Denver, Colorado

Custom signs are just that, custom representations of your business goals and identity. Promoting your products, services, and building brand identity in your local community is essential. Your sign is often the first piece of business identity a customer will see when entering your place of business. Making that first impression impactful and original is essential.

Simply put, your sign is advertising. We often see customers looking at signs as an object they need before they open their business. It's not. It's the first and most important advertising decision you will make. It will generate revenue for you immediately and until the day it is removed. Commercial signs are the most cost-effective form of advertising you will ever by and they are simple. Unlike google, bing, or other forms of advertising, signs are common in our language as advertisers and do not require any management.

Getting it right requires extensive knowledge of the rules and regulations for the City of Denver.

Denver Zoning Code and Zone Descriptions

The first step in the journey of navigating sign regulations will start with your zoning designation. The City of Denver utilizes a series of online resources to help you determine your zoning:

1. Denver Property Map: This is the quickest and easiest method of determining your zoning. It also provides the full property record.
2. Zone District Descriptions: This webpage contains a complete listing of zoning 

Signdealz consultants are trained in how to evaluate your brand, the building's architecture, sign code, zoning, and signage functionality to deliver the best sign solution for your business. It's not an easy endeavor. Navigating your budget and the City of Denver's requirements for Denver Sign Code can be very challenging, but you can trust we have done it hundreds of times. Denver has multiple design review standards and guidelines. Ther are 4 design review boards in the City of Denver:

1. Downtown Design Advisory Board
2. Cherry Creek North Design Advisory Board
3. Denver Planning Board
4. Landmark Preservation Commission

These design review boards can review and approve the structural elements, color, placement, location, and height of commercial signs in each district, but they cannot regulate the content of the copy of the sign. This is protected speech under the 1st amendment of the constitution. 

Once your zoning and design review requirements are determined, we can start the design process. Keep in mind, your design is reviewed by yourself, your landlord or developer, an engineer, fabricator, and city planning and zoning. It will contain a lot of relevant information. Here are the steps in the design process:

Engineering

Upon acceptance of your quote and signed drawing, we will submit your design to our engineering group. A set of stamped engineering will be provided and your concept design will be revised to reflect the engineering and associated calculations. This is the last step before permit submission. Just a note, all signs will not require engineering.

Permitting

Permitting is handled by our project management team. Our service includes providing your landlord with drawings so we may get their approval. We will fill out your application and submit it to the City of Denver building department for zoning approval. 

Fabrication

Once your permits are approved we move on to fabrication. Your project will be fabrication inside our wholesale partner network. Our project management team will deliver completion photos to you for approval. Your sign will not leave our facility unless you have approved of the completed product. We call this process visual verification. 

Shipping

If your project was fabricated out of state, we will coordinate the shipping of your project to one of our secure warehouses where the sign will be inspected and photographed to ensure no damage has taken place. All shipments are fully insured.

Installation

Our project management team will coordinate with your GC, electrician, or yourself to ensure your project will be installed without any issues. Your project may require a street or sidewalk closure and if so, it will be coordinated prior to the installation of your sign. Once the electrical for your sign has been completed, our project management team will call in your inspections and close out the project.