Flagpole installation inSpringfield, MA

Flagpoles in Springfield

The commercial capital of western Massachusetts: insurance and hospital employers, a rebuilt downtown and a manufacturing base along the river. We cover Springfield and the Hampden County area, including the Springfield Armory National Historic Site, the Quadrangle and Mattoon Street, Union Station, the MassMutual Center, Baystate Medical Center, Forest Park, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Connecticut River waterfront.

Wind here. Springfield sits in an inland, river-flanked 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. Springfield sits at the bottom of the range on this page, level with Worcester and Lowell, and the mapped number is not what anybody in this city asks about first. On 1 June 2011 an EF3 tornado crossed the Connecticut River into downtown and stayed on the ground for thirty-eight miles, and it is still the storm every conversation comes back to. We answer that plainly: a tornado is not what a design wind speed is drawn for, and nobody sells a pole that stands in one. What we can do is size the shaft and the footing to the adopted speed for the address and set the anchorage in undisturbed ground rather than backfill. Springfield also runs a long list of local historic districts under its own ordinance — Quadrangle-Mattoon, Ridgewood, McKnight and Forest Park Heights among them — so a pole in front of much of the city's best frontage is a review item before it is an order. And the riverfront at the foot of downtown has open water in front of it, which is not the sizing a street in the middle of the city gets.

Most of the people who call us from Springfield are insurance and corporate offices, hospital and medical campuses, city and state buildings, manufacturers, churches and parish schools, veterans posts and downtown retail.