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Originally Posted by jsbrook
The purpose of the Lit Bros lighting/signage is not to look good.
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Agreed. It is to attract attention and add some liveliness to a dead zone of Market Street, which I think is important here. I think the lighting is perfectly appropriate for a commercial district, regardless of whether the building is historic or modern. The setting and the building's intended use are what is important.
In other words, such lighting would be inappropriate on the Parthenon, Notre Dame, or the Barnes, but for an old merchantile building on a commercial street it will add liveliness and animation in a place that really needs it. Lits was never intended to be a somber ivory mausoleum memorializing a sacred past.