Downtown Rochester Events

Showers minnesota lifting restrictions on gatherings and venues is clearly good news for the events industry.

As kimt news 3's annalise johnson is learning ?

"* the rochester downtown alliance is cautiously optimistic as they plan for 2021 events.

She joins us live.

George ?

"* as the weather gets warmer and restrictions are scaled back ?

"* the rda is prioritizing making sure businesses have what they need for outdoor dining.

It's also planning to host small events in the first half of the year ?

"* including fitness classes and pop up concerts.

By july ?*- the goal is to bring back some larger events ?

"* such as thursdays downtown.

The rda plans to ease into the festivities... spacing out tents ?

"* and breaking up musical acts throughout the day to prevent people from gathering too much.

While the rda is upbeat about the return of thursdays downtown ?

"* they know this summer will likely not be quite like pre?

"* pandemic summers.

We're very aware that people probably aren't going to be ready to really crowd together yet in july.

I'm sure there's some appetite for that, but we really are always concerned about the safety of our attendees for events so we're going to be looking at how can we do this event in the safest way possible the rda tells me that enforcing masking at a large event with no boundaries like thursdays downtown would be really difficult... so it's hoping as many people as possible are vaccinated by then.

But it will follow any safety measures recommended by government.

Live in rochester annalise johnson kimt news 3.o thank you annalise.

The rda is about to announce a start?

"*up event grant program for 2021... asking people to create pandemic appropriate events in the med city.