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Here's which streets in downtown Wilmington will be closed for the Azalea Festival

WHQR | By Grace Vitaglione
Published April 11, 2023 at 5:59 PM EDT
The parade on Saturday will go along 3rd Street downtown, closing off the area from 6:30am-12pm.

Most of Front Street in downtown Wilmington will be closed this weekend.

Starting Friday at 7 a.m. through Sunday at 6 p.m., Front Street will be closed between Red Cross and Orange Streets for the Azalea Festival's street fair.

Streets around an additional downtown block will also be closed — a block of Market, Dock, and North 2nd Street will be barricaded.

No through traffic will be allowed on the sections of Walnut, Grace, Chestnut, and Princess between Front and 2nd Streets.

Ben Schachtman

The parade will go along 3rd Street downtown on Saturday, closing off the area from 6:30 AM to noon.

There will be three parking decks for $10 a day, and street parking is free Saturday and Sunday, according to festival organizers.

2023 Azalea Festival Parade Staging Map by Ben Schachtman on Scribd
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Grace Vitaglione
Grace is a multimedia journalist recently graduated from American University. She's attracted to issues of inequity and her reporting has spanned racial disparities in healthcare, immigration detention and college culture. In the past, she's investigated ICE detainee deaths at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, worked on an award-winning investigative podcast, and produced student-led video stories.
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