Come late November, drivers and pedestrians along a four-block stretch of Connecticut Avenue NW will find themselves bathed in color and light.

Mayor Vince Gray today celebrated the end of a year-long project to install 1,360 LED lights in D.C. alleys.

An advertising agency is hoping to place eight more of those big LED billboards around Gallery Place, as the Washington Business Journal reported on Friday. Orange Barrel Media plans to submit applications this month to the D.C. Office of Planning for six electronic street kiosks and two 45-foot-tall vertical signs to be placed outside the Gallery Place complex. They would join the three big displays already up at the corner of 7th and H Streets…