Britex Fabrics, San Francisco
Arrow completed the fabrication and installation of the Britex sign in San Francisco.
The sign is a replica of the original, which can still be seen on Geary. It had to be duplicated because Britex moved two blocks away and could not bring the sign to the new address.
The aluminum sign measures 20’ and weighs 1,200+ pounds. It is illuminated on both sides by double-tube neon letters and bulbs. The primary obstacle to the project was installation. Since the building’s façade could not be altered, holes were cut in the glass surface.
Arrow completed the fabrication and installation of the Britex sign in San Francisco.
The sign is a replica of the original, which can still be seen on Geary. It had to be duplicated because Britex moved two blocks away and could not bring the sign to the new address.
The aluminum sign measures 20’ and weighs 1,200+ pounds. It is illuminated on both sides by double-tube neon letters and bulbs. The primary obstacle to the project was installation. Since the building’s façade could not be altered, holes were cut in the glass surface.
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Orchard Supply
Arrow is pleased to have installed the recently refurbished Orchard Supply Hardware sign. The 50+ year old sign was restored over several months in Stockton and Oakland to replace the glass neon tubing and paint. The sign measures 11’ and sits on a pole 14’ high. We were true to the original construction of the design, only remaking the neon tubes and using the original colors. All existing bracing, cable turnbuckle and hardware was either re-used or replaced. It's now on display at History Park in San Jose. The sign was featured in San Jose Mercury News https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/17/iconic-orchard-supply-hardware-sign-recovered |
Chinatown’s Oldest Bar Brings Iconic Lantern Back to Life
Nov 6, 2018, Eater San Francisco
One aspect of lovably downtrodden Chinatown dive bar Li Po Cocktail Lounge is looking very fresh these days: Its 70-year-old neon sign, an intricate, six-sided Chinese lantern. Long broken and flickering, the Li Po lantern was restored and relit last week. Now it’s ready to lure more drinkers through the bar’s cavern-like doors at 916 Grant Avenue for drinks like Li Po’s famous Chinese Mai Tai: A dangerous concoction of three rums and mysterious “Chinese liqueur” favored by the late Anthony Bourdain.
Li Po’s sign restoration was funded in part by SF taxpayers: The city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) assists businesses like Li Po through its SF Shines program, which grants up to $15,000 for storefront improvements including sign restoration.
The goal isn’t just aesthetic. “The look of a storefront can determine if you get business, or if you don’t,” Gloria Chan, director of communications for the OEWD, told Eater SF last year. “Successful restaurants reduce storefront vacancies, add to the variety of neighborhood-serving small businesses, [and] create good jobs for residents.”
sfneon.orgOakland-based Arrow Sign Company restored Li Po’s sign, with SF neon preservationists, authors, and tour guides Randall Ann Homan and Al Barna advising on historical color matching and more. The process involves hand-bending glass tubes to be filled with luminous gas such as neon, per the name, though argon is more common.
“Li Po is one of the most unique neon signs in San Francisco,” says Barna. “It has always been a highlight on our Chinatown neon walking tour.”
To make the most of the process, he and Homan photo documented the restoration, creating a guide to best practices for historic sign rejuvenation.
“This was a great opportunity,” says Homan. “Working with both SF Shines and the Arrow Sign Company on the Li Po restoration project gave us more insight into all the little details that make for a brilliant neon restoration.”
Neon signage — long derided — has experienced its own rehabilitation in recent years. New restaurants are keen to commission flashy neon signs, often with Instagram in mind. Think, for instance, of the “I got baked in SF” sign at Mr. Holmes. In fact, neon has always photographed rather well, and has long captured the eye of cinematographers.
“We talk about the cinematic quality of neon signs, and in part, that comes directly from films, particularly noir,” says Barna. One good example? Li Po’s neon lantern apears in the 1947 Orson Wells film the Lady From Shanghai starring Rita Hayworth. Now restored, the Li Po sign is ready for its next close up.
Nov 6, 2018, Eater San Francisco
One aspect of lovably downtrodden Chinatown dive bar Li Po Cocktail Lounge is looking very fresh these days: Its 70-year-old neon sign, an intricate, six-sided Chinese lantern. Long broken and flickering, the Li Po lantern was restored and relit last week. Now it’s ready to lure more drinkers through the bar’s cavern-like doors at 916 Grant Avenue for drinks like Li Po’s famous Chinese Mai Tai: A dangerous concoction of three rums and mysterious “Chinese liqueur” favored by the late Anthony Bourdain.
Li Po’s sign restoration was funded in part by SF taxpayers: The city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) assists businesses like Li Po through its SF Shines program, which grants up to $15,000 for storefront improvements including sign restoration.
The goal isn’t just aesthetic. “The look of a storefront can determine if you get business, or if you don’t,” Gloria Chan, director of communications for the OEWD, told Eater SF last year. “Successful restaurants reduce storefront vacancies, add to the variety of neighborhood-serving small businesses, [and] create good jobs for residents.”
sfneon.orgOakland-based Arrow Sign Company restored Li Po’s sign, with SF neon preservationists, authors, and tour guides Randall Ann Homan and Al Barna advising on historical color matching and more. The process involves hand-bending glass tubes to be filled with luminous gas such as neon, per the name, though argon is more common.
“Li Po is one of the most unique neon signs in San Francisco,” says Barna. “It has always been a highlight on our Chinatown neon walking tour.”
To make the most of the process, he and Homan photo documented the restoration, creating a guide to best practices for historic sign rejuvenation.
“This was a great opportunity,” says Homan. “Working with both SF Shines and the Arrow Sign Company on the Li Po restoration project gave us more insight into all the little details that make for a brilliant neon restoration.”
Neon signage — long derided — has experienced its own rehabilitation in recent years. New restaurants are keen to commission flashy neon signs, often with Instagram in mind. Think, for instance, of the “I got baked in SF” sign at Mr. Holmes. In fact, neon has always photographed rather well, and has long captured the eye of cinematographers.
“We talk about the cinematic quality of neon signs, and in part, that comes directly from films, particularly noir,” says Barna. One good example? Li Po’s neon lantern apears in the 1947 Orson Wells film the Lady From Shanghai starring Rita Hayworth. Now restored, the Li Po sign is ready for its next close up.
Ellis landmark installed
April 26, 2018, Tracy Press
The Ellis development on Corral Hollow Road between Linne and Valpico roads added a landmark to the home building going on — a water tower at the entrance to the community.
“It’s really a celebration of Tracy’s proud history,” Chris Long, president of The Surland Cos., which is developing Ellis, said Thursday.
Long said the tower was part of the design from the beginning of the project and was meant as an homage to Tracy’s existing water towers at Civic Center Plaza and Sixth Street and Tracy Boulevard.
“We’re all about connection and connecting people in the community to the community at large,” he said.
The landmark was built by Arrow Sign Co. of Oakland and Stockton.
April 26, 2018, Tracy Press
The Ellis development on Corral Hollow Road between Linne and Valpico roads added a landmark to the home building going on — a water tower at the entrance to the community.
“It’s really a celebration of Tracy’s proud history,” Chris Long, president of The Surland Cos., which is developing Ellis, said Thursday.
Long said the tower was part of the design from the beginning of the project and was meant as an homage to Tracy’s existing water towers at Civic Center Plaza and Sixth Street and Tracy Boulevard.
“We’re all about connection and connecting people in the community to the community at large,” he said.
The landmark was built by Arrow Sign Co. of Oakland and Stockton.
Children’s Fairyland gets a fancy new sign, in case you didn’t know where it was
Aug. 10, 2018, San Francisco Chronicle
Every kid in Oakland already knows how to get to Children’s Fairyland.
You bug your parents and they take you.
But now, in case the mommies and daddies get lost on the way, there’s a fancy sign in front of the 68-year-old kiddie park on the shores of Lake Merritt. It lets the world know exactly where Children’s Fairyland is located, in case the world had doubts which, after 68 years, it doesn’t.
“I’d know my way here with my eyes closed,” said Nancy Dunlap, who said she used to bring her son to the park every week when he was 1. He’s now 50.
“But it’s a great sign,” she added.
The sign is a whimsical, off-kilter arrangement of giant steel letters on tall poles that spell F-A-I-R-Y-L-A-N-D. It lights up at night, well after its customers’ bedtimes.
The assembly of the sign, part of a $550,000 makeover of the entrance plaza, was delayed on Friday morning while installer Steve DeMelo tried to fasten the final giant “A” onto the final pole. Someone had sprayed too much paint on the metal, blocking a bolt hole, and DeMelo had to come back down to earth on his cherry picker to drill the hole clear. A cherry picker is the kind of thrill ride they don’t have inside Children’s Fairyland, a sedate place full of fairy-tale-based climbing structures where the most heart-pumping attraction is the new espresso bar for grown-ups.
DeMelo said installing the deliberately off-center letters went against the grain of a sign installer, but the customer comes first.
“If the designer wants it crooked, and they draw a plan that has it crooked, we install it crooked,” he said.
Everything at Children’s Fairyland is crooked, said executive director C.J. Hirschfield, who loves the place so much that, for a necklace, she wears a string of five colorful Fairyland talking story box keys.
“There’s a surprise around every corner and no straight lines,” she said.
Molly Clockler brought her 2-year-old daughter, Hazel, to the park. Molly said the new sign was “colorful and welcoming.” Hazel was too busy climbing through the crooked house to venture an opinion.
The sign was built with public funds from a park bond passed by voters 10 years ago, about twice as long as the lifetime of anyone scampering through the mouth of Willie the Whale on Friday. The $500 million bond has also been used to build the East Oakland sports center, to fix up public pools in Lafayette and San Ramon, and to construct a playground in Oakley and a trail in Lafayette.
The giant letters on the poles might be new, but the rest of Children’s Fairyland is largely the way it was on opening day in 1950. Keeping up appearances is a full-time job. A big chore is repainting Snow White’s nose every few weeks, because kids like to rub it for good luck. Keeping the yellow brick road free of chewing gum and the Mad Hatter’s tea party table free of leaves requires vigilance, too.
Aug. 10, 2018, San Francisco Chronicle
Every kid in Oakland already knows how to get to Children’s Fairyland.
You bug your parents and they take you.
But now, in case the mommies and daddies get lost on the way, there’s a fancy sign in front of the 68-year-old kiddie park on the shores of Lake Merritt. It lets the world know exactly where Children’s Fairyland is located, in case the world had doubts which, after 68 years, it doesn’t.
“I’d know my way here with my eyes closed,” said Nancy Dunlap, who said she used to bring her son to the park every week when he was 1. He’s now 50.
“But it’s a great sign,” she added.
The sign is a whimsical, off-kilter arrangement of giant steel letters on tall poles that spell F-A-I-R-Y-L-A-N-D. It lights up at night, well after its customers’ bedtimes.
The assembly of the sign, part of a $550,000 makeover of the entrance plaza, was delayed on Friday morning while installer Steve DeMelo tried to fasten the final giant “A” onto the final pole. Someone had sprayed too much paint on the metal, blocking a bolt hole, and DeMelo had to come back down to earth on his cherry picker to drill the hole clear. A cherry picker is the kind of thrill ride they don’t have inside Children’s Fairyland, a sedate place full of fairy-tale-based climbing structures where the most heart-pumping attraction is the new espresso bar for grown-ups.
DeMelo said installing the deliberately off-center letters went against the grain of a sign installer, but the customer comes first.
“If the designer wants it crooked, and they draw a plan that has it crooked, we install it crooked,” he said.
Everything at Children’s Fairyland is crooked, said executive director C.J. Hirschfield, who loves the place so much that, for a necklace, she wears a string of five colorful Fairyland talking story box keys.
“There’s a surprise around every corner and no straight lines,” she said.
Molly Clockler brought her 2-year-old daughter, Hazel, to the park. Molly said the new sign was “colorful and welcoming.” Hazel was too busy climbing through the crooked house to venture an opinion.
The sign was built with public funds from a park bond passed by voters 10 years ago, about twice as long as the lifetime of anyone scampering through the mouth of Willie the Whale on Friday. The $500 million bond has also been used to build the East Oakland sports center, to fix up public pools in Lafayette and San Ramon, and to construct a playground in Oakley and a trail in Lafayette.
The giant letters on the poles might be new, but the rest of Children’s Fairyland is largely the way it was on opening day in 1950. Keeping up appearances is a full-time job. A big chore is repainting Snow White’s nose every few weeks, because kids like to rub it for good luck. Keeping the yellow brick road free of chewing gum and the Mad Hatter’s tea party table free of leaves requires vigilance, too.
New Crab Wheel 'Glows' with Savings Thanks to GE's LED Lighting Donation
April 17th, 2014, Wall Street Journal — On San Francisco's northern waterfront lies the world-renowned historic fishing district, Fisherman's Wharf. The city's most popular tourist destination attracts more than 10 million visitors a year who at the gateway can glimpse a nearly 16-foot iconic symbol of the area's history and culture--the "crab wheel."
The Fisherman's Wharf Community Benefit District recently restored San Francisco's cherished "crab wheel" sign while saving an estimated 80 percent in lighting energy usage with GE Tetra(R) PowerStrip LED sign lighting. (Photo: General Electric)
With the help of Arrow Sign Company and LED sign lighting systems donated from GE, the Fisherman's Wharf Community Benefit District (CBD) recently restored this cherished landmark while saving an estimated 80 percent in lighting energy usage.
"We reviewed several contractor bids and one of the main factors to choose Arrow Sign Company was its use of GE products," said Troy Campbell, executive director of Fisherman's Wharf CBD. "We knew LED technology had the right long-lasting, energy-saving benefits for us, and we felt confident in the GE brand."
GE donated its Tetra(R) PowerStrip LED sign lighting to replace the traditional T12 fluorescent tube lighting previously used in the sign. The new sign will consume 80 percent less energy for Fisherman's Wharf, with the LED lighting system using 676 total watts versus the 4,000 total watts used with the previous fluorescent lamp layout. Additionally, the switch to LED lighting means greater longevity for the sign's lighting system due to a rated fixture lifetime of 50,000 hours.
When illuminated, Campbell said the sign now has a "bright, even glow" and a "uniform, one-color appearance," which he noted has already received positive tourist feedback.
The move to GE's LED sign lighting will also mean reduced maintenance time and costs compared to previous upkeep needs.
Visit www.gelighting.com to learn more about LED and other efficient lighting technologies from GE.
About GE Lighting
GE Lighting invents with the vigor of its founder Thomas Edison to develop energy-efficient solutions that change the way people light their world in commercial, industrial, municipal and residential settings. The business employs about 13,000 people in more than 100 countries, and sells products under the reveal(R) and Energy Smart(R) consumer brands, and Evolve(TM), GTx(TM), Immersion(TM), Infusion(TM), Lumination(TM), Albeo(TM), and Tetra(R) commercial brands, all trademarks of GE. General Electric (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter to build a world that works better.
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Link to Wall Street Journal Article
April 17th, 2014, Wall Street Journal — On San Francisco's northern waterfront lies the world-renowned historic fishing district, Fisherman's Wharf. The city's most popular tourist destination attracts more than 10 million visitors a year who at the gateway can glimpse a nearly 16-foot iconic symbol of the area's history and culture--the "crab wheel."
The Fisherman's Wharf Community Benefit District recently restored San Francisco's cherished "crab wheel" sign while saving an estimated 80 percent in lighting energy usage with GE Tetra(R) PowerStrip LED sign lighting. (Photo: General Electric)
With the help of Arrow Sign Company and LED sign lighting systems donated from GE, the Fisherman's Wharf Community Benefit District (CBD) recently restored this cherished landmark while saving an estimated 80 percent in lighting energy usage.
"We reviewed several contractor bids and one of the main factors to choose Arrow Sign Company was its use of GE products," said Troy Campbell, executive director of Fisherman's Wharf CBD. "We knew LED technology had the right long-lasting, energy-saving benefits for us, and we felt confident in the GE brand."
GE donated its Tetra(R) PowerStrip LED sign lighting to replace the traditional T12 fluorescent tube lighting previously used in the sign. The new sign will consume 80 percent less energy for Fisherman's Wharf, with the LED lighting system using 676 total watts versus the 4,000 total watts used with the previous fluorescent lamp layout. Additionally, the switch to LED lighting means greater longevity for the sign's lighting system due to a rated fixture lifetime of 50,000 hours.
When illuminated, Campbell said the sign now has a "bright, even glow" and a "uniform, one-color appearance," which he noted has already received positive tourist feedback.
The move to GE's LED sign lighting will also mean reduced maintenance time and costs compared to previous upkeep needs.
Visit www.gelighting.com to learn more about LED and other efficient lighting technologies from GE.
About GE Lighting
GE Lighting invents with the vigor of its founder Thomas Edison to develop energy-efficient solutions that change the way people light their world in commercial, industrial, municipal and residential settings. The business employs about 13,000 people in more than 100 countries, and sells products under the reveal(R) and Energy Smart(R) consumer brands, and Evolve(TM), GTx(TM), Immersion(TM), Infusion(TM), Lumination(TM), Albeo(TM), and Tetra(R) commercial brands, all trademarks of GE. General Electric (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter to build a world that works better.
Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available
Link to Wall Street Journal Article
Arrow Sign Co. plays a key role in branding Hollywood’s W Hotel.
In 1923, Hollywood, CA, bustled with commercial activity. Movie studios opened all over town, and many iconic signs that identified the now-famous landmarks sprouted like wildflowers across the Los Angeles hills. While oil discoveries, such as those in nearby Long Beach, propelled America’s love affair with the automobile, local land developers hired Crescent Sign Co. to erect the massive “Hollywoodland” sign to advertise an under-construction housing development. During the 1950s, the sign was contracted to, simply, “Hollywood.”
The landmark’s rise to prominence coincided with a three-fold increase in the number of automobiles on the road from 1920 to 1923. With so many people speeding by in their fancy new motorcars, signmakers worked hard to keep up. Small, discreet signs were on the way out; large-scale spectaculars became all the rage.
In January 2006, a team of professionals began planning an important cog in the current generation of iconic signs worthy of Hollywood’s upscale, yet flashy, image. The W Hotel project started as a vision HKS Inc., an architectural firm, cultivated on behalf of Starwood Resorts, operators of the high-end W chain, which includes approximately 30 hotels worldwide. In addition to the architects, key project players included environmental-graphic designers Sussman/Prejza (Culver City, CA); Webcor Builders (San Mateo, CA), the construction contractor; DCI Engineers (Seattle), the structural engineer; Van Wagner Advertising (Los Angeles), which managed the property’s ad panels; and Arrow Sign Co. (Oakland, CA).
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Signweb article about W Hotel Installation
In 1923, Hollywood, CA, bustled with commercial activity. Movie studios opened all over town, and many iconic signs that identified the now-famous landmarks sprouted like wildflowers across the Los Angeles hills. While oil discoveries, such as those in nearby Long Beach, propelled America’s love affair with the automobile, local land developers hired Crescent Sign Co. to erect the massive “Hollywoodland” sign to advertise an under-construction housing development. During the 1950s, the sign was contracted to, simply, “Hollywood.”
The landmark’s rise to prominence coincided with a three-fold increase in the number of automobiles on the road from 1920 to 1923. With so many people speeding by in their fancy new motorcars, signmakers worked hard to keep up. Small, discreet signs were on the way out; large-scale spectaculars became all the rage.
In January 2006, a team of professionals began planning an important cog in the current generation of iconic signs worthy of Hollywood’s upscale, yet flashy, image. The W Hotel project started as a vision HKS Inc., an architectural firm, cultivated on behalf of Starwood Resorts, operators of the high-end W chain, which includes approximately 30 hotels worldwide. In addition to the architects, key project players included environmental-graphic designers Sussman/Prejza (Culver City, CA); Webcor Builders (San Mateo, CA), the construction contractor; DCI Engineers (Seattle), the structural engineer; Van Wagner Advertising (Los Angeles), which managed the property’s ad panels; and Arrow Sign Co. (Oakland, CA).
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Signweb article about W Hotel Installation
Citrus Town Center
Citrus Town Center has gotten a lift through a remodel and renaming, and now it has a striking new sign, too.
The shopping center at the corner of Sunrise Boulevard and Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights now features an LED rooftop sign with an aluminum tree, according to a news release from the center’s owner,Peter P. Bollinger Investment Co. Bright colors contrast with an exposed frame.
The sign is designed with an retro flavor but modernized for a contemporary look, too, according to the center’s owner.
The sign is the first of its type in the city, and the retail center had to get an exception to the an ordinance covering appropriate height, location, size and other sign elements.
The roof sign, fabricated by Arrow Sign Co., also fits in with new water features, elliptical signage and the facade and landscape facelift at the center of the recent $4 million renovation. For those efforts, the center was named a retail category finalist for the Business Journal’s Real Estate Projects 2011-2012 awards.
Major tenants at the center include Sprouts Farmers Market, Marshalls, Panera Bread, Bev Mo, Once Upon a Child, Round Table, Staples and Petsmart.
Sacramento Business Journal Article about Citrus Town Center
Citrus Town Center has gotten a lift through a remodel and renaming, and now it has a striking new sign, too.
The shopping center at the corner of Sunrise Boulevard and Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights now features an LED rooftop sign with an aluminum tree, according to a news release from the center’s owner,Peter P. Bollinger Investment Co. Bright colors contrast with an exposed frame.
The sign is designed with an retro flavor but modernized for a contemporary look, too, according to the center’s owner.
The sign is the first of its type in the city, and the retail center had to get an exception to the an ordinance covering appropriate height, location, size and other sign elements.
The roof sign, fabricated by Arrow Sign Co., also fits in with new water features, elliptical signage and the facade and landscape facelift at the center of the recent $4 million renovation. For those efforts, the center was named a retail category finalist for the Business Journal’s Real Estate Projects 2011-2012 awards.
Major tenants at the center include Sprouts Farmers Market, Marshalls, Panera Bread, Bev Mo, Once Upon a Child, Round Table, Staples and Petsmart.
Sacramento Business Journal Article about Citrus Town Center
Train station is at center of Stockton, CA, renewal
New Urban News, December 2010
The San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission, which operates commuter trains between Stockton and San Jose, California, is helping to rehabilitate an old neighborhood at the commuter line’s eastern terminus — the Robert J. Cabral Station in Stockton. In late August the Commission celebrated completion of a new 75-foot clock tower adjoining the historic station on the eastern edge of downtown.
The clock tower, along with improvements such as new pedestrian walkways, a public plaza, and better lighting, is part of the first phase of the neighborhood’s revitalization, says Stefan Pellegrini, principal inOpticos Design in Berkeley. Opticos designed the clock tower, which screens mechanical equipment that had previously sat exposed, detracting from appearance of the station renovated in 2003. The tower’s upper portion was steel-fabricated off-site by Arrow Sign Company of Oakland and then hoisted onto the brick base.
Opticos produced a master plan to reanimate the area, described by the Stockton Record as “a rundown segment of downtown’s fringe.” The Rail Commission has purchased several dilapidated Victorian homes in the vicinity and is looking to renovate them for professional office uses, Pellegrini points out.
The City of Stockton is pursuing the redesign of a streetscape and a series of zoning changes to help “make the neighborhood more appealing for new residential and mixed-use development,” Pellegrini says. Whether the zoning will be a form-based code is not yet clear.
Article that features clock tower Arrow built in Stockton
New Urban News, December 2010
The San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission, which operates commuter trains between Stockton and San Jose, California, is helping to rehabilitate an old neighborhood at the commuter line’s eastern terminus — the Robert J. Cabral Station in Stockton. In late August the Commission celebrated completion of a new 75-foot clock tower adjoining the historic station on the eastern edge of downtown.
The clock tower, along with improvements such as new pedestrian walkways, a public plaza, and better lighting, is part of the first phase of the neighborhood’s revitalization, says Stefan Pellegrini, principal inOpticos Design in Berkeley. Opticos designed the clock tower, which screens mechanical equipment that had previously sat exposed, detracting from appearance of the station renovated in 2003. The tower’s upper portion was steel-fabricated off-site by Arrow Sign Company of Oakland and then hoisted onto the brick base.
Opticos produced a master plan to reanimate the area, described by the Stockton Record as “a rundown segment of downtown’s fringe.” The Rail Commission has purchased several dilapidated Victorian homes in the vicinity and is looking to renovate them for professional office uses, Pellegrini points out.
The City of Stockton is pursuing the redesign of a streetscape and a series of zoning changes to help “make the neighborhood more appealing for new residential and mixed-use development,” Pellegrini says. Whether the zoning will be a form-based code is not yet clear.
Article that features clock tower Arrow built in Stockton
Success Factors building
Video on YouTube of the Success Factors building shot by the customer with a remote control helicopter.
Customer video of Successfactos lighting
Video on YouTube of the Success Factors building shot by the customer with a remote control helicopter.
Customer video of Successfactos lighting
Pleasant Hill Patch - Pleasant Hill Gateway Signs
PLEASANT HILL, CA -- If you think something has looked a bit different as you've driven around town the past few weeks, you're right.
The City of Pleasant Hill has installed eight new 'Gateway' style signs at major entryways to the city. The signs, which were installed in late December, replaced the old 'Pagoda' style signs that were removed a few months ago.
In addition to the Gateway signs, the city is also is installing 29 ‘wayfinding’ signs at various locations, which will highlight main attractions such as Downtown, City Hall, Pleasant Hill Library, PH Community Center and other key buildings and parks in order to help both residents and visitors navigate to major destinations in the city.
The Gateway and Wayfinding signage was designed over an 18-month period working with WRT, urban design consultants, and Arrow Sign Company. The process included ten public workshops and multiple focus group meetings during which input was solicited from various community members regarding design concepts and locations for the new signs.
PLEASANT HILL, CA -- If you think something has looked a bit different as you've driven around town the past few weeks, you're right.
The City of Pleasant Hill has installed eight new 'Gateway' style signs at major entryways to the city. The signs, which were installed in late December, replaced the old 'Pagoda' style signs that were removed a few months ago.
In addition to the Gateway signs, the city is also is installing 29 ‘wayfinding’ signs at various locations, which will highlight main attractions such as Downtown, City Hall, Pleasant Hill Library, PH Community Center and other key buildings and parks in order to help both residents and visitors navigate to major destinations in the city.
The Gateway and Wayfinding signage was designed over an 18-month period working with WRT, urban design consultants, and Arrow Sign Company. The process included ten public workshops and multiple focus group meetings during which input was solicited from various community members regarding design concepts and locations for the new signs.
Signs of the Times
BEST OF THE REST: ARROW SIGNS
A public-art display creatively incorporates electronic message centers.
Coordinating ST’s International Sign Contest annually provides one of my most enjoyable job duties. The opportunity to review hundreds of top-flight projects that arrive through the transom – mostly on our FTP server and via email – always delivers an exhilarating experience.
Given the quality of entries we receive, it’s always unfortunate that some very worthwhile signage doesn’t make the winners’ circle. But, just because an entry doesn’t earn recognition in the contest gallery, it may still appear on our pages. This month, we’ve culled through several submissions left in the field and compiled this gallery.
As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe you’ll like some of the signage presented here more than those that earned glory in last month’s issue. In any event, ST proudly offers the “best of the rest.”
Legacy Partners, which operates numerous commercial and residential properties throughout California, and its general contractor, Webcor, hired Arrow Sign Co. (Oakland) and HKS Architects Inc. (Beverly Hills, CA) to collaborate for the 1600 Vine Jennifer Steinkamp public-art project. It incorporates eight, 4 x 25-ft., ArrowVision LED messageboard columns that display varied digital-art pieces in front of the Legacy Colonnades, a Los Angeles residential development.
The displays include a steel structure secured to a concrete base and a 3⁄16-in.-thick, aluminum wrap. The displays entail 16mm-pixel, 8mm, virtual modules sheathed in non-glare, laminated-glass panels and secured with anodized-aluminum standoffs.
BEST OF THE REST: ARROW SIGNS
A public-art display creatively incorporates electronic message centers.
Coordinating ST’s International Sign Contest annually provides one of my most enjoyable job duties. The opportunity to review hundreds of top-flight projects that arrive through the transom – mostly on our FTP server and via email – always delivers an exhilarating experience.
Given the quality of entries we receive, it’s always unfortunate that some very worthwhile signage doesn’t make the winners’ circle. But, just because an entry doesn’t earn recognition in the contest gallery, it may still appear on our pages. This month, we’ve culled through several submissions left in the field and compiled this gallery.
As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe you’ll like some of the signage presented here more than those that earned glory in last month’s issue. In any event, ST proudly offers the “best of the rest.”
Legacy Partners, which operates numerous commercial and residential properties throughout California, and its general contractor, Webcor, hired Arrow Sign Co. (Oakland) and HKS Architects Inc. (Beverly Hills, CA) to collaborate for the 1600 Vine Jennifer Steinkamp public-art project. It incorporates eight, 4 x 25-ft., ArrowVision LED messageboard columns that display varied digital-art pieces in front of the Legacy Colonnades, a Los Angeles residential development.
The displays include a steel structure secured to a concrete base and a 3⁄16-in.-thick, aluminum wrap. The displays entail 16mm-pixel, 8mm, virtual modules sheathed in non-glare, laminated-glass panels and secured with anodized-aluminum standoffs.