"We're going to celebrate one last time," Mayor Linda Gorton said, before visitors grabbed their champagne glasses. "We're going to have a toast."
Gorton, along with 250Lex co-chairs Eunice Beatty and Kip Cornett, looked back on the series of events around themed months — from arts to sports to homecoming.
"Lexington applauded things like community grant winners, winning writers, entrepreneur winners, culinary winners, commissioned music and art, a record-setting largest bourbon tasting ever, and the vote of being the number one city in the United States to visit during June of 2025," Beatty said.
Cornett added, while the celebration recognized an anniversary, he was interested in what the events would say about Lexington's future.
"We should all be extremely proud of this city, that this city has nowhere reached its potential," he said. "All of us working together, like we did this year, it we continue to do that... we're going to have a great future to look forward to."
The year-end gathering featured the unveiling of a special commemorative public art creation that will hang inside the Central Bank Center.