Flagpole installation inTacoma, WA

Flagpoles in Tacoma

A deepwater port city with an industrial tideflats at its feet, a university branch downtown and a large military presence immediately south of it. We cover Tacoma and the Pierce County area, including downtown and the Museum District, the Thea Foss Waterway, the University of Washington Tacoma campus, the Stadium District, Point Ruston and Point Defiance, the Tacoma Dome, the Port of Tacoma tideflats and the Nalley Valley corridor.

Wind here. Tacoma sits in a salt-laden, port-industrial area, which works out to roughly 95 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. The tideflats are the thing to understand about Tacoma. The whole port district stands on the filled delta of the Puyallup River, dredged and filled since the 1800s into eight industrial waterways, and ground like that with the water table close under it wants a broader, deeper hole than the same job would need on the hill above. Uphill it is review rather than soil: the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission runs the local historic districts, so a pole at Old City Hall, on the North Slope or in the Wedge is looked at for height and placement before it is ordered. Commencement Bay puts salt in the air right across downtown, so the finish matters further inland here than people expect. And the port sites are far more exposed than a mapped 95 mph suggests, with nothing at all between the waterway and the pole.

Most of the people who call us from Tacoma are port and terminal buildings, warehouses and cold storage, hospitals, schools and university buildings, veterans posts, downtown hotels and offices, and municipal facilities.