NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Kansas State Fair General Manager Bryan Schulz said a long-awaited project on the fairgrounds is finally done.
"House of Capper and Co-Op Park have been finished," Schulz said. "It looks fantastic. Wiens Construction and all their sub crews came in there and did a phenomenal job. It is absolutely beautiful. If you haven't swung through the Fairgrounds, check it out. We'll be doing an actual ribbon cutting sometime in July towards the end. We want all of our people from Kansas Co-Ops to be able to attend and with wheat harvest coming up in the next month, we wanted to definitely make sure that they were available, so we pushed it back to July."
An old building will be going away to make room for the new Foundation Event Venue on the Fairgrounds.
"They are, I believe, in the next two weeks, going to come in and tear down the old Fine Arts building, which is just directly east of Domestic Arts," Schulz said. "That's where the facility will go. Their plan is to have it up and running for the 2024 Kansas State Fair."
In addition, there should be some new asphalt to walk on this year.
"Our plan is to do the whole grounds," Schulz said. "This is a very large elephant and we have to take it off chunk by chunk, as they say. We are taking different areas of the grounds, as they become available, because we don't have an event going on there. Our ultimate goal, if not prior to Fair, right after Fair, we will have the whole grounds re-asphalted."
The Kansas State Fair is September 8 to 17, 2023.
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