The Metro Detroit festival is moving from Pontiac to Royal Oak in 2010.Pontiac wanted a $100,000 fee from the festival to host.
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Arts, Beats & Eats festival set to move to Royal Oak
BY BILL LAITNER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
It’s official: The Arts, Beats & Eats festival that for the last 12 years was in Pontiac will move in 2010 to Royal Oak.

At an announcement celebration this afternoon at Sangria restaurant in Royal Oak, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson predicted that the event would draw 450,000 people next year – exactly double the attendance reported in Pontiac over the four-day Labor Day weekend event this year.
“I’m not here at all to cast any aspersions on Pontiac,” Patterson said. “The people there are really crestfallen” about losing the festival to Royal Oak.