To: Board of County Commissioners
Through: Gini Pingenot, Director, Open Spaces Glen Poole, Open Spaces Operations Manager
Prepared By:
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Matt Bixenman, Fairgrounds Site Manager, Open Spaces
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Presenter: Matt Bixenman, Fairgrounds Site Manager, Open Spaces; Lexy Kingsbaker, Event and Business Development Supervisor, Open Spaces
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11:00 AM *2025 Arapahoe County Fairgrounds and Park Event Center Programming
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Purpose and Request:
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Staff will provide an informational update regarding the 2024 annual event programming hosted at the Event Center: Arapahoe County Fairgrounds and Park.
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Background and Discussion: The Event Center at Arapahoe County's Fairgrounds and Park's mission is to provide educational, agricultural and recreational experiences that celebrate our western heritage and preserve our prairie environment, economic and managerial sustainability.
To accomplish this mission, staff strives to ensure event holders receive exceptional customer service while providing visitors opportunities to attend a wide array of regional and community-based events at a County facility the public can be proud of.
Our work is guided, in part, by a market study that was conducted by an independent consultant in 2015 to evaluate regional and local event facility needs in the south metro Denver/Aurora area. This study provided insights to the County on the type of events the facilities would need to support over the next 3-5 years of its operations. The study identified lack of large exhibition hall space in our region. This finding ultimately led the County to collaborate on the construction of an Exhibition Hall addition to the existing building. The market study also informed potential event demographics interested in renting the space for resident-driven events. Those included: Consumer shows, such as home shows, garden shows, tech events, car shows, pet expo, clothing consignment s...
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