As paint jobs go, the smokestack at the old Columbus Municipal Light Plant is a tall order – 250 feet straight up, not a thing to stand on.
When finished in a blaze of yellow and black, it will serve as maybe the most distinctive billboard in Major League Soccer.
But how to clean and paint a 25-story, 107-year-old tube? A scaffold was ruled out – too high and too square. A worker basket could be hung from a crane, but the slightest wind could send it swinging. Scaffolding around the stack just wasn t feasible and hanging work baskets from a crane just wouldn t have been stable, said Brad Annan, who is managing the project for Municipal Light Plant owner Connect Realty, on behalf of the Columbus Crew, which is paying to transform the smokestack.
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