Ann Arbor is the new home to the Miss Michigan USA pageant.
The annual pageant plans to relocate to Ann Arbor after 10 years in Port Huron, according to the Port Huron Times Herald. The event, which draws some 3,500 attendees, will take place Sept. 10-11 at the University of Michigan's Power Center for the Performing Arts.
Pageant officials told the newspaper stalled contract negotiations
with the pageant's previous site in Port Huron prompted them to look
elsewhere. They also said Ann Arbor's "younger demographic" and "more
active night life" played a role in the decision, the Times-Herald
reported.
The move comes just weeks after Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih was crowned Miss USA. Fakih is the pageant's first Arab American and Muslim winner.
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