Pa. plans new Farm Show exhibit hall
HARRISBURG Gov. Dick over |3.8 million for improvements Secretary Hallowell said the new
Thornburgh’s 1983-84 Capital to the State Farm Show Complex, exhibition hall was among many
Budget, if passed by the General including a new. multi-purpose changes now scheduled to iipprove
Assembly this year, will allocate exhibition ball. the complex, both for visitors and
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“Governor Thornburgh asked
the Farm Show Commission to
evaluate the needs of the complex
to make it thoroughly competitive
with .exposition centers in other
Bast Coast cities,” he said. “The
improvements we have planned
will be a tug step in that direction.”
According to Hallowell, the new
exhibition building would have
72,0 W square feet of floor space
which would provide exhibition
space, a new livestock washroom a
storage area and office area.
“With a building this size, the
Farm Show will be more attractive
to prospective shows. It will also
pick up the exhibition space lost
when the fire corridors were built
into the main hall several years
ago, giving us more freedom in
entries to large shows like the
Farm Show. -■ ,
“The. initial investment in the
building will be returned through
the revenues from more shows at
the complex, and the contributions
the complex makes to the Central
Pennsylvania economy,”
Hallowell said.
The Farm Show Complex is also
scheduled to get a new hot water
zoned heating system. “The
current heating system operates
on a 46 percent efficiency level,
and requires beating the entire 14-
acre complex even if only one
section is in use,” Hallowed ex
plainori “ T he new system should
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year, from the $216,000 paid for
heating last year.”
Hallowell said other im
provements in the complex indude
repairs in rest room and shower
areas for farm youth, new bed
linens, new paint in youth dor
mitories and indoor-outdoor
carpeting for the area. Funds for
these improvements have come
from Farm Youth Benefit Night
concerts during the 1962 and 1963
Farm Shows.
The Agriculture Secretary said
that additional plans for improved
parking facilities are underway
already. Work will begin tins
spring on paving the middle sec
tion of the 45-acre parking lot and a
larger tract which was leveled last
year. Better lighting and painted
parking spaces will also help
improve the parking facility.
“We are also looking at other
alternatives to improve the
parking situation, including
widening access roads and ex
panding the lot to the opposite side
of Cameron Street,” Hallowed
said.
“The Farm Show Complex is
important to the agricultural
community, and to the economy of
the Central Pennsylvania area,”
he noted. “The improvements now
planned and scheduled will help
keep the complex a true
‘showplace for agriculture’.”
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