Trent Green. Marcus Allen. The late great Derrick Thomas. Some of the city’s most popular sports figures and celebrities have stepped into the spotlight on Thanksgiving night for the annual lighting of the Country Club Plaza.
Paul Rudd, Jason Sudeikis, Eric Stonestreet and Heidi Gardner have done it, too.
This year, Chiefs Kingdom will be represented once again when Chiefs CEO and chairman Clark Hunt and his wife, Tavia Hunt, will flip the switch and introduce a new era for the city’s most famous shopping district.
And yes, that giant switch does actually turn on all the lights.
The lighting ceremony, free and open to the public, begins at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 28, and ends at 8 p.m . The stage will be set up at the intersection of Nichols Road and Pennsylvania Avenue.
The Hunts will turn on the lights around 7 p.m., with fireworks following.
In July members of the Hunt family of Dallas — descendants of famed Texas oil tycoon H.L. Hunt — became the new owners of the Plaza , built in 1923.