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Sarasota News Leader January 25, 2013 Page 39 gives its permission and Wallenda indemnifies pressions," estimated Visit Sarasota County President Virginia Haley. the city in case of misfortune. "I've performed over city streets," said Wallenda. "Never have I worn a tether until that one time for ABC." When the network televised his wire walk over Niagara Falls last summer, it demanded he wear the safety harness. Wallenda planned the vista for maximum exposure of the city's bayfront and Sarasota Bay in the late morning sunshine. Wallenda's downtown deed will be broadcast live, bringing an enormous number of eyeballs worldwide to the Sarasota skyline. He will walk a wire stretched between a bayfront condominium on Gulfstream Avenue to a construction crane on the west side of the Tamiami Trail. The event is planned for next Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 10:30 a.m. "This is about showcasing this city to the world," he said. "The view is actually breathtaking." CITY VERSUS MUSIC Deputy City Manager Marlon Brown put downtown on notice Tuesday. The "Noise Police" are back. "We've been getting complaints from down"My guess is, it will be something in the town over amplified music," he said during his neighborhood of 50 to 75 million media im- report to the City Commission. Internationally known aerialist Nik Wallenda walks a wire between the roof of One Watergate and the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Sarasota on Feb. 4, 2010. Photo by Norman Schimmel