Muskegon's determination to feature the arts as part of its downtown revival has given the city a new open-air performance area for lunchtime concerts and other entertainment events.
According to excerpts from the story:
The days of imagining lunchtime lectures, free outdoor concerts — even street performers playing for tips — are over with the completion of the open-air Olthoff Street Stage downtown. Conceived in 2004 as part of the Imagine Muskegon campaign, the Third Street Promenade’s street stage will be dedicated this week and is the last piece of the block-long plaza between Western and Clay avenues. But with autumn’s inconsistent weather upon us, it may be next spring before residents can make much use of the public gathering place.
Thursday’s dedication ceremony will go on regardless and include remarks by city officials and the “naming” benefactors. Mike and Kay Olthoff, the owners of Nichols Paper, donated $100,000 as a lead gift for the Third Street Promenade and the public stage.
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