The CWE Midtown Development Infrastructure Committee has chosen Architectural Area Lighting’s Providence light fixture for future pedestrian lighting projects in the CWE Midtown area.
If approved by the city, the fixtures will be installed along Taylor between Forest Park Avenue and Lindell later this year. CWE Midtown Development’s long-term goal is to install the Providence fixtures on streets that currently lack pedestrian lighting and to eventually replace existing lights with the Providence fixture.
Committee members chose the Providence, which features an indirect metal halide lamp, primarily for its ability to maximize night vision for pedestrians.
The Providence’s benefits are:
- greater peripheral vision
- consistent light levels
- excellent facial recognition
- superior color rendition
- light focused on the street and not up in the sky
A proposal to install the Providence light fixtures on Taylor will be submitted to St. Louis City’s Board of Public Service. The City must approve this light fixture in order to put it on St. Louis City streets.
The committee will choose between two poles currently used in the neighborhood — the octagonal poles found on West Pine and Laclede between Taylor and Kingshighway and the pink granitoid poles on Lindell and Sarah.
Choosing the fixture is the culmination of a process that involved a great deal of study by the Infrastructure Committee, with input from neighborhood residents and city officials. Two public meetings were held to present lighting options. At the first meeting last fall, more than 40 residents ranked five fixtures. At the second meeting, 11 residents came out on cold, rainy night to evaluate the lighting produced by five fixtures. We wish to thank committee members and those in the community who attended the public meetings.
To help choose the best lighting fixture for the area, CWEMD hired Randy Burkett Lighting Associates to conduct a lighting study. The study reported existing lighting conditions and recommended lighting goals for the neighborhood's residential and commercial streets.
Click here to read the lighting study.
Click here to see the Taylor Avenue lighting summary.
Click here to see survey results from the public meeting.
The Taylor Avenue Lighting Project is funded by:
|
Source |
Amount |
|
CWE South SBD |
$20,000 |
|
WUMC |
$20,000 |
|
CDBG |
$100,000 |
|
17th Ward - 2009 |
$185,685 |
|
Total |
$325,685 |