Flagpole installation inDes Moines, IA

Flagpoles in Des Moines

The state capital, and an insurance and financial city besides: a compact downtown, a skywalk system that keeps a good deal of it off the street, and the Capitol on its hill east of the river. We cover Des Moines and the Polk County area, including the Capitol complex and the East Village, Court Avenue, the Western Gateway and the Pappajohn Sculpture Park, Gray's Lake, the Principal Riverwalk, Drake University, the Iowa State Fairgrounds and the office campuses out on the freeway loop.

Wind here. Des Moines sits in a flat central Iowa urban 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. The Capitol complex is state ground, and a building the state owns is held to the state building code, not to whatever Des Moines enforces on everyone else. Different rule book, different desk, and worth starting early. Downtown then adds something no other Iowa city has: four miles of skywalk crossing the streets a storey up, so on a good many blocks the fly zone has a bridge in it and the pole moves before it is ordered. The rivers are the last piece. The Des Moines and the Raccoon meet just below downtown, and in 1993 the Raccoon put the city water works under and left a quarter of a million people without running water for twelve days, so anything near either bank is planned as floodplain.

Most of the people who call us from Des Moines are insurance and financial offices, state and county buildings, hotels and downtown commercial frontage, hospitals, schools, churches, veterans posts and dealerships along the loop.