At the entrance to the event, a lemonade stand offered blueberry-lemon-vodka cocktails. During the tasting, planners tried the cocktail and it inspired the evening's overall theme. "[The catering team] came up with a couple lemon cocktails and we fell in love with that one," Kite said. "We started saying, 'At the after-party, we should have a hot dog stand, and we should have a newsstand, and we should have a bus stop.' All of these things just started to emerge in our conversations about what would be on an urban street if we could put it there [in the hotel]."
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