Mount Zion Lutheran Church wants to team with Lamar Advertising to erect an 83-foot high billboard on the north end of its lot to reach commuters on I-894.
Eight months after the city gave the Whitnall School District the OK to erect a giant digital billboard, officials will have to decide if a local church can strike a similar deal with an advertising company. Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 3820 W. Layton Ave., and Lamar Advertising will bring forward a proposal to install an 83-foot high billboard on the north end of the church’s lot to the city’s Planning Commission on Jan. 8. The proposed billboard would be seen by commuters on Interstate 894, which runs perpendicular to the north end of the church’s lot. The billboard – 13 feet higher than the one at Whitnall High School and 23 feet taller than that at the city’s Division of Public Works garage – would have digital advertising on its west …
A billboard that has permanently displayed nature scenes for 13 years will feature real advertising in the near future after the city changed a long-standing agreement with the advertising company that owns the billboard.
Greenfield’s permanent winter will be no longer. On Wednesday, the city’s Common Council voted in favor of changing a long-standing agreement with Clear Channel and previous advertising companies that required a west-facing billboard on the eastbound Interstate 894 on-ramp on 60th Street to portray only nature scenes. For approximately 13 years, thanks to an agreement between Eller Media Company (which has since merged with Clear Channel) and the City of Greenfield, the west side of the billboard, or the side that faces 60th Street, has been a nature scene while the side facing the interstate has been used for typical advertising. For a long time, however, the billboard has not been changed from its current winter scene. The council voted …
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robert heule
9:28 am on Saturday, January 5, 2013
Spring plans: When the weather becomes more comfortable, there may be overpass demonstrations displaying messages to travelers asking them to boycott businesses who advertise on Rush Limbaugh's sponsor Clear Channel's light pollution billboard on I-894 near 51st St. more ›