Flagpole installation inBridgeport, CT

Flagpoles in Bridgeport

The largest city in the state and still a working one, with a deepwater port, a Long Island ferry slip and a long industrial waterfront being rebuilt parcel by parcel. We cover Bridgeport and the Fairfield County area, including downtown and Harbor Yard, Steelpointe Harbor, Seaside Park and Black Rock Harbor, the Barnum Museum, the port and the Port Jefferson ferry slip, the University of Bridgeport, the Bridgeport Hospital campus and the East Side industrial corridor.

Wind here. Bridgeport sits in a harbour-front industrial area, which works out to roughly 120 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. Bridgeport is largely a fill city, and that settles the foundation before anyone opens the wind table. The big waterfront parcels are former plant sites. Steelpointe alone is about fifty acres of former steel works and power station on the harbour, low enough to sit in a mapped flood zone, and on ground like that the spoil out of the hole is carted away rather than raked across the lawn. That belongs in the price from the start. The wind figure itself is an ordinary 120 mph, so a standard-wall shaft usually does the job and the money goes into finish and hardware instead. Seaside Park and the Black Rock frontage are the exception: they look straight out at the harbour mouth with nothing upwind of them, and a pole there is sized for open water rather than for the town figure.

Most of the people who call us from Bridgeport are port and marine businesses, manufacturers and warehouses, city and school buildings, hospitals, storefront congregations and parish churches, university and college buildings and waterfront developers.