Case Study · Premium Hospitality
Salvage City Supper Club.
A five-course, sixty-minute immersive dinner show running inside a working festival footprint at EDC Las Vegas, installed, run, and struck on the festival's clock.
The Challenge
Insomniac needed a premium seated experience that could live inside EDC Las Vegas without competing with it, a fully realised world guests felt they had stumbled onto, sited in Nomads Land, inside a festival footprint with its own identity, its own technical constraints, and an audience that has seen everything.
The constraints were real: a fixed footprint, a hard load-in window against the festival's own build, and a guest experience that had to stay intimate while turning over night after night.
The Approach
The full production lifecycle, Discover through Close. Discover defined the narrative world and tested it against the site. Design delivered the scenic language; Advance cleared the build against venue and fire-code requirements and locked the schedule around the festival calendar.
Procure and Build fabricated a modular scenic package sized to the load-in window. Install sequenced crew and freight around live programming. Operate ran the room on service, a choreographed show moving around seated guests while five courses landed on time. Close returned the ground clean.
A world guests felt they'd stumbled onto, installed and run and struck on the festival's clock.
The Result
The format returned to EDC Las Vegas, the clearest result an experience like this can post, and the reason the trade write-ups lead on returns to rather than debuts at.
Salvage City is now a repeatable format: proof that a seated, catered, performed world can be delivered inside a live festival footprint without either one compromising the other. Attendance and sell-through figures publish here as they clear client review.
The Credits
Client Insomniac · Venue Nomads Land, Las Vegas Motor Speedway · Year 2025–26 · Services Experiential Design & Production, Venue & Site Operations.
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