{"id":18999,"date":"2025-10-24T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/18999\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:10:07","slug":"massive-street-festival-halloween-on-central-returns-to-central-avenue-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/18999\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive street festival Halloween on Central returns to Central Avenue this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">St. Pete\u2019s largest family-friendly open-air event, <a href=\"http:\/\/halloweenoncentral.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Halloween on Central<\/a>, returns for its fifth year this Sunday, October 26th, from noon to 5 p.m. And it\u2019s completely free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Once again, more than two miles of Central Avenue will close to vehicular traffic, from Dr. MLK Jr. Street (9th) Street to 31st Street, for a full day of festive fun in the heart of the Sunshine City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">With Central Avenue closed to cars, thousands of trick-or-treaters and festivalgoers can stroll, roll, and explore 22 blocks filled with candy stops, live entertainment, vendors, and costumed revelers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This year\u2019s celebration is presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/massive-68-billion-redevelopment-of-the-tropicana-field-site-proposed-by-group-of-local-leaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ARK Ellison Horus Baker Barrios<\/a> in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandcentraldistrict.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Grand Central District<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/edgedistrict.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EDGE District<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpete.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">City of St. Pete<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cHaving ARK Ellison Horus Baker Barrios as our title sponsor this year has helped remind us of what community and local is all about,\u201d said Roger Curlin, Executive Director of the EDGE Business District Association. \u201cWith attendance typically exceeding 100,000, this event brings residents and visitors together for the perfect all-community gathering.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Pete\u2019s largest family-friendly open-air event, Halloween on Central, returns for its fifth year this Sunday, October 26th,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-18999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}