Flagpole installation inLexington, KY

Flagpoles in Lexington

The commercial centre of the Bluegrass: a very large university, a manufacturing and technology base, and several hundred thoroughbred farms wrapped around the edge of it. We cover Lexington and the Fayette County area, including downtown and the Rupp Arena district, the University of Kentucky campus, Keeneland and the Red Mile, the Kentucky Horse Park, Hamburg and the Man o' War Boulevard corridor, Gratz Park and the Northside streets, and the farm frontage out along Paris Pike and Versailles Road.

Wind here. Lexington sits in an inland, sheltered and karst-underlain area, which works out to roughly 115 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. Lexington drew the first urban growth boundary in the country in 1958 and still runs on it, so an address is either inside the Urban Service Area or out in the rural zone where the minimum holding is forty acres, and those are not the same job. A farm entrance on Paris Pike or Versailles Road has a quarter mile of paddock upwind of it and gets sized as open exposure however sheltered the drive looks. Underneath is the Inner Bluegrass, where the same limestone the farms sit on dissolves into sinkholes and caves, so we test the spot before we price the concrete. Exterior work inside an H-1 overlay district needs a certificate of appropriateness — written permission for the look of the thing — from the Board of Architectural Review, which sits once a month. Put that in the schedule rather than find it later.

Most of the people who call us from Lexington are university and school buildings, horse farms and equine operations, hospitals and medical offices, corporate and manufacturing campuses, distilleries, churches, county facilities and country clubs.