COVID-19 Update: Drape Kings Transitions from Events to COVID 19 Response

	Drape Kings is providing critical support with drape and the building of temporary field hospitals in New York City.

In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Drape Kings was one of the first vendors to provide critical support to their local area by delivering drape and building temporary field hospitals in both Queens and Brooklyn, New York. Beginning with the Jacob Javits Center, Drape Kings' dedicated stagehands delivered 320 feet of 30'h and 160' of 16h drape which was used to manage ambient lighting and create privacy as this large exposition center was transformed into the first public space to house the New York City hospital overflow. This critical area became the press backdrop for Governor Cuomo and the Army Corp of Engineers.

As the support ramped up, Drape Kings crews also erected 560 temporary hospital rooms in the USTA Billy Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York, then added another 200 to meet increased capacity needs. This temporary hospital is being housed in the 100,000-sq.-ft. indoor training center and opened on April 9, 2020.

The Disaster Response Team then reached out to Drape Kings to build 800 temporary hospital rooms in the 182,000-sq.-ft. Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. Drape Kings' dedicated team worked around the clock to meet the tight deadlines and enabled the city to be ready to open the facility on April 17, 2020. While their stagehands were building temporary hospitals, the Drape Kings Fabrication Team built hundreds of protective face masks to help keep employees, friends, and families safe.

Dru Whitacre, CEO and founder states, "We are grateful that our live event industry experience with speed to market has allowed us to re-tool and build a temporary hospital within hours of the call. The fact that we can continue to employ our staff in the office, warehouse, and in the field, while becoming a critical asset to our community, is a win-win. We are proud to be a part of the events industry that has so quickly adapted to this current crisis. We continue to meet the current COVID-19 market need for masking drape and crowd control and look forward to serving our industry again when it is safe for us to return to live gatherings."

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