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2014 Plymouth Ice Festival (Post Polar Vortex) – This Weekend January 10-12th

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CAM00901The 2014 Plymouth Ice Festival is coming this weekend January 10th through 12th in Downtown Plymouth centered around Kellogg Park. You’ll be able to see amazing ice sculptures throughout downtown – plenty of fun for the whole family.  The Polar Vortex will be past us and temperatures should be back to reasonable highs.  For more information, go to www.plymouthicefestival.org.

The Ice Festival is one of several street festivals in Downtown Plymouth that take place throughout the year. The area is very walkable with plenty of parks, shops, restaurants, and entertainment – along with plenty of parking. Plymouth also has beautiful residential tree-lined streets with lots of gorgeous historic homes making it one of the area’s prettiest small towns. If you want to learn more about buying or selling a home in Plymouth, please visit our official homepage at www.bobbake.com.

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2013 Art in the Park, Plymouth MI set for July 12-14

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The 2013 edition of Art in the Park is coming this weekend to downtown Plymouth. Since the Green Street Fair didn’t happen this year, Art in the Park is the first big downtown event of the year.  As usual, there will be plenty to see, do, and buy as long as the weather co-operates.  We’ve gotten our fair share of rain already this summer so the forecast is looking very positive. One of the great things about Plymouth is how walkable the City is – not just the downtown.  We see many visitors park in the neighborhoods and walk downtown to the fair. And for this event, most of the downtown roads will be closed and the streets lined with vendors from around the country. There are even plenty of garage sales timed to coincide with this event for  more shopping nirvana. For more information about Art in the Park, you can visit their website at www.artinthepark.com.

2013 Plymouth Ice Festival – January 18-20 in Downtown Plymouth MI

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The 2013 Plymouth Ice Festival is coming January 18th through 20th in Downtown Plymouth centered around Kellogg Park. You’ll be able to see amazing ice sculptures throughout downtown – plenty of fun for the whole family.  Hopefully, the weather will cooperate and we’ll get some colder temps for the ice sculptors! For more information, go to www.plymouthicefestival.org.

The Ice Festival is one of several street festivals in Downtown Plymouth throughout the year. The area is very walkable with plenty of parks, shops, restaurants, and entertainment – along with plenty of parking. Plymouth also has beautiful residential tree-lined streets with lots of gorgeous historic homes making it one of the area’s prettiest small towns. If you want to learn more about buying or selling a home in Plymouth, please visit our official homepage at www.bobbake.com.

2012 Art in the Park, Plymouth MI set for July 13-15

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The 2012 edition of Art in the Park is coming this weekend to downtown Plymouth.  With somewhat cooler (relatively speaking) weather forecast, the event promises to be another success.  We’ll likely have plenty of things to see, buy, and do as the entire downtown becomes a pedestrian area with streets lined by vendors from around the country. For more information about Art in the Park, you can visit their website at www.artinthepark.com.

2011 Art in the Park, Plymouth MI

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The 2011 edition of Art in the Park was another success with crowds of shoppers enjoying warm and dry weather throughout the entire weekend. Downtown streets were lined with vendors from around the country as visitors from across Metro Detroit flocked to Plymouth once again. The offerings this year included just about everything you could imagine and some that you couldn’t such as the huge Lego displace in Kellogg Park.  

2011 Plymouth Green Street Fair, May 6-8, 2011, Downtown Plymouth

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Update: May 4th, 2011:  I’ve updated the dates for the 2011 Green Street Fair.

Update: April 30th 2010: It was nice and warm this evening (and a little windy) – perfect for enjoying a walk into town to the 2010 Green Street Fair. There was live music, food, plenty of booths with everything from recycled Coke can art to rain water cistern systems. For the kids, there was a petting zoo, the cardboard village, and even a cookie decorating station!

The 2010 Plymouth Green Street Fair will be held on April 30th, May 1st & 2nd. This environment focused Fair offers something different for everyone. Everything from hybrid cars to organic food and everything in between. With consumption and production down due to the economy, we’ve actually seen more interest in Sustainability – especially when it saves people money! Visit the official homepage at www.greenstreetfair.com.

The Green Fair is one of several street festivals in Downtown Plymouth throughout the year. The area is very walkable with plenty of parks, shops, restaurants, and entertainment. There’s no need to drive long distances and park a mile away just to do your shopping. Plymouth also has beautiful residential tree-lined streets with lots of gorgeous historic homes making it one of the area’s prettiest small towns. You can walk or bike most anywhere and there are lots of parks for the children too. If you want to learn more about buying or selling a home in Plymouth, please visit our official homepage at www.bobbake.com.

Plymouth Ice Festival 2012 – Downtown Plymouth Michigan

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Kellogg Park, Plymouth Ice Festival

The 2012 Plymouth Ice Festival is here! January 20-22nd in Downtown Plymouth centered around Kellogg Park, you’ll be able to see amazing ice sculptures throughout downtown – plenty of fun for the whole family. There’s even a cross country skiing course! The weather couldn’t be better so for more information, go to www.plymouthicefestival.org.

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The Ice Festival is one of several street festivals in Downtown Plymouth throughout the year. The area is very walkable with plenty of parks, shops, restaurants, and entertainment – along with plenty of parking. Plymouth also has beautiful residential tree-lined streets with lots of gorgeous historic homes making it one of the area’s prettiest small towns. If you want to learn more about buying or selling a home in Plymouth, please visit our official homepage at www.bobbake.com.

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Plymouth’s Art in the Park 2009 is as Big as Ever

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IMG00203-20090712-1149IMG00205-20090712-1154It’s that time of year again when downtown Plymouth streets are blocked off, white tents spring up, and parked cars clog all the neighborhood roads. Art in the Park is back and as strong as ever with vendors selling their goods as far as the eye can see. It was a good day for everyone – including the kids on our street selling lemonade and homemade cookies. Hopefully all the sellers and buyers did as well today too!IMG00198-20090711-1006

Frozen at the 2009 Plymouth International Ice Sculpture Festival:

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This past weekend was Plymouth’s annual ice festival.  Temperatures as low as single digits (Fahrenheit) were had, turning all of the festival-goers into moving ice sculptures.  Friday was a warm blast into the upper 30’s, which caused the sculptures to melt a bit and become cloudy as they froze again as the temps plunged on Saturday.  Luckily, there were blue skies all weekend though, which beckoned people to brave the cold and later regret it.  Late Saturday, we walked down from our neighborhood with a couple other families with kids 5 and under.  We were the only ones with a stroller for our kid (Oscar, age 4) and boy were we glad to have it!  The other parents had to carry their kids at various times – kids really too big to comfortably carry, especially in sub-freezing temps.  We made it down there, did a loop through the park and quickly returned back to our hood with kids in tow.
A side benefit of Plymouth’s many festivals is that we get a lot of out of town people driving through our neighborhood.  Some park here and walk to the fest.  This is good for real estate because it points out how close our neighborhood is to the restaurants, stores and goings on in the town of Plymouth.  Right now, we have two listings in Hough Park, our hood, and they are located on Maple Street, a street lining the block of wooded parkland which is the actual “Hough Park” within our hood.  During the Ice Fest, the feature sheets boxes we have in front of those homes were quickly depleted.  Hopefully they have not already landed in recycle bins, but are serving a higher purpose.
Today I watched as the city’s crews took away the stands from the ice sculptures that had somehow been toppled over and broken.  The rosy cheeks, hot chocolate stands, and ice sculptures will return again next January!  For now, we’ll stay warm until the mercury rises.
– Carrie