Daily News | The Philadelphia Flower Show is returning to the Convention Center in 2023, and the stakes are high
, like a garden path and more bands in the Grand Hall, an extended Artisan row, a butterfly garden, and a marketplace with double the vendors from last year.
“This has been a transformative moment where we have stepped away from the past to invent a completely new show,” said Rader. “And now coming back downtown, we are inventing another new show.” took the unprecedented step of digging into its endowment funds — withdrawing $4.6 million, or about 10% of unrestricted funds accrued mainly from past Flower Show proceeds. That money helped cover the show’s fixed costs.
Thanks to that extra influx of cash, the Flower Show’s first ever trip outdoors broke even on $8.4 million in production expenses,The 2022 show also relied on endowment funds. The show was a point of pride for PHS and highly rated by guests — those who came, anyway. Ticket revenue plunged to $2.6 million, a 50% loss from 2020 .. It raised more than $5 million for show costs, plus the $1.5 million for PHS programming.
Scott Kremp, who owns Kremp Florist in Willow Grove, has sold at the Flower Show for nearly 50 years. He’s excited to return after skipping last year. The outdoor show, he saidjust lacked the normal “oomph.” But he’s unsure if the oomph will return to the Convention Center. “I had way more friends and people in my circles go to, and talk about the Flower Shows at FDR Park,” said Conrad Benner, who runs the Philly arts photo-blog “Streets Dept.” He curated exhibits at both outdoor shows, and will be curating one this year celebrating Philly’s mural scene. “I’m curious if that same energy will be there when it goes back to the Convention Center.”
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