Lexington, KY - All but one of the businesses contracted as vendors or support service providers for the city's Spotlight Lexington Festival during the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games are located in Kentucky, most of them in Lexington.
Business Lexington
An updated listing of participating vendors provided to by Krista Greathouse, Mayor Newberry's World Equestrian Games Liaison, includes:
Staging,Sound and Lights - Pyramid Sound and Lights - Lexington, KY
Catering - DaRae's - Lexington, KY
Marketing - Cornett Integrated Marketing Services - Lexington, KY
Utility Carts - Sunbelt Rentals - Lexington, KY
Merchandiser - Hands On Originals - Lexington, KY
Portable toilets and offices - A1 Portables - Lexington, KY
Event Services - Welborns' - Owensboro, KY
Video board - Multimedia Farms - Canfield, OH - $39,942 (The only other bidder for this service was Transit Image of Texas at $49,500)
The Sept. 24-Oct. 10 festival in downtown Lexington is scheduled to coincide with the 16-day international equine competition at the Kentucky Horse Park.
Plans call for three main venues located in Triangle Park, Cheapside Park and a main stage at Robert F. Stephens Courthouse Plaza. The main stage will host remedaling ceremonies and nightly concerts. Lunch time activities in the courthouse plaza will include a live feed from the Horse Park projected onto a jumbotron video screen.
More information about the festival is available online at http://www.lexingtonky.gov/spotlightlexington/