Major New Year's Eve Celebration Announced for Downtown Cleveland

New Year’s Eve looks to be a blowout this year with Friday’s announcement of “Cleveland Rocks NYE 2015.”

Event sponsor the Ohio Homecoming Group announced the major downtown wingding Friday afternoon. The fest-like party will usher in 2015 at Mall B on St. Clair Avenue NE, across from the Global Center for Health Innovation, where Friday’s announcement was made.

Cleveland Rocks NYE 2015 will include a New Year’s Eve countdown, fireworks, beer garden, food trucks and more, according to coverage of the announcement in Cleveland.com/Northeast Ohio Media Group.

The big attraction will be the music, however, with Cleveland’s own Machine Gun Kelly, DJ E-V and Carlos Jones providing the entertainment.

“Downtown is going to be crazy,” promised Alonzo Mitchell III, managing partner of Ohio Homecoming, as quoted in Cleveland.com. “The party is going to start early at one end of the city and go late at the other.”

Encouraging unity in Cleveland is a stated mission of Ohio Homecoming, described in the article as “a young-professionals organization that hosts parties, concerts and charitable events.”

As luck would have it, downtown will be jumping even more than usual on Dec. 31, with the Cavaliers scheduled to play the Milwaukee Bucks that night at 7 p.m.

The first Cleveland Rocks NYE last year reportedly drew 12,000 to Public Square. The move to Mall B is a result of plans to overhaul the plaza area, the article said.

Gates for the ticketed event ($10) will open at 8 p.m. According to organizers, Cleveland Rocks NYE will be broadcast live on WOIO Channel 19, from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. For more details, go to ohiohomecoming.com, and for the complete article announcing the event go to the Northeast Ohio Media Group/Cleveland.com.