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The weekend-long event featuring hundreds of home services and products is a  counterpart to Pittsburgh’s Spring Home & Garden Show. 

You will have to wait a bit longer for the 40th annual Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show. The show, which in the past included more than 1,800 exhibits and attracted 350,000 people over 10 days, had been scheduled to run April 9-18. ON Monday, Executive Director John DeSantis announced the show would be postponed until October. “While we had hoped to open in some capacity this April, it is clear that more time is required to address the COVID-19 pandemic,” DeSantis says. “We are, of course, encouraged by the vaccine becoming widely available and by the rapid drop in cases. There has certain...

Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show moved to autumn Staff Reports PITTSBURGH — Traditionally held in spring, the Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show has been postponed until October. The specific October dates will be announced later this spring, organizers of the popular event inside the David Lawrence Convention Center posted Monday afternoon on Facebook. The state’s occupancy restrictions for Pennsylvania were increased to 20 percent capacity on Monday, but that still does not make viable the home and garden show for spring, organizers said. And they worry when the state might be able to suf...

The 2021 Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show has been rescheduled a second time, to October. And for the first time in 20 years, title sponsor Duquesne Light will not be a part of the show. “We are taking a pause,” said Hollie Geitner, a Duquesne Light spokeswoman. “It just doesn’t feel right for us at this time. We are a critical infrastructure company and it would be very concerning to be at an indoor event. We want to make sure we keep the lights on for our customers.” Geitner said they usually have 100 volunteers at the event. She said they respect the decision to adjust this year’s...

Show Executive Director John DeSantis said the 10-day event is planned for April instead of its usual March time slot. Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the show is planned for April 9-18 at the David Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown. “We slid it back a month in anticipation of going forward with the show,” DeSantis said. “We’ve been watching (the covid-19) numbers week to week. We feel like the extra month will allow us to have a show close to normal. Because if the show can’t be close to what people are used to seeing, and it’s not recognizable, then we wouldn’t want to do...