Flagpole installation inSyracuse, NY

Flagpoles in Syracuse

Central New York's hub: county and state offices, two large campuses on the hill above downtown, hospitals, and a distribution belt where the interstates cross. We cover Syracuse and the Onondaga County area, including Clinton Square and Armory Square, Hanover Square, University Hill with Syracuse University and Upstate Medical, the Near West Side, Onondaga Lake and the lakefront, Destiny USA and the I-81 and Thruway corridors.

Wind here. Syracuse sits in an inland and 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. What is under Syracuse decides more here than the wind does. The north end of downtown is drained marsh: the outlet of Onondaga Lake was cut through in 1822 for the canal, the level of the lake dropped, and the wetland that covered those blocks dried out. Along the southwest shore of the lake the Solvay waste beds are made ground, a century of soda ash works piled up, so a footing on either one gets designed rather than assumed. On top of that the elevated I-81 viaduct through the middle of the city is coming down and the streets around Almond are changing with it, so we check what the access looks like this month rather than what it looked like last year. And the snow is real here, well over a hundred inches most winters, which is why stainless hardware is standard on a Syracuse pole.

Most of the people who call us from Syracuse are county and city buildings, hospitals and medical campuses, university and school buildings, distribution and manufacturing operations, churches, veterans posts and downtown commercial frontage.