Detroit says bye to City Fest, hello to New Center Park

Detroit's New Center neighborhood isn't aiming to be a one-shot-and-out place. Instead it's canceling its big event, Cityfest, so it can focus on holding a number of smaller events at its new park in front of the world-famous Fisher Building.

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Let's get the bad news out of the way: New Center's Cityfest has been canceled, at least for 2010. While the economy and accompanying reduced sponsorship levels have something to do with the cessation of a Detroit tradition, the reality is much more complex.

Now for the good news: Improvements to New Center Park have created a neighborhood venue that will be programmed four days a week. New Center Council president Michael Solaka says that is more conducive to realizing the organization's goal of community and economic development than is a festival that happens but once a year. "Our mission is to develop New Center into a thriving 24-hour neighborhood," he says. "(The park) is an economic development thing as opposed to an image-building event."

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Detroit says bye to City Fest, hello to New Center Park

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