Fashion Meets Music Festival in line for $25,000 city grant
Columbus City Council plans to give organizers of the annual Fashion Meets Music Festival a $25,000 grant.
The money from the city's Neighborhood Initiatives fund will "assist the marketing of this event and to grow economic development in the city of Columbus and surrounding communities," according to council documents.
Council justified the expenditure by estimating the Labor Day festival's economic impact at $5.6 million in 2015, based on "the previous year's attendance and projections by...