Flagpole installation inMinneapolis, MN

Flagpoles in Minneapolis

The commercial centre of the state: a downtown of head offices and towers, a rebuilt riverfront, two large hospital systems and a university on both banks of the river. We cover Minneapolis and the Hennepin County area, including Nicollet Mall and the skyway core, the North Loop warehouse district, the Mill District and St. Anthony Falls, Dinkytown and the University of Minnesota, Uptown and the Hennepin Avenue theatre blocks.

Wind here. Minneapolis sits in a dense urban and channelled 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. Minneapolis designates landmarks and historic districts of its own, and if your address is one of them the Heritage Preservation Commission signs off the exterior work before anything is built. Its calendar, not ours, sets when a pole can go in. The Warehouse blocks in the North Loop and the ground around St. Anthony Falls are both districts, and a good deal of the downtown work sits inside one or the other. Underneath, the Platteville limestone that caps the falls runs close to the surface on the older streets near the water, so a 3 ft 6 in frost hole there can end in rock rather than soil. Downtown then adds what no map figure carries: the towers speed the wind up at street level between Nicollet and Marquette, so those sites get sized above the mapped number rather than at it.

Most of the people who call us from Minneapolis are downtown offices and hotels, hospital and university buildings, condominium and apartment associations, churches and synagogues, schools, union halls and North Loop warehouse conversions.