic event or other attended entertainment or celebration that is to be held in whole or in part upon publicly owned property and/or public right-of-way, or if held wholly upon private property, but will nevertheless affect or impact the ordinary and normal use by the general public of public property or public right-of-way within the vicinity of the event, and/or will involve noise levels prohibited by Section 34-25 and Section 34-38 of the Code.

Special Event shall also mean any activity to be held in whole or in part upon publicly owned or controlled property and/or public rights-of-way where merchandise or services are offered for sale, whether by for-profit or non-profit organizations. Special Events do not include events held in facilities described in Category No. 162 of the Master Use List, Appendix A, of the City’s Zoning Code, i.e., “Theaters, Indoor Motion Picture and Live Performance” and events held in the Palm Beach County Convention Center.

Download the Special Event Permit Application Package.

Please review the information on this Application before filling it out. If you have any questions please call Community Events at (561) 822-1515 for assistance, or one of the numbers below:

SPECIAL EVENTS HELD ON PUBLIC PROPERTY

Permit Information
Contact the Community Events Division
Email: MyEvent@wpb.org
Phone Number: 561-822-1515
Download the Special Event Permit Application Package.

Neighborhood Block Party Information
Contact Jean-Brucely Joseph, Engineering Division
Email: jbjoseph@wpb.org
Phone Number: 561-494-1141
Download Neighborhood Block Party Permit Application.

SPECIAL EVENTS HELD ON PRIVATE PROPERTY

Contact Development Services
Phone Number: 561-805-6700

Lake Pavilion Information
Contact Tracy Smith-Coffee
Email:  lakepavilion@wpb.org
Phone Number:  561-822-1523
Download Lake Pavilion Rental Application

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City of West Palm Beach Community Events Division
401 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Tel: (561) 822-1515 | TTY: (800) 955-8771