Lights out at Las Olas garage? Good riddance, neighbor says

Not everyone misses the glitzy light display on the city-owned garage on Las Olas Boulevard near Fort Lauderdale beach.

Leland “Lee” Pillsbury, who lives across from the garage on the west side of the Intracoastal Waterway, says he was thrilled when the lights went dark .

Pillsbury, 78, moved to a home on Castilla Isle with his wife in 1992. In 2007, they tore down the house and built a new one with 13,074 square feet now valued at $17.8 million. Pillsbury, a venture capitalist and native of Ithaca, N.Y., was exasperated by the flashing nighttime light display.

“When the lights were working, they shined into our bedroom windows, even with the curtains closed,” he said. “They put millions of LED spotlights shining off of it. It’s crazy.”

Pillsbury’s assertion that the garage had milli