The coming summer promises to be a busy one in downtown Columbus–and autumn, too.
I’ve been seeing the flier shown above around town, and it indicates that this year the downtown event planners have come up with some new events and reintroduced some classics. The Pearl Market has long been a staple of the downtown area, with its fresh fruit and vegetable stands and homemade items. They’ve evidently decided to bring back the “Rally in the Alley,” which was a popular party and music event back in the ’90s. “Wellness Wednesdays,” with mindfulness classes and yoga, is a new option, as are movies at the Topiary Park and the intriguing Cirque du Pearl, which conjures images of trapeze artists, firebreathers, and jugglers entertaining in and above the alley. I think the Downtown Holiday Trolley Hop is new as well.
Add in some of the other staples of a downtown summer–Columbus Crew matches at Lower.com Field, the CAPA Summer Movie series at the Ohio Theater, Columbus Clippers games at Huntington Park, and the array of offerings from CAPA, among others–and you’ve given a lot of options to the people who live in or near downtown. That’s a good thing, too, because if you want to encourage people to live downtown, as the city of Columbus does, then you need to give them things to do on the weekends and during the week.
Which do you think will be more popular–Wellness Wednesdays, or the chance to guzzle a few brewskis and listen to music at the revived Rally in the Alley?
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