Flagpole installation inPhiladelphia, PA

Flagpoles in Philadelphia

Pennsylvania's largest city: rowhouse blocks, a Center City office core, universities and hospitals, and a working river port. We cover Philadelphia and the Philadelphia County area, including Center City and Market Street East, Old City and Society Hill, University City, Rittenhouse Square, Fishtown and Northern Liberties, the Navy Yard and the Delaware River waterfront.

Wind here. Philadelphia sits in a dense urban, Delaware Valley 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. Philadelphia is the one place in Pennsylvania where the wind figure is set by local law instead of read off a map: the city code puts a floor of 115 mph under ordinary buildings, which is where the rest of the state sits anyway. Review is the bigger constraint. Thousands of properties are city-designated or contribute to a historic district, and exterior work on any of them needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Philadelphia Historical Commission before Licenses and Inspections will issue the permit. Access is the other one. Rowhouse streets are narrow, and Center City sites often sit over vaults or structured parking, which turns a straightforward auger hole into an engineered foundation. Tell us the block and we will tell you which of the two you are up against.

Most of the people who call us from Philadelphia are offices and hotels in Center City, universities and hospitals, churches and synagogues, union halls, funeral homes, rowhouse conversions and Navy Yard tenants.