December 2010 - Decorate Downtown 2010

Decorate Downtown 2010
By Alan S Albin  (Photos by Alan & Emily Albin)

Every year the Downtown Management District invites volunteers to dress up DTOWN for the Holiday Season.  It’s a cheerful community event with the morning spent wrapping bows and garlands on the light poles that adorn our streets.  It brings a festive spirit to DTOWN which benefits the community and tourism! 

This year the event was adopted by the Downtown Attractiveness Committee which is chaired by DeeDee Perez of Hotel Corpus Christi Bayfront. This committee is charged with advocating for the development, funding, and implementation of Downtown improvements and so the Decorate Downtown event fits happily within their remit.

The DMD sponsors breakfast and lunch for the volunteers and a party atmosphere permeates the streets throughout the morning.

This year volunteer groups met up between 8 and 9:00 a.m. on November 20th at the 400 block of William Street where they registered with the DMD, collected their garlands and bows, and then moved on to La Bahia for a breakfast of tacos and orange juice before proceeding to their assigned streets to “Decorate Downtown” 

The volunteer groups for 2010 decorated the following streets:

Mann & Twigg streets (37 poles)                

Annapolis Christian Academy

Taylor Street (10 poles)                              

Moody & Rae High Schools

Starr Street 500 block     (6 poles)              

House of Rock

Starr St 400, 300 & 200 blocks (18 poles)

Axis Tattoo

Peoples Street (21 poles)                            

KRIS Communications
Schatzell Street (23 poles)                           

KRIS Communications

Lawrence Street (22 poles)                          

Grant Middle School

William Street (20 poles)                              

Whetstone Graphics

John Sartain (18 poles)                                 

Grant Middle School

Cooper’s Alley (11 poles)                            

Moody & Rae High Schools
Kinney Street (6 poles)                                 

Moody & Rae High Schools

Water Street (66 poles)                                

Parks & Recreation assisted by AT&T

A big THANK YOU is due to the groups and individuals who participated in this event which was finished by approx 11:30 am when everyone met up at House of Rock to exchange “Decorating Downtown” stories and to enjoy a pizza and soda lunch.

All the volunteers enjoyed their morning and are looking forward to the next event which will likely be held on Saturday November 19th, 2011 – save the date!

Parks and Recreation Department continued to work the following week to complete Water, Chaparral, and Mesquite streets.