Plaza

The Plaza (often referred to as the Events Plaza or Town Tree) is the Town center piece in, replacing the plaza outside the Town Hall in previous games. The plaza holds the Town Tree which is planted at the beginning of the game by the player who becomes the mayor, during a ceremony to mark the occasion.

Events
Many events occur in the plaza. Bug-Off and the Fishing Tourney are two regularly occurring events that take place in the plaza, while special events such as New Year's Eve, Festivale and the Harvest Festival, take place once a year. Redd can be found inside his tent, selling paintings and sculptures in the plaza.

When there are no events happening in the town, villagers may be found by it, either sitting on the wall surrounding it once it is tall enough, or talking in the plaza.

Once the tree has grown to be a reasonable size, the player can sit on the wall of the town tree and recap the game's events (i.e. when you started the game, when you built public works projects etc.)

Town Tree
During the course of the game, the Town Tree will grow larger as the town develops. It grows over time, but other areas of game play will also have an effect. The more buildings that are constructed affect the growth of the tree, as well as items collected in the game to be exhibited in the Museum and time.

Other than the ceremony at the beginning of the game, events do not directly reference the Town Tree or involve it during the festivities.