Our vision is to be a premier venue and meeting space for outdoor cultural, musical, entertainment, and special events. For decades, Hart Plaza has hosted crowd pleasing public gatherings, music and ethnic festivals on a 14-acre site between the Detroit River Walk and Jefferson Avenue. Significant public artwork and murals dot the space. The plaza’s central feature is the Horace E. Dodge and son Memorial Fountain designed by Isamu Noguchi. Transcending, (creators David Barr and Sergio De Guisti) to the west is a large, circular sculpture is dedicated to the Labor Movement. A statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (Stan Watts, creator) reminds the public he first proclaimed, “I Have a Dream,” here in Detroit, not Washington DC.  A memorial to the Underground Railroad, Gateway to Freedom (creator Dwight Edward) overlooks the river towards a sister statue in Windsor, Canada. The plaza was named for US Senator Philip A. Hart (1912-1976), a dedicated public servant and Detroit advocate serving from 1959-1976. Hart Plaza is on the National Register of Historic Places.