Thousands will be coming to town this weekend for the 28th annual Market Street Festival, and several downtown streets will be closing starting on Friday morning.
The festival will include more than 200 arts, crafts and food vendors, taking up 12 city blocks downtown. It will kick off at 6 p.m. Friday with a Jimmy Buffet tribute concert — in keeping with the weekend event’s “Market-ritaville” theme — at the Roger Short Soccer Complex and will conclude Saturday afternoon.
Streets will begin closing for the festival at 6 a.m. Friday. All streets will be closed by 3 p.m. and will remain closed until the festival’s conclusion Saturday.
A section of Main Street, from Third to Fifth Street South, and Catfish Alley will close at 6 a.m. Friday.
The remaining streets will close after 3 p.m. Friday, including portions of Fifth Street, Main Street, College Street, Sixth Street, Fourth Street and Third Street South.
Three downtown parking lots will be closed, including behind J. Broussard’s and Hollyhocks, beside Catfish Alley and on College Street behind the Post Office. Each parking lot must be vacated by 3 p.m. Friday.
There will be one special entrance open Friday afternoon at College Street and Seventh Street South for parents to pick up their children from the First United Methodist Day care.
All cars not removed by closing times will be towed to the Farmers’ Market parking lot at the owner’s expense. Employees of downtown businesses and residents of apartments will need to park outside of the festival zone.
McRae is a general assignment and education reporter for The Dispatch.
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