{"id":70724,"date":"2025-12-04T07:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70724\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:17:16","slug":"grand-central-district-christmas-market-returns-friday-for-second-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70724\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Central District Christmas Market Returns Friday for Second Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Central District will host its second annual <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovetheburg.com\/grand-central-christmas-market-2025\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas Market block party<\/a> on Friday, Dec. 5, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Central Avenue&#8217;s 2300 and 2400 blocks will shut down to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s debut drew more than 60 vendors and 11 participating businesses across two blocks. European-style Christmas markets inspired the event, which came after Halloween on Central proved successful.<\/p>\n<p>Carol singers will perform this year, and characters will make appearances. Santa photos are scheduled, and Rapunzel shows up in holiday attire to entertain visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Foam snow also returns. The artificial snow lets guests experience a winter scene without enduring freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Local businesses will participate with themed events. Grand Central Brewhouse hosted an ugly sweater party last year. They turned their upper balcony into a ski lodge theme. Dog Bar, Cocktail, Par Bar, and Right Around the Corner also added themed elements.<\/p>\n<p>The market offers live music, mulled wine, themed drinks, sweets, and gifts. Shoppers can browse items from dozens of vendors throughout the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grand Central District will host its second annual Christmas Market block party on Friday, Dec. 5, from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[684,1186,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-70724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-events","tag-holidays","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\/70724","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=70724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}