Rochester’s program with Duke Energy to replace hundreds of lights with LED’s is brightening up the city and bringing audio with it.  Although, LED replacements have been sought for some of the new lights thanks to an interesting color variation.

Rochester Mayor Ted Denton says the effort downtown will include an improved look to go with the lights.

The mayor says downtown events will benefit from the speaker system.  Also, neighboring street traffic poles will receive an upgrade.

Mayor Denton says they have run into one issue that Duke is addressing.  Several lights have taken on a purple color.

So far, even the purple lights have maintained brightness and intensity while they await replacement.