Municipal Light Plant smokestack to serve as symbol for the Crew
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," ...
Source: dispatch.com