Get Ready for the 2010 New Year’s Eve Bash

City of McAllen


Heart of the City Director Alida Hernandez and McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez unveiled preliminary plans for the 2010 New Year’s Eve Bash and Ball Drop, Tuesday.

The event, coordinated by Heart of the City and hundreds of McAllen City employees, is expected to top the 2009 bash. Party goers from all over South Texas and northern Mexico have been invited to the grand celebration.

"This particular event is unequaled in McAllen. There is no event like it, in terms of size,” Rodriguez said in his opening comments, at a morning press conference.

McAllen’s 2010 New Year’s Eve Bash and Ball Drop, likened to the New Year’s Eve Ball Drop in New York, will be held on Thursday, December 31st, from 7 pm to 1 am.

Pertinent Facts
· New Year’s ball is 2 ½ times bigger; 15 feet in diameter

· In addition to 21 clubs and restaurants on 17th Street, event features 40 food booths & live bands

· Tickets available for VIP dinner atop city parking garage, through Heart of the City at 686-4357.

· Ball drop on Main & Beaumont, Bash Along 17th Street

· Carnival attraction for children on 15th Street, near Sacred Heart Church

· Event site between Bicentennial and 12th and between Erie and Business 83

· Parking inside event site to close beginning at 7 PM

· 2 free Park-N-Ride sites available (old Civic Center, 10th & Exp 83 and old Walmart, 23rd & Nolana)

· 20 city buses will shuttle attendees to and from event

· Alcoholic beverages sold and consumed inside 17th Street venues and 2 beer gardens, only. Beer gardens at 17th and Chicago and at 16th and Beaumont. Only plastic containers allowed.


CITY OF MCALLEN