The Light Up the Night Fat Tuesday Parade will move yet again, this time to Washington Avenue. Scheduled for 7 p.m. Feb. 21, the route will start at Broadway and Washington Avenue and travel west to 14th Street.?Organizers hope the Washington Avenue?route, which travels past several restaurants and bars, will attract more spectators.
"It's always been a challenge for the Fat Tuesday to find it's audience, partly because it's the region's only nighttime parade and partly because it's February," said Mack Bradley, spokesman of Mardi Gras organizer Mardi Gras Inc. "Washington Avenue was recently recognized as one of the greatest streets in the world and, in the evening, it's really beautiful. Why wouldn't you want it a parade there?"
During its seven years downtown, the Fat Tuesday Parade has taken a variety of routes, most recently traveling?south on?Broadway.?Bradley hopes this is?the last route change for the event.?St. Louis officials and Washington Avenue property owners have signed off on the new course.
Bradley also said Mardi Gras Inc. is encouraging more krewes to participate in this year's event. Typically some 110 units march in the Soulard Grand Parade, scheduled for Feb. 18, but?some 15 floats appear in the Fat Tuesday Parade. Some krewes don't have a place to park their floats; others, quite frankly, don't have the energy for another big event. Bradley hopes to address the former issue by securing warehouse space for floats.
"If we can give the krewes a place to park near the parade route we think that would make it logistically easier for them," said Bradley. "We don't want 50 floats. I think 20, 25 floats is the sweet spot for a nighttime parade."
For a complete schedule of Mardi Gras events, visit mardigrasinc.com.
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