The new overhead structures on Santa Fe will be decked out in lights Saturday. Salina Post file photo
It's a celebration for a nearly completed project.
The downtown streetscape project on Santa Fe Avenue was substantially complete on Friday. The final completion of Campbell Plaza, the Walnut Street intersection, and various landscaping items will be complete in early 2020.
To celebrate the conclusion of this important project, the city manager, city commission, Salina 2020, Salina Downtown Inc., the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce, and Smoky Hill Construction, LLC (contractor) will conduct a plaque dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony at Philips Plaza, (between Iron Avenue and Ash Street on Santa Fe Avenue, on Saturday at 4:30 p.m.
The four overhead structures located on Santa Fe Avenue will be lit with colored lights for the first time at 6 p.m. to coincide with the beginning of the Parade of Lights. The parade route will be on Santa Fe Avenue, beginning at Elm Street then commencing south to Prescott Avenue.