Flagpole installation inKalamazoo, MI

Flagpoles in Kalamazoo

A medical-device, pharmaceutical and brewing town with two campuses inside it, a walking main street and a large hospital system, sitting on I-94 halfway between Chicago and Detroit. We cover Kalamazoo and the Kalamazoo County area, including the Kalamazoo Mall and downtown, Bronson Park, the Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo College campuses, the Stuart and South Street historic districts, the Vine and Edison neighbourhoods, the Arcadia Creek festival site and the pharmaceutical and device plants out toward Portage.

Wind here. Kalamazoo sits in an inland, sandy and sheltered 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. Kalamazoo has several local historic districts, Stuart and South Street among them, and exterior work inside one goes to historic district review before the permit does. Downtown, the Kalamazoo Mall is a pedestrian street rather than a road. It opened in 1959 as the first outdoor pedestrian mall in the country, and a pole on it is a paving and access problem before it is an engineering one. The ground is the opposite of Detroit's, loose and thirsty where the lake plain is heavy and wet, and down in the river valley the water table can arrive before the depth does. That is a pump and a different footing, not a surprise on the day, provided somebody looks first.

Most of the people who call us from Kalamazoo are hospital and medical campuses, university and college buildings, pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, breweries and downtown restaurants, school districts, churches, city facilities and veterans posts.