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DEL.ICIO.USWhere Should the Dogwood Festival Go?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When the city and Piedmont Park Conservancy announced earlier this month that poor drought-stricken Piedmont Park needs a break from festivals this year, Dogwood Festival organizers got busy.
But the hunt for a new site is taking time and creativity.
Organizers have decided that Turner Field, the Atlanta Civic Center and Atlantic Station, due to various size and scheduling conflicts, aren’t going to work.
They also have considered the “Technology Square” area around 5th and Spring streets, and the Woodruff Arts Center. Neither of those turned out to be a workable option either.
But they’re not giving up. While organizers want to keep the 72nd annual event, planned for April 4-6, in Midtown, looking to Lenox Square or Stone Mountain might be necessary, as my colleague Chandler Brown reports in Tuesday’s AJC.
“Both facilities can host the event and have proven successes hosting events the size of the Dogwood Festival,” Atlanta Dogwood Festival executive director Brian Hill said in a release.
Have Atlanta festivals become victims of their own success? Where do you think the Dogwood should be held this year?
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By Cougarmom
January 29, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this
What about that land out on the Fulton/Douglas County line where they held that big music festival this past summer?
By HP
January 29, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
No!! We didn’t want the last festival that was here and we had numerous complaints because of the noise and traffic. Even though the “clientele” of the Dogwood Festival is more sophisticated and genteel, the noise level would still be too high and the traffic would be horrible for our small 2 lane roads.
By the baby sniff
January 30, 2008 7:25 AM | Link to this
let the suburbs deal with it. nobody in town likes it. it’s full of suburbanites. the dogwood festival is a complete toolfest!