Why Corporate Trainers and RTOs Are Ditching the CBD for Eastern Innovation's Meeting Rooms and Event Space
By Eric Stone, Strategic Growth Advisor at Eastern Innovation
Quick answer: Eastern Innovation in Mulgrave offers meeting and training rooms for 2 to 120 people at well below CBD boardroom rates ($120 to $240 per hour in the city), with 100 free onsite car parks, an onsite kitchen, BYO catering and an event manager on hand, all five minutes off the freeway.
If you run a training business, you already know the maths. A CBD boardroom that fits twelve people can run you $120 to $240 an hour before you've paid for a single coffee, a validated car park, or the time your attendees lose circling the block looking for one. For an RTO or corporate training provider running back-to-back sessions, that adds up fast, in dollars and in no-shows.
Eastern Innovation Business Centre, five minutes off the freeway in Mulgrave, is built to solve exactly this problem. Here's what makes it worth a look if you're currently paying CBD rates for a room that doesn't even come with parking.
No Traffic, No Parking Hunt
Every attendee gets one of 100 free car parks, right off the freeway, with none of the CBD's stop-start traffic to fight through first. For a training session that starts at 9am sharp, that's the difference between a room full of relaxed learners and a room half-empty because half your group is still hunting for a spot three streets away.
A Fraction of CBD Pricing
Comparable coworking boardrooms in the city run at $120 to $240 an hour. Eastern Innovation's meeting rooms and function spaces are priced well below that, without cutting corners on the room itself. For a training provider running multi-day courses or a full calendar of sessions, that difference compounds into real budget headroom. That money can go back into course materials, marketing, or simply protecting your margin.
More Than a Room: An Event Manager, a Kitchen and BYO Catering
Book a council hall and you're usually on your own. Book a hotel function room and catering is compulsory, at hotel prices. Eastern Innovation gives you an onsite event manager to help the day run smoothly, an onsite kitchen, and the freedom to bring your own catering. If your training day includes morning tea, a working lunch, or a celebratory close-out, you decide how it's catered and what it costs, not the venue.
Rooms That Scale From a Boardroom to an Awards Night
Corporate training rarely fits one room size. A compliance refresher for six people needs a different space to a full-day workshop for forty, and an end-of-program graduation or awards night needs something else again. Eastern Innovation's rooms scale from 2 to 120 people: boardrooms, mid-size training rooms, and a full function venue that can be booked whole or split in half. That means you can run the small stuff and the big stuff at the same venue, with a team that already knows how you like things set up.
Built With Training Providers and RTOs in Mind
None of this is by accident. Eastern Innovation sits inside a working business centre in the City of Monash, surrounded by the kind of corporate and small-business tenants that make up a training provider's core audience. It's a professional setting your attendees will take seriously, with the practical extras (parking, catering flexibility, room sizes that flex with your cohort) that make delivering training genuinely easier, not just cheaper.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much do meeting rooms cost near Monash compared to the CBD?
City coworking boardrooms typically run $120 to $240 an hour. Eastern Innovation's meeting and training rooms in Mulgrave are priced well below that for a comparable room, with free onsite parking included.
Is parking available for training sessions at Eastern Innovation?
Yes. There are 100 free onsite car parks, right off the freeway, so attendees don't need to search for paid parking near the venue.
Can I bring my own catering to a training day?
Yes. Eastern Innovation allows BYO catering and has an onsite kitchen, so you're not locked into a venue's in-house catering at inflated prices.
What size rooms are available for corporate training and events?
Rooms scale from 2 to 120 people, from small boardrooms up to a full function venue that can be booked whole or split in half. It suits anything from a compliance refresher to an awards night.
See It for Yourself
If you're an RTO or corporate training provider within reach of Mulgrave and the City of Monash, it's worth comparing your current per-session cost (room hire, parking, catering markups and all) against what you'd pay here.
