Area businesses not sold on changes made to monthly cultural event

Despite significant changes made earlier this summer to improve Tucson's Downtown Saturday Night, area vendors still doubt how much the event is benefitting the downtown district.

Downtown Saturday Night was divided into two separate events earlier this summer in response to a decline in attendance and public input about the lessening quality of the event.

"The most major change (to Downtown Saturday Night) has been the repositioning of vendors to a new event," said Greg Loumeau, publicity coordinator for Downtown Saturday Night. "In other words, due to feedback from the public and merchants, they wanted the best things from Downtown Saturday Night - which were the performances, music, galleries and food - but didn't necessarily want vendors selling items at the same event."