After more than two years of construction, the 268,000-square-foot Agri-Food Hub & Trade Centre is set to start hosting events in Lethbridge later this spring.
“The Agri-Food Hub & Trade Centre will drive tourism to our city, create opportunities for local businesses, give a place for the agriculture and agri-food industries to highlight their value and become a centrepiece for our community to come together,” said Mike Warkentin, Lethbridge & District Exhibition CEO.
“The possibilities presented by this facility are endless.”
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More than 1,600 tonnes of steel and 10,000 square feet of glass panels were used in the building, which also has a unique engineered concrete floor system in its trade halls. A “revolutionary” technique pre-stresses steel fibres to create a 110-millimetre-thick concrete floor “as strong as a conventionally reinforced 200-millimetre-thick floor,” Lethbridge & District Exhibition said in a release.
