Flagpole installation inSouth Bend, IN

Flagpoles in South Bend

A university and hospital city on the St. Joseph River, rebuilt on the ground the car plants left behind. We cover South Bend and the St. Joseph County area, including the downtown riverfront and Century Center, the East Bank, Eddy Street Commons, the Chapin Park and West Washington historic districts, Ignition Park on the old Studebaker land, and the Notre Dame, Saint Mary's and Holy Cross campuses just over the city line.

Wind here. South Bend sits in an inland but snow-loaded 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. Notre Dame, Saint Mary's and Holy Cross are not in South Bend. The campuses sit in unincorporated St. Joseph County, so the permit and the inspection come from the county rather than the city, while the historic preservation commission is a joint city and county body and covers both. Tell us early which side of the city line you are on, because it decides who signs the paperwork. Winter is the other half of a South Bend job: the city takes around sixty inches of snow in an average year off Lake Michigan, and the ground stays frozen long enough that a footing ordered in January is a footing poured in March. Concrete does not go into frozen ground, and we would rather say so at the quote than in February.

Most of the people who call us from South Bend are university and college buildings, hospitals and medical offices, county and city facilities, parish schools and churches, manufacturers, veterans posts and downtown commercial.