Des Moines Register
Let the countdown begin: there are 100 days until the Iowa State Fair returns after its first cancellation since World War II.
The fair, which often draws more than 1 million visitors to the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, is scheduled for Aug. 12-22.
Gary Slater, fair CEO, said earlier this year that, barring a huge and unexpected resurgence of the coronavirus, there will be a fair.
“In terms of whether the fair will go ahead or not, if we continue to get better and better and the virus rate keeps going down and down, I don’t think that’s an issue on whether the fair will go forward or not, Slater told the Des Moines Register in a February interview.
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Let the countdown begin: Tuesday marked 100 days until the Iowa State Fair returns after its first cancellation since World War II.
The fair, which often draws more than 1 million visitors to the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, is scheduled for Aug. 12-22.
Gary Slater, fair CEO, said earlier this year that, barring a huge and unexpected resurgence of the coronavirus, there will be a fair.
“In terms of whether the fair will go ahead or not, if we continue to get better and better and the virus rate keeps going down and down, I don’t think that’s an issue on whether the fair will go forward or not, Slater told the Des Moines Register in a February interview.
Des Moines-area hotel property values fall 30%
âWhen the cash flow goes away, the value goes away,â says one local banker Friday, April 9, 2021 6:00 AM
For over a year, more than half of the Des Moines area’s 13,000 hotel and motel rooms have sat empty, a result of the economic shutdown caused by the pandemic.
The sudden drop of hotel guests caused revenues to plummet and employees to be furloughed or laid off. In March, the Polk County Assessor’s Office released information showing a 30% decline in assessed valuation of the county’s 123 hotel and motel properties, from a total $634.4 million in value in 2020 to $450.7 million in 2021.