Signs and banners
Storefront signs, window graphics, event banners and yard signs. Tell us what you are putting up and where, and you get a real price back within one business day.
Quote in 1 business day
Send the size and the spot. A photo of the wall answers more than a paragraph.
Indoor or outdoor
Permanent or temporary. Outdoor means UV, rain and Michigan winters, which changes the material, not just the price.
Check the permit first
Lowell requires one and the fee is not published online. Call the Zoning Administrator on 616-897-8457.
The permit comes before the artwork
The City of Lowell lists two separate applications on its planning and zoning page: a Sign Permit and a Temporary Sign Permit. A banner for a grand opening or a season is the temporary one, and it is the application people forget to ask about.
We checked that page and the fees, size limits and duration limits are not published on it — they live inside the application PDFs and with the Zoning Administrator. So before you approve any artwork, ring City Hall with two things ready: the dimensions of the sign, and exactly where it is going.
Zoning Administrator, 301 E. Main Street, Lowell · 616-897-8457. That call takes a few minutes. A sign made to the wrong size is not adjusted, it is remade, and you pay for it twice.
How it works
- Call the city and confirm the size you are allowed, and whether you need the temporary permit.
- Send us the details. Size in inches, where it mounts, indoor or outdoor, and your date.
- We quote within one business day.
- You approve the artwork, we make it.
What we need in order to quote
The same four square feet costs very different amounts depending on what it is made of and where it has to survive. In roughly the order they move the price:
- The size, in inches. Not “a big one” — the permit needs a number and so does the quote
- Indoors or outdoors
- How it mounts. Grommets on a fence, screwed to a wall, hung from a bracket, stakes in the ground
- One side or two. A double-sided sign is closer to two signs than one
- Whether you need it installed or just made and handed to you
- Whether the artwork exists. A print-ready file costs nothing extra
- Your date. A date, not “soon”
If you do not know some of these, say so on the form. Half the job is working out what you actually need.
Request a quote
If you have a photo of the wall, the window or the spot on the lot, send it.
Signs and banners we have made
Storefront signs, window graphics, event banners and yard signs. Local businesses you can drive past and look at.
Source: City of Lowell, Planning and Zoning Permits — lists the Sign Permit and Temporary Sign Permit applications and gives the Zoning Administrator’s address and phone. Checked 15 September 2026.