Smith Architecture and Planning Begins New Fairgrounds Projects

September 28, 2021

Charlie Smith, Principal Architect of Smith Architecture and Planning, LLC recently announced four new Fairgrounds design projects. Smith has been encouraging his clients to initiate planning and design during the pandemic when business was relatively slow so they would be ready to move forward with their projects as the economy rebounds. Smith’s new projects include a new masterplan for the Greater Jacksonville Ag Fair and Expo Center, Jacksonville, Fla., planning input for the Martin County Fair, Stuart, Fla., the Southwest Florida and Lee County Fair and Lee County Civic Center and a new masterplan for the South Dakota State Fair in Huron, S.D. Shown from left are (photo #1) Smith and Bill Olson president/CEO of the Greater Jacksonville Ag Fair and Expo Center, (photo #2) Chester Edwards, President of the Martin County Fair; Smith and Jay Spicer, executive director shown at the new fairgrounds site near Indiantown, Fla. (Photo #3) Shown inside the Lee County Civic Center on the SW Florida and Lee County Fairgrounds are Fair Manager Fran Crone, Smith, and Mike Peak, president of the Lee County Fair. (Photo #4} At the kick-off meeting for the South Dakota Fair Masterplan in Huron, are (from left) South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture Hunter Roberts, Smith, and Peggy Besch, State Fair manager