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New Year's Ball drop draws 30,000
Rosa Parks Circle packed early, stayed late
Updated: Saturday, 02 Jan 2010, 9:51 AM EST
Published : Friday, 01 Jan 2010, 2:45 PM EST
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - The second year of the New Year's Ball Drop at Rosa Parks Circle was about three times larger than the first, according to officials with Citadel Broadcasting.
Marcus Bradman, the director of events and promotions for Citadel -- the sponsor of the event -- estimated the crowd at 30,000.
"I'm ecstatic with that number," he told 24 Hour News 8 . "Anytime you can get that many people together and not have any incidents is fantastic."
The crowd showed up earlier this year, he said. Rosa Parks Circle filled to capacity and stayed that way well past midnight.
He wondered,though, about how much bigger the now-annual event could get. "How many more people can we get in there? Rosa Parks Circle can only hold so many."
Including post-party clean-up, the event cost around $100,000, Bradman said.
Plans now are for another New Year's Eve party at the end of 2010. "We love when we can bring things downtown enhancing Grand Rapids. That's what it's all about."
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