Flagpole installation inNashville, TN

Flagpoles in Nashville

The state capital and a headquarters city for hospital companies, with a downtown that has been under a crane for a decade. We cover Nashville and the Davidson County area, including the State Capitol and the government blocks below it, Lower Broadway, SoBro and the Gulch, Music Row, Germantown, East Nashville, Green Hills, the Vanderbilt and Belmont campuses, MetroCenter and the airport corridor at Donelson.

Wind here. Nashville sits in an inland Central Basin, urban 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. Nashville and Davidson County share one government, so the permit, the zoning and the historic review all come out of the same building. Inside a historic or conservation overlay — Edgefield, Germantown, Lockeland Springs-East End and Richland-West End among them — the Metropolitan Historic Zoning Commission issues a preservation permit before anything is dug, and it has a view on height and finish as well as on placement. Underneath the city is the Central Basin: limestone close to the surface, with sinkholes mapped right across the county, so an auger here either stops early on rock or drops into a void that was on nobody's drawing. That gets settled before the base is priced. Downtown the harder problem is plainer than any of it, which is getting a truck and a forty-foot pole onto a working block between the cranes.

Most of the people who call us from Nashville are hospital and health company offices, hotels, state and Metro buildings, universities and private schools, churches, restaurants and bars on the tourist blocks, and new commercial frontage out along the interstates.