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Holiday Lighting Program

The 2008 holiday shopping season kicked off with the unveiling of new, brighter strands of LED lights adorning trees throughout the downtown retail area Nov. 13. The new "green" lights are more numerous and more sustainable than ever before.

Downtown property owners, which fund the lighting program, invested in 22,000 strands of new LED lights for the roughly 700 trees along 70 blocks in the retail core.

The energy savings from the LED lights totals 320,000-kilowatt hours, enough energy to power the 27-story Fox Tower office building for approximately two weeks. Additionally, Pacific Power and Portland General Electric, the electric utilities serving the downtown area, arranged for the renewable energy credits to green the program. The Standard also purchased the Business Energy Tax Credits, which was critical to the affordability of the program. The lights will remain up through January 30.

The Alliance manages the annual tree lighting program on behalf of property owners in the downtown Business Improvement District, who cover the full costs of the lights installation, maintenance and electricity costs. Begun in 2002, the downtown holiday lighting program is one of the largest tree-lighting programs in the nation.

For the fourth year in a row, the Alliance is contracting with A Light Up Company of Beaverton. The company removed the old lights, which have been recycled, and installed the new LED light strands. The company uses installation techniques that are overseen and approved by the Urban Forestry Department to ensure no damage is done to the trees during the installation process. If you have any questions regarding the program, contact: holidaylighting@portlandalliance.com or call 503.224.8684. Happy Holidays!