New installation looking to light up Charlottetown's Kent Street
CBC
Discover Charlottetown is hoping a new display along Kent Street will help make the street a new destination for both locals and visitors.
The marketing firm is planning to install overhead cables which will run along the section of the street that's between Great George and Prince streets in the city's downtown.
Lightning and other objects would hang from the cables, with the decor changing every season.
"We'd love to have something colourful," Heidi Zinn, executive director of Discover Charlottetown, said. "It could be a Christmas wreath or bells at Christmas time. So really, it could depend. We'd love to be able to keep adding to the collection, so there's always a bit of an element of surprise when new seasons roll around."
The firm is aiming to get the cables installed this fall and get the first displays up before the Christmas holiday.
The City of Charlottetown has agreed to cover the cost of changing the decorations, which is estimated to cost between $10,000 and $40,000 per year.
"If there's any way that we can improve the look of our streetscape, I think it's beautiful," Ward 1 Councillor Alanna Jankov said. "I think it's beneficial to people coming and visiting our city, as well as people that are already presently residents of the downtown area."
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