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Plan of the exposition Cotton Palace and Sunken Garden The Auditorium Manufactures Building. To overcome weakening trade with Latin America and the Caribbean and seeing the benefits of fairs like the Cotton States and International Exposition held in Atlanta, Georgia in 1895, a railroad executive, J. H. Averill, advocated holding an exposition in Charleston in the News and Courier.
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In 1994, the 36,000-square-foot (3,300 m 2) Grand Hall of the convention center received a new ceiling, paint and lighting and the ice rink was also converted into an exhibit hall in the 2001. The last renovations took place between 2004 and 2006 when about $250,000 was spent to renovate the Little Theater.
In 2023, the National Hardware Show was co-dated with Design & Construction Week in Las Vegas. [4] The 2023 Design and Construction Week drew nearly 110,000 attendees and nearly 2,000 exhibitors occupying more than one million square feet of indoor and outdoor exhibits. [5]
The College of Charleston bought the former Gloria Theater in 1976 and planned on restoring it as a 1,000 to 1,200 seat venue. For ten years, however, the building was simply used as storage. [ 4 ] College of Charleston President Harry M. Lightsey, Jr., led efforts to refurbish the theatre in 1986, and it reopened in February 1990.
The 2017 show spanned a record 2.8 million-plus net square feet of exhibits, with a record 2,800-plus exhibitors. Show attendance neared 128,000 for the week. [5] The world’s first 3D-printed excavator and the new Tech Experience debuted at the 2017 show. [6]
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