Kroenke Sports Enterprises and Live Nation Concerts announced today that CityLights Pavilion will remain dormant this summer, and probably in 2008.
“A number of logistical issues will make CityLights Pavilion very difficult to operate over the next two summers,” Kroenke Sports executive vice president Paul Andrews said in a press release.
Cirque du Soleil’s “Corteo,” which opens June 22 under the blue-and-yellow Grand Chapiteau tent on the Pepsi Center grounds, will proceed as planned. The 2008 Democratic National Convention, also on Pepsi Center property, will bring thousands of additional people to the grounds on which CityLights Pavilion is located.
As for 2008, Kroenke spokesman Brian Kitts said it was unlikely there will be any shows then either.
“We will reevaluate that at the beginning of next year, but actually 2008 is a bigger problem because of the Democratic National Convention,” Kitts said. “It’s most likely that it will be not open next year.”
Kroenke Sports and Live Nation have jointly owned and operated the 4,500-seat open air concert venue for the past four summers.
