You could keep the 4' x 4' eye bolt footprint as designed.
Simply build your layout's framework so each of those cables go straight down, and each eye bolt passes through a section of your 2 x 4 framework. That way, don't have to re-engineer anything related to the lifting mechanism.
You could hide or "dress-up" the portions of those protruding eye bolts and cables that are close to the layout by turning them into telephone poles, cell phone towers, trees, buildings (cable through the roof), or something else decorative.