{"id":483430,"date":"2025-12-31T23:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/483430\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T23:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:19:11","slug":"fort-worths-sundance-square-prepares-for-new-years-eve-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/483430\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth’s Sundance Square prepares for New Year’s Eve celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fort Worth’s Sundance Square expects over 60,000 revelers for its largest New Year’s Eve celebration, featuring food, music and heightened security.<\/p>\n

FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 Sundance Square is gearing up for what organizers are calling the largest in-person New Year’s Eve celebration in Texas<\/a>, with more than 60,000 people expected to ring in 2026.<\/p>\n

“Hosting the largest in-person New Year’s event takes a lot of planning,” said Gregory Newman, music director for Sundance Square.<\/p>\n

The downtown entertainment district has been transforming in recent days as vendors, performers and security teams prepare for Tuesday night’s festivities.<\/p>\n

Among those setting up is Ossy Avila, chef of Knight Out Taqueria, who typically works crowds at AT&T Stadium during Cowboys games. This marks his first New Year’s Eve celebration at Sundance Square.<\/p>\n

“It has been days and days and days of nonstop work,” Avila said. “We start stacking one piece at a time until you create the whole tower.”<\/p>\n

Newman emphasized the event’s appeal: “It’s not the kind of celebration you’re going to want to see on your TV on the couch.”<\/p>\n


\nSecurity measures in place <\/p>\n

Fort Worth police and Sundance Square security are implementing safety protocols<\/a> for the expected crowd. Attendees can expect road closures and crowd control measures.<\/p>\n

Fort Worth Police and Sundance Security plan on working collaboratively to keep revelers safe. While at the same time, Fort Worth PD ramps up patrols across the city.<\/p>\n

“We have officers on site that the community will be able to see, police officers, police cars, but also we have a huge wave of undercover officers people don’t see,” said Daniel Segura of the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n

Authorities are warning against fireworks, shooting off handguns and impaired driving.<\/p>\n

“We are not going to tolerate any illegal activity on the roads or in the streets,” Segura said.<\/p>\n


\nLooking ahead <\/p>\n

For vendors like Avila, the celebration represents more than just a busy night. He has ambitious goals for 2026, including opening his own brick-and-mortar restaurant and earning a Michelin star.<\/p>\n

Artist Erik Gomez, who will be among those celebrating, also has aspirations for the new year.<\/p>\n

“As an artist, I would love to have a solo show at an art gallery. That’s one of my biggest goals this upcoming year,” Gomez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth’s Sundance Square expects over 60,000 revelers for its largest New Year’s Eve celebration, featuring food, music…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":483431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-483430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115816743964978326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}