With the Kentucky Exposition Center (KEC) gearing up for a major renovation and construction project designed to further modernize its facilities, expand its footprint and reorient the building, Equip Exposition organizers are taking steps to make the West Wing more comfortable and offer new experiences for attendees in 2024.
“Now that Equip shuttles will drop off and pick up attendees at the West Wing, we’ve added a commuter lounge, food trucks and seating, and registration,” says Kris Kiser, president and CEO of the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, which owns Equip Exposition. “Also, with many of the new training and certification classrooms as well as the New Product Showcase located there, we expect the West Wing to be a major hub of activity. The West Wing is geared toward landscapers and contractors so they can experience where the industry is going next and get valuable training and certifications that will help expand their businesses when they get home.”
Some of the experiences attendees will find in the West Wing at Equip Expo 2024 include:
- A new Classroom and Certification Center
- The annual dog adoption event, Mutt Madness on Thursday, Oct. 17 in the new Mulligan’s Garden Park
- New Infinity pool training
- The Drone Zone
- The New Product Showcase
- The Equip Golf Experience sponsored by TD Retail Card Services
- Food offerings and seating
The Classroom and Certification Center will offer classes covering scaling your business, developing crew leaders into better managers, pesticide management and application, tree and shrub pruning and plant health and more.
The Equip Golf Experience will enable attendees to get together while having some fun. The indoor food trucks and seating area will allow for meetups while fueling up to traverse the one million square feet of exhibit space at the industry’s leading trade show and its 30-acre Outdoor Demo Yard. And there even will be an opportunity to give a rescue dog a forever home at Mulligan’s Mutt Madness, now located in the West Wing.
Equip Exposition also will give back this year with a special project that helps Louisville-based philanthropy Blessings in a Backpack. Attendees visiting the West Wing can help stuff hundreds of backpacks with meals for distribution to school kids who may not have enough to eat over the weekend at home. The event is sponsored by Hunter and the TurfMutt Foundation.
