New steel lighting columns installed at Solvang Festival Theater

By Santa Ynez Valley Star Staff · Tue Mar 17 2020

Big milestone completed in $4.7 million rebuilding project Staff Report While taking advantage of a break in the weather on Thursday morning, construction crews installed six new steel lighting columns at Solvang Festival Theater, utilizing a 350-ton crane to accomplish a huge milestone in Theaterfest’s $4.7 million rebuilding project. The columns, each weighing 12,000 pounds and rising more than 50 feet above the theater, will provide for safer, structurally sound lighting towers for the theater and for the lighting technicians who operate from the top of the towers during performances. The Theater rebuilding project, which commenced in September and is slated to be completed this July, will accomplish these key elements: