[OMS_MANAGERS] Holiday Lights on Buildings

Tue Jul 17 18:54:14 PDT 2018

In Albany, we have some ridge lights, snowflakes on light pole, a community Christmas tree and tree trunk lights on street trees.  

Ridge lighting – It is currently on just a few buildings and installed by those building owners or contractors they hired. We have a mix of single bulb styles and two shades of white (warm white and bright white). No LED tube lights (than goodness). Some are lit all year. Our Design Committee is working on a ridge lighting guide so we have recommended design standards to provide to building owners. The hope is that new ridge light installations will have a consistent look – approximate bulb spacing, size and color. Ideally, the guide will include a list of contractors willing to install ridge lighting on historic buildings. We hope to find funding at some point to provide subsidy to encourage more ridge lighting.

Snowflakes - Our large 6-foot snowflakes have been switched over to LED bulbs and the smaller 4-foot snowflakes for our new streetscapes are all LED (warm white C7). First Avenue streetscape has imported steel snowflakes. For our 2017-18 streetscape poles, we had matching 4-foot aluminum snowflakes manufactured locally by Crystal Valley Decorating in Lebanon, Oregon. We worked with them somewhat directly, but as they are a wholesale manufacturer the purchase order went through De Julio Displays <http://www.dijuliodisplays.com/> . Rita Rpruczinski <mailto:Rpruczinski at aol.com>  has been our rep and replacement bulb supplier for years.

Community tree - Until this year, we have been buying rolls of C-7 LED lights at places like Home Depot and Lowes for our big community tree. Some years it has been bright white (blueish), warm white or multi colors. A high percentage of light strings fail each year - sometimes after being stored and others while on the tree, disappointing. They were tiny LED lights with snap on covers to make them look like C7s. This year we are starting over with new commercial grade cords and screw in LED C7 bulbs purchased through De Julio Displays. These should last for multiple years like the lights do on the snowflakes. If individual bulbs fail, they can be replaced rather than throwing out 100 light strings.

Street Tree Trunks – Our Design Committee wraps 2-4 individual strings around the trunks of the street trees of 1st Avenue for many years. With the 2017-18 Streetscape project, we have something like 300 new street trees with power. I have purchased more brown cord LEDs in 2017 and again in 2018 in anticipation of expanding our lighting into part of the new area. These light are put up in fall and down in spring. Last year I purchased the lights online taking advantage of a discount code and free shipping. This year Rita was able to beat the online price so she got the order.

I hope this helps.

Thank you,

Lise Grato

Executive Director

Albany Downtown Association

126 SW Ferry Street

Albany, OR 97321

Email: director at albanydowntown.com

Phone: (541) 928-2469

Cell: (541) 905-2908

From: OMS_MANAGERS [mailto:oms_managers-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Sarah Lu Heath
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 5:22 PM
To: Oregon Main Street program managers <oms_managers at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Subject: Re: [OMS_MANAGERS] Holiday Lights on Buildings

We’re curious what type of LED’s you’re getting, particularly if you’ve been able to find very long strands?

Sarah Lu Heath

Executive Director

Astoria Downtown Historic District Association

No.1-12th Street, Suite 114

PO Box 261 

Astoria, OR 97103

503.791.7940

 <http://www.astoriadowntown.com/> www.AstoriaDowntown.com

From: OMS_MANAGERS [mailto:oms_managers-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of W Darin Rutledge, Executive Director
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:58 AM
To: Oregon Main Street program managers <oms_managers at listsmart.osl.state.or.us <mailto:oms_managers at listsmart.osl.state.or.us> >
Subject: Re: [OMS_MANAGERS] Holiday Lights on Buildings

We are going with new LED lights this season for that exact reason. Supposedly, they are more reliable, etc. 

We’re working with the city to finalize design, but KFDA manages setup/removal through a contract for services with the city. Banners/lights will be hung on our street light posts, and we’re looking at stringing some through the trees, as well. We do not plan to install any on buildings. Let me know if you’d like more info on the products that we’re looking at. 

Cheers!
Darin

From: OMS_MANAGERS <oms_managers-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us <mailto:oms_managers-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us> > on behalf of David Snider <dsnider at ci.sandy.or.us <mailto:dsnider at ci.sandy.or.us> >
Reply-To: Oregon Main Street program managers <oms_managers at listsmart.osl.state.or.us <mailto:oms_managers at listsmart.osl.state.or.us> >
Date: Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 11:49 AM
To: Oregon Main Street program managers <oms_managers at listsmart.osl.state.or.us <mailto:oms_managers at listsmart.osl.state.or.us> >
Subject: Re: [OMS_MANAGERS] Holiday Lights on Buildings

We do street trees here in Sandy, but not buildings.  Contracted out to company that does our flower baskets.  

 -- David C. Snider

Economic Development Manager

City of Sandy

39250 Pioneer Boulevard

Sandy, OR  97055

(503) 489-2159

 <mailto:dsnider at ci.sandy.or.us> dsnider at ci.sandy.or.us

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:02 AM Norah Owings <ddaprogrammanager at gmail.com <mailto:ddaprogrammanager at gmail.com> > wrote:

Do any of your organizations put up Holiday Lights on the buildings in downtown? If so do you contract out, have volunteers, or do the building owners do it? 

Also does anyone have a suggestion of string/tube/etc lights that they've used that don't go out in one season?

Thanks folks! 

Norah Owings

Program Manager

Dallas Downtown Association

ddaprogrammanager at gmail.com <mailto:ddaprogrammanager at gmail.com> 

(971) 701 1880

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