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Marina Square park offers an interactive fountain, sculpture, benches and
palms that provide shade.
of each month which draws up to 1,200 people.
“Businesses are staying open for these events.”
Since Main Street Fort Pierce began it has depended
on events to bring buyers to businesses. In the early
days it developed Friday Fest, Sights and Sounds on
Second Street, and the Backus Art Festival — events that
are still held today.
“People are coming from far and wide, not just right
around here, but from other counties too,” said Kane.
“The events that are held downtown really make a difference,
like the Farmers’ Market is a huge influence with
thousands of people, and the other day someone said
they’d been to a Cruise-In and they came back to shop
because they saw my store.”
Marina Square park next to Fort Pierce City Marina on
Melody Lane provides the sunny waterfront ambiance
which plays a big part in successful events, with the weekly
Farmer’s Market, Jazz Society concerts and other events
unfolding within a stone’s throw of the Indian River. The
park was reborn between 2002 and 2004, changing from a
landscaped grass park with a wooden boardwalk and
pavilion to a paved park with palms, sculptures, benches
and an interactive fountain.
A BUZZ AND A STIR
Jon Ward jumps to point out that the events are creating
a buzz and a stir downtown, drawing thousands to the center
of the old city that once was almost deserted.
“Not long ago we had two events going on,” he said.
“Imagine this — we had a crowd of 500-600 people over
by the marina listening to a jazz singer on a Thursday.
And we had a Bike Night with rock ‘n roll a block and a
half away, and we had hundreds more people here listening
to that. Then the week before we had Bike Rock ‘n
Roll Night and at the Sunrise, people were listening to the
opera ‘Tosca.’ So we have people here doing incredibly
diverse things all at the same time.”
As the downtown began to reinvent itself, the traffic and
parking issue common to old cities with narrow streets
had to be solved before people would want to come down->>
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