Flagpole installation inTraverse City, MI

Flagpoles in Traverse City

A resort and regional service town on the bay: hotels, restaurants and marinas on the water, a large hospital behind them and an orchard and winery economy out on the peninsulas. We cover Traverse City and the Grand Traverse County area, including Front Street and the downtown blocks, the West Grand Traverse Bay waterfront and Clinch Park, the Village at Grand Traverse Commons, the Old Mission and Leelanau peninsulas, the Boardman River, the Munson medical campus and Cherry Capital Airport.

Wind here. Traverse City sits in a bay-front and exposed area, which works out to roughly 105 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 wind figure up here is the same moderate number as the rest of Michigan. The winter behind it is not. What actually reaches a flagpole is less the depth of snow on the ground than the freezing spray coming off West Grand Traverse Bay, which puts weight on the flag and on the halyard forty feet up, where nobody can get at it until the thaw. Anything on the bay, or out along the Old Mission and Leelanau shorelines, looks straight out over the water with nothing in the way, and gets sized on that rather than on a statewide figure. The Historic Districts Commission reviews exterior work in the city's historic districts, so a Central Neighborhood address goes to a meeting before it goes to a permit. This is also a town with firm views on height: the charter sends any building over sixty feet to a public vote, which tells you the local temper even though a flagpole is not a building.

Most of the people who call us from Traverse City are hotels, inns and restaurants, marinas and charter operations, hospital and medical buildings, wineries and orchard operations, city and county facilities, churches, schools and second-home owners.