Contractors have begun putting in new lights at Mack Cook dinner Stadium in Downtown Lenoir. The lights will assist town convey extra exercise to the world and improve enhancements to the Historic Lenoir Excessive College Campus. The Metropolis Council permitted the mission in August final 12 months. Town was capable of increase all funds for the $213,522 mission by grants and personal donations.
Parks and Recreation Director Kenny Story mentioned the brand new lights will enable town to host night occasions corresponding to sports activities video games, live shows, neighborhood festivals. He added that town desires to make extra use of this area and the lights will assist make that occur.
Employees put in all 4 gentle poles. Every pole has 16 lights and every gentle has 232 LEDs. That is 14,848 LED lights that can shine in Mack Cook dinner Stadium throughout particular occasions. The contractor nonetheless wants to put in the facility, run all of the electrical energy, and set the lights to return on within the appropriate positions on web site. This work ought to be accomplished inside just a few weeks.
Along with the brand new lights, the council permitted the acquisition of two units of five-row aluminum bleachers for the stadium. The stands have been funded by federal Neighborhood Improvement Block Grant funds.
Mack Cook dinner Stadium is a part of the Campus at Historic Lenoir Excessive College. There’s a not too long ago bought property on campus that might be the LHS auditorium, gymnasium, marching band, industrial/masonry constructing, Mack Cook dinner Stadium, and the Farmers Market Pavilion on Harper Road. Final 12 months the workers began the method to rework and redevelop these properties into a brand new occasion venue in Lenoir City Centre. The campus would be the point of interest of the Metropolis’s Downtown Grasp Plan mission, which begins this month.
[News release and photos courtesy of City of Lenoir]
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