holiday lighting display brightens public square with 375k energy-efficient bulbs

Lee Chilcote Thursday, December 12, 2013
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Public Square in downtown Cleveland will be even brighter and safer this holiday season thanks to new, energy-efficient lighting donated by GE Lighting and installed by the City of Cleveland.

The city has installed new lamp-top posts and LED lighting throughout Public Square. The new bulbs are twice as efficient as the old ones.

GE Lighting donated 372,000 long-lasting LED bulbs for the holiday display, and there are 56,000 individual lights on the holiday tree alone.

“With millions of people visiting Downtown Cleveland each year and thousands living and working in downtown, there are more feet on the street now than in decades,” noted Joe Marinucci, president and CEO of Downtown Cleveland Alliance, in a release. “With the new lighting, Public Square is now brighter and an even more inviting gateway to Downtown Cleveland.”

The new lighting was unveiled just in time for Winterfest last weekend.


Source: Downtown Cleveland Alliance
Writer: Lee Chilcote
Lee Chilcote
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Lee Chilcote is an award-winning journalist, writer, and author whose writing has been published in The Washington Post, Associated Press, National Public Radio, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Vanity Fair, Next City, Belt, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland Magazine, Crain's Cleveland Business, and many literary journals and anthologies. He has also written poetry chapbooks, produced plays, and won a grant from the Ohio Arts Council. He is founder and past editor of The Land, a local news organization reporting on Cleveland's neighborhoods, and founder and past executive director of Literary Cleveland. He lives in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood of Cleveland with his family.

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