KVI and RE/MAX Elite Multi-Tenant Pylon
Nine tenant panels in two columns, an address cap that reads before any of them, and a base that names the road. One structure doing the wayfinding for a whole building.
What the Photograph Shows
An arched blue cap crowns the sign and carries the street numbers 1456-1458 in white. Numbers that size are not decoration. On a road where buildings sit back behind their parking, the address is the first thing a driver needs and the last thing most signs give them.
Under the cap, nine tenant panels sit in two columns on a white field inside a blue frame. The left column runs KVI Ultra Precision Machining, Tooling and EDM at the top, then Pennsylvania Dance Institute, then Realty Mark, then Dhuni Yoga. The right column runs RE/MAX Elite with the balloon mark, then First USA Abstract, Glendale Abstract, Farmers Insurance, and Home America Lending.
KVI holds the top left panel at roughly twice the depth of the panels beneath it. That is the anchor position on a shared sign, and it is settled at layout, long before anything is cut.
The base below the panels is a solid blue panel lettered County Line Road, Huntington Valley, PA, 19006. Behind the sign the road runs past a guardrail, and a smaller sign stands off to the left near the entrance.
Project Specs
- Client
- The building at 1456-1458 County Line Road
- Location
- County Line Road, Huntington Valley, PA 19006, as lettered on the base of the sign itself
- Sign type
- Multi-tenant pylon sign
- Directory
- Nine tenant panels in two columns, under an address cap carrying the street numbers
- Anchor position
- Top left panel, at roughly double the depth of a standard tenant panel
- Structure
- Panel cabinet standing on a solid clad base at the roadside
- Faces
- White fields carrying full-color tenant artwork, inside a blue frame with a blue cap and base
- Lighting
- Not established from the photograph
- VH scope
- Installation
A Shared Sign Is a Layout Problem First
A multi-tenant pylon is one sign owned by one landlord and read by nine sets of customers. That changes the order of the work.
- Count the panels before you draw anything. The number of tenants sets the height, and the height is the number zoning cares about. Getting the panel count wrong means redrawing after the sign has already been priced. Our surveys and permitting team pulls the height and area limits for the address before design starts.
- Give the address its own real estate. A tenant directory tells a driver who is here. The street numbers tell them they have arrived. On this sign the numbers sit in the cap above every tenant, which is the only place they cannot be crowded out later.
- Set the hierarchy in the drawing. Anchor tenant, standard panels, and the base copy are three different sizes for three different reading distances. Sign design is where that gets fixed, because once the frame is welded the panel openings are what they are.
- Standardize the panel sizes. Tenants move. A directory built on a couple of repeating panel dimensions lets one panel slide out and a new one slide in, which is the difference between a swap and a rebuild. That is the routine work behind our property management signage.
- Engineering and footing. A free-standing sign carries wind load, so permits typically call for sealed engineering drawings and a concrete footing sized to the sign and the soil.
- The set. Cabinets and structure go up on our own crane trucks, with a VH operator on the controls and our own crew on the rigging.
Signs like this one carry the businesses that never get a storefront of their own. A machining shop, a dance school, two title companies, an insurance office and a yoga studio share one address, and the pylon is the only place a driver can see all of them at once. When a tenant leaves, the sign is the first thing that has to change, and panel swaps and repairs are ordinary work for us.
We work Montgomery County and Bucks County out of the shop on Woodhaven Road.
Need a Directory Sign for Your Building?
Send us the address and the tenant list. We will check the height allowed there, lay the panels out to it, and price the sign against a real drawing.
267-344-8492