Stamford Heights & Lights Show Arriving for 2025 This Weekend
Popular Event Will Feature Rappelling Santa, Fireworks, and Tree Lighting
STAMFORD — A holiday gathering is set for the city on Sunday, December 7, with an arrangement of seasonal attractions for residents and visitors to enjoy. Starting at 5:00 pm, spectators will get to experience Santa and other beloved characters rappelling downtown and additional opportunities.
To kick things off, Santa, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the Grinch, and others will descend from the Landmark Tower’s 22-story exterior starting at 5:00 pm.
A press release from the Stamford Downtown Special Services District stated that attendees will then be invited to view a fireworks display that will be held on Broad Street followed by a tree lighting ceremony with holiday music at Latham Park on Bedford Street.
Parking will be available at Bell Street Garage, Landmark Garage (via Atlantic Street), Stamford Town Center, and Summer Street Garage.
For more information, visit the Stamford Downtown website here.
The event is presented by real estate company Reckson with additional support provided by Happyhaha.com, Hey Stamford!, Star 99.9, WEBE 108, and WICC.
Winter Lighting Program
In addition to the Heights & Lights festivities, Stamford Downtown announced an expanded Winter Lighting Program for the downtown neighborhood.
Produced by the Pearl River, New York-based Christmas Lighting Company, the display offers a vibrant landscape with almost 300,000 multi-color and warm-white LED lights for residents, workers, and visitors to view.
This year, several enhancements were made, including:
Decorative lamp posts and trees set up along Greyrock Place.
Enhanced décor around Bedford Street Garage, such as snowflakes illuminated at the main entrance and garland with twinkle lights at the secondary entrance and tunnel entry/exit by the exterior parking area.
Six traffic signal poles wrapped from base to arm in white and red in patterns to resemble candy canes.
A trio of oversized decorative light bulbs installed in the UConn Stamford raised vegetable garden.
Meanwhile, some returning elements and other aspects include:
Nearly seven dozen street trees covered with approximately 1,700 lights each along Atlantic, Bedford, Atlantic, Main, and Summer Streets.
Special lighting installed throughout Latham Park and Kiwanis Park.
Multi-color displays on two grand oak trees at the Ferguson Library and in Columbus Park, the latter of which features 63,000 lights.
Installations along North State Street between Atlantic Street and Washington Boulevard as well as on Broad Street at UConn Stamford, Target, and The Asher.
Festoon lighting across Clark Street leading to the Bell Street Garage.
The lighting program will last from mid-November through mid-March.
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