Flagpole installation inGreenwich, CT

Flagpoles in Greenwich

A town of two halves: shoreline villages and a financial-services high street below, four-acre backcountry running up to the New York line above. We cover Greenwich and the Fairfield County area, including Greenwich Avenue, the Bruce Museum and the Greenwich Hospital campus, Old Greenwich, Riverside, Cos Cob, Byram and Belle Haven, Greenwich Point, the private school campuses off North Street and the backcountry lanes around Round Hill Road.

Wind here. Greenwich sits in a sheltered coastal 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. Greenwich reviews how a thing looks, not only how big it is. The Architectural Review Committee takes exterior work on commercial and multi-family applications and advises Planning and Zoning on whether it sits properly against the street, so a pole on the Avenue, at a club or on a school campus is a design conversation before it is an engineering one, and we come to it with elevations rather than a catalogue page. Underneath, the town is thin glacial till over gneiss ledge, and in the backcountry the auger stops early often enough that we price the hole as rock until a boring says otherwise. At 120 mph Greenwich sizes no higher than Hartford does, because Long Island sits square across the Sound at this end, so salt is the reason to spend here and not speed. Belle Haven, Byram, Riverside and Old Greenwich down to Greenwich Point are treated as open ground all the same, whatever the tree cover a mile inland suggests.

Most of the people who call us from Greenwich are financial and family offices on and around Greenwich Avenue, private schools and clubs, houses of worship, yacht and beach clubs, hospital and medical buildings, estate properties and homeowner associations.