No ball drop planned for New Year’s Eve in KC Power & Light District

Restaurants will offer specials

Updated: 10:07 PM CST Dec 30, 2020

No ball drop planned for New Year’s Eve in KC Power & Light District

Restaurants will offer specials

Updated: 10:07 PM CST Dec 30, 2020

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RESTAURANTS HAVE PLANS OF THEIR OWN. >> DROPPING THE CRYSTAL BOWL IN DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY LIKE NEARLY EVERYTHING ELSE IN 2020 WILL BE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR. >> BUT YOU CAN STILL COME OUT AND HAVE A SAFE SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE NEW YEARS EYE CELEBRATION. >> RACHEL SAYS THAT MEANS NO CELEBRATION INSIDE THE KC LIVE BLOCK AT POWER AND LIGHT THE — >> WITH THE MOST RECENT ROUND OF RESTRICTIONS, WE DECIDED IT WOULD BE BEST TO NOT DO ONE AT ALL. >>THE DISTRICT IS NOW FOCUSING ON THE INDIVIDUAL RESTAURANTS. ALL WILL BE OFFERING SOME SORT OF THEIR OWN NEW YEAR’S EVE PACKAGES. SHE SAYS THERE ARE STILL RESERVATIONS OPEN AND SOME ARE ALLOWING WALK UPS, THE BIG TV WILL BE ON, BUT THE DISTRICT WILL CLOSE AT 10:00. >> WE ARE HERE FOR KANSAS CITY,AND WE WANT TO DO WHAT IS BEST FOR KANSAS CITY AND THAT’S BEING SAFE. >> THE KC LIVE BLOCK USUALLY HOSTS AROUND 5000 PEOPLE FOR THE NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION WITH THE BALL DROP, CONFETTI CANNONS, AND EVEN BALLOONS. THEY SAY THAT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN THIS YEAR, BUT THEY HOPE IT RETURNS FOR THE 2022 CELEBRATION. >> IF WE’VE GOT TO HOLD OFF ON ONE NEW YEARS’S EVE SO WE CAN DO MORE EVENTS THIS YEAR AND A BLOW OUT NEW YEAR’S EVE NEXT YEAR, WE’RE GOING TO DO IT. >> MANY OF THE VENUES WILL ALSO HAVE TAKE HOME PACKAGES WITH FO

No ball drop planned for New Year’s Eve in KC Power & Light District

Restaurants will offer specials

Updated: 10:07 PM CST Dec 30, 2020

For the first time since opening 12 years ago, Kansas City’s Power and Light District will not be holding a New Year’s Eve celebration in the KC Live! venue.”We are here for Kansas City and we want to do what is best for Kansas City and that is being safe and being socially responsible and it’s better to be safe than sorry the holiday season for this New Year’s Eve,” said Rachel Waller, director of marketing for the Power & Light District.There are still some opportunities to celebrate. The restaurants there will be open and each will have its own New Year’s Eve specials. But there will be no ball drop this year and KC Live! will close at 10 p.m.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —

For the first time since opening 12 years ago, Kansas City’s Power and Light District will not be holding a New Year’s Eve celebration in the KC Live! venue.

“We are here for Kansas City and we want to do what is best for Kansas City and that is being safe and being socially responsible and it’s better to be safe than sorry the holiday season for this New Year’s Eve,” said Rachel Waller, director of marketing for the Power & Light District.

There are still some opportunities to celebrate. The restaurants there will be open and each will have its own New Year’s Eve specials. But there will be no ball drop this year and KC Live! will close at 10 p.m.