Southeastern Connecticut Home Show relocated to Mohegan Sun Convention Center
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Jenks Productions' Southeastern Connecticut Home & Garden Show will move to Mohegan
Sun’s Earth Expo & Convention Center in 2019. Jenks
Productions, the East Hampton company that manages the show, informed
vendors of the change in venue last week, promising “a grander, expanded
event with more home-related products and services, including
additional landscape and gardening businesses.”
The 2019 show is set for Feb. 22-24.
The home show is the latest event to commit to the $80 million Mohegan Sun Expo Center, which last month hosted its first tenant, Barrett-Jackson’s 3rd Annual Northeast Auction of collector cars.
“It’s
the largest public trade and consumer venue in the state. Some of the
bigger shows in the state have moved there already,” Dennis Jenks,
president and chief executive officer of Jenks Productions, said
Thursday. “I think it’s going to be the No. 1 place in the state to do
shows.”
In addition to more than 125,000 square feet of
exhibit space, the expo center offers ample parking and ready access to
the casino’s offerings, Jenks said.
“As
friendly and nice as the college was, it was problematic,” he said. “We
had to shuttle people (across Route 32) from the campus to the athletic
center, where there were only 200 parking spaces, and we had to work
around the college’s academic and athletic schedules.”
Early home shows were held in Conn College’s arena, and later ones made use of the fieldhouse as well, Jenks said.
The
Southeastern Connecticut Home Show typically has drawn about 200
vendors and thousands of show-goers, a turnout that’s likely to grow in
the event’s new location.
“In the past 37 years, 90 to 95
percent of our vendors have come from the New London, Norwich and
Westerly areas and from as far (west) as New Haven. Now, we’re going to
open it up to a few more statewide,” Jenks said. “I think the public is
really going to respond to the convenience and the fact that’s there’s
so much more going on (at Mohegan Sun).”
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