Yetman installed the fixtures at 100 North.
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Malinchak said a local electrician - Pete Yetman, owner of Performance ECM - will be trained with how to program the displays. It is done all over the country and has been very successful,” Carver said.Īllegrone Companies has expressed interest on some of its buildings as did Police Chief Michael Wynn for the Police Station. Lighting in the dead of winter is a wonderful thing. He had been asked about doing it by Hammerling more than a year ago. We’ve got 14 lights we’ll leave here for six months and anybody else who wants their buildings lit up,” Malinchak said.ĭavid Carver, owner of CT Management Group which owns 100 North St., was pleased with the display on his building. “We are going to leave them here with Berkshire Lightscapes for a period of time so each of the buildings could actually get to see their building mocked up as well. will be lit up but from there, the committee can move them to other buildings or spaces. Philips is leaving the 14 lights with Berkshire Lightscapes for the next six months to try on different buildings. There are an endless amount of possibilities,” said Cindy Malinchak, the northeast regional manager for Philips Lighting. You can coordinate them to music so if you had speakers out there, then the lights could actually move in sync with the music. “These were presets but you can change them at will. so the community, other businesses, and the committee can see for themselves what it would be like here. On Thursday, the group lit up the former Agricultural Bank building at 100 North St. The board found Philips Lighting and consultants Apex Lighting Solutions, which offered to let them try the lights out. So he formed the non-profit Berkshire Lightscapes last year to bring it downtown. “I started thinking whether Pittsfield, scaled to Pittsfield, could embrace lighting the street, storefronts, buildings,” Hammerling said. He wondered what it would take to have that in Pittsfield. Elie Hammerling was vacationing in Arizona when he saw private buildings and businesses all lit up with color kinetic.