Michigan Radio: Where's the the coolest cell phone tower?

A 150-foot tower has been disguised as a pine tree in Portage has been so well disguised as a pine tree that many motorists don't even kmow it's there. Michigan Radio reports the pole has brown "bark" and covered with fake bark, and the antennae have been concealed to look like pine branches. 
 
The tower/tree was installed by Verizon Wireless near the southwest corner of Oakland Drive and West Centre Ave. 
Excerpt: When they are properly maintained, these things look pretty believable. But it's expensive. To dress up one tower, it costs around $150,000, according to a story in Wired. That's almost four times as much as it costs to erect a normal cell phone tower. 
 
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Source: Michigan Radio
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