For months, it appeared that Santa Fe Drive’s landmark annual event wouldn’t happen.
City officials were turning down requests to close the street to automobiles for this year’s edition of First Friday Art Walks, which draws thousands of pedestrians to the street for one night each summer.
With the event rapidly approaching, organizers still didn’t have a road closure permit as of February, panicking business owners along Santa Fe.
But in the end, local organizers won over city officials, and the event went forward as usual over the weekend. The street was closed to traffic on Friday and large crowds flocked again to Santa Fe…