BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – A new display is lighting up Birmingham’s skyline in honor of the Fourth of July.
According Regions Bank, the July 4th holiday lighting it up the headquarters towers on Wednesday night, July 24. The tradition began in the 1970s and originally began as Christmas lighting. However, over the years, other holidays have begun having lightings as well.
As part of the 250th anniversary of the United States, Regions commissioned a fresh design displaying the red, white and blue of the American flag on the north and south sides of the building and “USA” on the east and west sides of the tower.
Crews comb through floors of the skyscraper with cylinders called “gel sleeves” that are slid over the mounted lights above the windows. For the July 4th display, a grid showed which windows should get red sleeves or blue sleeves to make the designs.
Throughout May and June, teams worked their way through the building taking down the sleeves which made the golfer design for the Regions tradition and installing the sleeves for the July 4th display. Over 300 hours of work went into the display…