Broadway Halloween Parade saved after raising $26K in less than a week
DENVER (KDVR) — Less than a week ago, the popular Halloween parade down Broadway in the Baker neighborhood was close to being canceled – unless they raised $26,000 in less than a week.
Six days later, the parade is back on.
The Broadway Halloween Parade started in 2016 and within seven years, the parade grew to tens of thousands of people in attendance as dozens of floats head down Broadway from 5th Avenue to Alameda Avenue.
Last year, 30,000 people attended the parade according to organizers.
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Along with the parade’s growing audience came safety concerns from the Denver Police Department, who said the parade needed safety barricades to keep people off the street. The parade said that the barricades alone would cost around $26,000 – a sum that needed to be hit by Friday.
“We need a hero,” Luke Johnson, president of the Broadway Merchants Association, told FOX31’s Nate Belt on Aug. 31.
Luckily, people pitched in and raised the $26,000 just in time. On Friday, the parade announced that enough money was raised to keep the festivities going.
The parade will officially continue on for its eighth year down Broadway. On Oct. 19 at 6 p.m. spooky floats, bands, marchers and magicians will be out and about to watch, participate and celebrate an early Halloween.
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