Celebration
The Motor City New Year’s Eve celebration, including The Drop and the Kids’ Drop, is the culmination of the ideas and passion of four team members who all either live or own a business in the city of Detroit and see an unmet need and opportunity in the midst of Detroit’s continuing renaissance. This Motor City New Year’s Eve team is proud to bring Detroit and its metropolitan area a proper venue for celebrating the coming New Year with style, substance, and a healthy dose of that famous spirit of Detroit.
And the team dedicates the Motor City New Year’s Eve celebration to that spirit of Detroit and you, the reveler. It’s your event. Join us this New Year’s Eve in celebration of a New Year for a New Detroit!
Symbolism
New Year’s Eve celebrates the sense of rebirth we all feel with the start of a new year, and what better symbolizes rebirth than Detroit? During the Drop, the illuminated D-Burst sculpture is lowered as thousands of Metro Detroiters count down to the New Year. Downtown Detroit is a breathtaking backdrop to this annual tradition, providing a link to Detroit’s proud past, while the D-Burst evokes a bright New Year and even brighter future.
The Motor City New Year’s Eve team believes that there is no better place to celebrate the New Year than in the spiritual heart of the city, where people of all ages, colors, and creeds gather from the Detroit metropolitan area and beyond.
Eight years ago, a group of young Detroit entrepreneurs teamed up to create a version of
New York’s famed New Year’s Eve Times Square celebration for Detroit.
This event was initially created as the premier bookend to the holiday season, which Detroit kicks off
with the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, followed by the tree lighting at Campus Martius.
The DROP now rounds these out with a grand finale.
From the beginning, we felt it was vitally important to give Detroit and the
surrounding metropolitan area a proper venue for celebrating the New Year with style, substance,
and a healthy dose of that famous Detroit spirit.
The Drop is dedicated to the spirit of Detroit…