Flagpole installation inIowa City, IA

Flagpoles in Iowa City

A university town where the biggest employer is the university and its teaching hospital, wrapped around a small downtown of two and three storey storefronts and a pedestrian street. We cover Iowa City and the Johnson County area, including the Pentacrest and the Old Capitol, the downtown pedestrian mall, the Northside neighbourhood, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Kinnick Stadium, the arts campus on the Iowa River and the Highway 1 and Interstate 80 commercial frontage.

Wind here. Iowa City sits in a sheltered, low-lying riverside 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. Two rule books run inside these city limits. The campus and the hospitals belong to the Board of Regents, which makes them state property, and a state-owned building answers to the state building code rather than to the city's, so campus work runs to its own schedule and its own reviewer. On the city side the Historic Preservation Commission acts on applications for a certificate of appropriateness, and Iowa City zones conservation districts as well as historic ones, so a street that looks unremarkable can still be covered. Settle that before the pole is ordered rather than after. The pedestrian mall is the practical one: those blocks are closed to traffic, so the concrete, the auger and the pole all have to come in around that. And the arts campus stands on the Iowa River, which put water into nineteen university buildings in 2008, so anything close to that bank is treated as floodplain.

Most of the people who call us from Iowa City are university and hospital buildings, private schools, fraternities and sororities, churches, downtown storefronts and restaurants, apartment and condominium associations, medical offices and city and county facilities.