Denver Pavilions Glenarm Banners

What they needed

Denver Pavilions and the Downtown Denver Partnership closed two blocks of Glenarm Place off the 16th Street Mall to create Glenarm Plaza, a space for outdoor drinks, concerts and events, right as the Mall finished its multi-year rebuild. The tall blade signs on the building had spent years in the sun without upkeep, and they looked it. The Partnership supplied new designs. Our job was to take down every old face and put up new ones.

The site

A busy downtown corner at 16th and Glenarm. The sign frames stayed. The faces came off and the new ones went up, the highest about 60 feet in the air. The Partnership handled the permitting.

What we used

Prints on 3M LX480mc with 8518 gloss laminate, mounted to 6mm ACM panels. Every graphic wraps over the edge and an inch around the back, so weather can't get under the print and wear the face out early.

The hard part

The size and the count, on a schedule that had to move fast. Every face had to be built, hauled downtown without a scratch, lifted as high as 60 feet and fastened to the existing frames. That height takes heavy equipment, specific insurance and prevailing-wage crews, so we prepped every face in our shop, brought in a specialty install crew and managed the job from start to finish.

Timeline

About a week in our shop printing, laminating, cutting and mounting. Two full days on site.

The result

New signs over a plaza built for people to gather. We're proud to be one piece of the 16th Street Mall project, and glad to see these signs sit alongside the work of the artists and planners who made Glenarm Plaza happen.