Flagpole installation inGrand Rapids, MI

Flagpoles in Grand Rapids

The second city of Michigan and the commercial centre of the west side: a hospital and research corridor up on the hill, offices and restaurants downtown below it, and furniture and food manufacturing wrapped around both. We cover Grand Rapids and the Kent County area, including the Michigan Street medical corridor, Monroe Center and Rosa Parks Circle, Heritage Hill, the Grand River downtown, Eastown, the Wealthy Street and Creston corridors, the Grand Valley State Pew campus and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum.

Wind here. Grand Rapids sits in an inland, lake-effect snow-prone area, which works out to roughly 105 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. Heritage Hill is a big local historic district by any measure, and the Historic Preservation Commission approves how anything on a street elevation there will look before the building permit follows. Wind is almost never the argument on a Grand Rapids job. Lake Michigan is. The city sits in the lake-effect belt, and what that means for a flagpole is a soaked flag frozen solid and a pulley that will not turn until March, so stainless fittings and a halyard run inside the shaft cost less than the service call. The Michigan Street hill is built up steeply enough that a plaza up there can turn out to be a slab over structured parking, and a footing on a slab has to be drawn rather than dug.

Most of the people who call us from Grand Rapids are hospital and research buildings on Michigan Street, downtown offices and hotels, furniture and food manufacturers, church and school campuses, breweries and restaurants, city facilities and neighbourhood associations.