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Fall High Point Market To Have New Format, Rules For Distancing

As the coronavirus pandemic worsened, the High Point Market Authority canceled the spring event. The next furniture show will take place October 13-21. Photo courtesy of High Point Market Authority.

The High Point Market Authority says changes are coming to the fall international furniture market to limit the threat from COVID-19.

Market officials are trying to reduce the population density that usually comes with the busy event. 

The plan is to spread it out over nine days from October 13-21. Buyers and other market-goers will be asked to pick one three-day period during that time to conduct their business. That way, there will be fewer people gathered at once across the 11-million square feet of showroom space.

Social distancing will still be enforced, and a strong emphasis will be placed on sanitation and cleaning.

The spring market was initially postponed and ultimately canceled due to the global pandemic. The twice-a-year market has an estimated regional economic impact of about $6 billion per year.

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Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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