Flagpole installation inAthens, GA

Flagpoles in Athens

A university town that is also its own county: the flagship campus, a compact downtown pressed up against it, and a pharmaceutical and research base behind both. We cover Athens and the Clarke County area, including the University of Georgia North Campus and the Arch, Broad Street and College Avenue, Sanford Stadium, the Classic Center, Milledge Avenue, Prince Avenue, Five Points, Cobbham, Boulevard and the Athens Perimeter.

Wind here. Athens sits in an upper Piedmont, inland area, which works out to roughly 110 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Athens and Clarke County merged in 1991 and have run as one government since, so there is a single rulebook from the campus edge out to the county line. Two parts of it bite. Local historic districts and individually designated landmarks are thick on the ground here and crowd right up against downtown and North Campus, so a good deal of the best frontage sits inside one and needs a certificate of appropriateness before any work starts. The county also runs its own tree ordinance, so a tree in the way is settled in an office rather than on the day. The ground is upper Piedmont red clay over rock, which holds a pole well, though on plenty of sites the auger finds rock before it finds depth.

Most of the people who call us from Athens are university and college buildings, hospital and medical offices, research and manufacturing plants, downtown hotels and restaurants, churches, school buildings, fraternity and sorority houses and county facilities.