You might not realize it when you’re standing in Park View’s recently-opened Hook Hall, but you’re actually inside an event planner’s dream space.

The enormous—13,500 square feet, to be exact—new cafe-slash-bar has multiple points of vehicular access, so a few vendors can unload their equipment at once. There’s more than one electric circuit, in case one of them blows. And one of the loading dock entrances is on a slight incline, just in case you have to drive a Lamborghini inside.

Hook Hall owner Anna Valero is a former event planner who’s had to drive her share of display cars into venues for galas and the like, and she designed the space that she would have wanted in her days in the industry.

“It’s been kind of fun to sit down and think through every terrible thing that has ever happened to me at an event as a planner,” Valero says. “Hook Hall became a place where I could solve for X so that other planners wouldn’t have those issues.”

Valero is intimately familiar with the space, as the owner of its former tenant, Kraken Axes (which has moved to Penn Quarter). She’s reimagined it as a space to celebrate special events, but also as a casual spot for walk-ins. Starting in the early morning, Hook Hall will be open with coffee and pastries, and will have tables available for working or socializing. In the evenings, expect games of giant Jenga or ping pong and a selection of beers and wines.

Morning service—which will open in the coming weeks—means that for work-from-home-ers who find cozy all-day cafes like nearby Colony Club too crowded will likely find a table in Hook Hall’s spacious digs. The coffee and espresso from Maryland’s Vigilante Coffee, pastries from D.C.’s Bread and Chocolate Bakery, and ready-made sandwiches and other lunch items also sweeten the deal.

“When I used to do freelance work, I just had a really unique community of people that I met at coffee shops, who were in a similar boat to me—we were all sitting there pounding away at our laptops for hours on end,” Valero says. “And I look forward to seeing a similar type of community just organically grow here.”

Come nighttime, a rotating selection of vendors will be on hand with hot food (Rocklands BBQ was on site last week), and packaged snacks will be available at the bar. The drink menu includes nearly 20 beers, and a handful of ciders, cocktails, and wines. This weekend, the bar will feature a crush cocktail bar, for crush cocktails made with Bon & Viv spiked seltzer.

At the forthcoming outdoor space, Valero says a synthetic lawn will be open for kids to run around, or to host live music in the evening or afternoon. (“Because I think everyone has realized that we all want to be in bed by nine,” Valero says.) Cabanas for group lounging will be available by reservation or walk-in.

Because Valero also owns the beverage event company Drink the District, she says she’ll also be bringing some of those events (such as cider and beer festivals) to Hook Hall. There’s another, less traditional experience she’s mulling on bringing to the giant bar: a roller rink.

“What a fun experience for parents to get to bring to their kids,” Valero says. “Here in the city, it’s so hard to find experiences like that in in your own backyard as a parent, right? … I’m excited about the fact that I could take my 9-year-old niece roller skating in my own joint.”

Hook Hall is located at 3400 Georgia Ave. NW. Open Thursday-Friday 4:30 p.m.-12 a.m., Saturday 12 p.m.-12 a.m., Sunday 12 p.m.-7 p.m. Morning hours and full schedule to be added in coming weeks.