{"id":3,"date":"2026-09-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor-com\/2026\/09\/27\/new-lights-hang-on-columbias-main-street-but-the-popular-light-canopy-is-down-is-it-coming-back\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T10:00:00","slug":"new-lights-hang-on-columbias-main-street-but-the-popular-light-canopy-is-down-is-it-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/27\/new-lights-hang-on-columbias-main-street-but-the-popular-light-canopy-is-down-is-it-coming-back\/","title":{"rendered":"New lights hang on Columbia&#8217;s Main Street, but the popular light canopy is down. Is it coming back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>After two years of planning, a new lighting solution brightens Main Street with 120 woven lanterns hung from hardwood trees at six intersections between Gervais and Laurel Streets. The $130,000 project, fully funded by a foundation, aims to enhance safety and ambiance. The popular light canopy above the 1600 block will return by late October for the holidays. Further lighting upgrades for mid-block areas are planned but not yet finalized.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/columbia\/news\/columbia-main-street-lighting-lanterns-canopy\/article_43d3c6bd-fc02-4138-a811-4f750160cb6b.html\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two years of planning, a new lighting solution brightens Main Street with 120 woven lanterns hung from hardwood trees at six intersections between Gervais and Laurel Streets. The $130,000 project, fully funded by a foundation, aims to enhance safety and ambiance. The popular light canopy above the 1600 block will return by late October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}