“We’ve asked the question ‘Should First Night continue in the same model that it is? Or should that evolve and change as downtown as a destination has changed?’ So we have begun some early conversations, hoping to get more feedback as the event concludes and into early next year to kind of see how that should be shaped differently.".  

Gillberg says this year’s event incudes some new activities such as the Akron Video Game Truck and Akron Digital Media Center.