Downtown Asheville, it’s time to step up your game in light of Moogfest

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Fan Fare, a Reuters blog, makes a few cogent points about this most recent edition of Moogfest, in the context that the music fest is a great economic engine:

Of course, the gathering of thousands of rockers, even of the electronic-obsessed variety, creates problems of its own for a city as well equipped to handle them as Asheville. For instance, the town has little in the way of public transportation. It also has woefully few downtown eateries open late in the evening. The combination made for visibly unsatisfied crowds after the music ended on Friday and Saturday nights.

There were other lost opportunities, too. Despite the crowds milling around town, many galleries and local shops didn’t bother to extend their opening hours. Most perplexing of all, the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center downtown decided for whatever reason not to extend its opening hours to include Sunday.