Monument Signs for High Point Showrooms, Churches and Offices
High Point runs on furniture. Twice a year the High Point Market fills the showroom blocks downtown along Main Street, and for the rest of the year those same buildings hold design firms, offices and the trades that serve them. Drive out Eastchester Drive, Westchester Drive or the Wendover Avenue stretch near the Palladium and the city looks like the rest of the growing Triad: medical offices, banks, churches with wide front lawns, and neighborhoods spreading north toward Oak Hollow Lake and Skeet Club Road.
That mix is why a sign in High Point has two jobs. On a showroom block it has to read from a slow car full of buyers who have never been here before. On a church lawn or a neighborhood entrance it has to sit low, look like it belongs, and still be legible from a 45 mph road. JED Signs builds both, from our base in Greensboro, about twenty minutes up the road.
Signs we build around town
Most High Point calls are for one of three things. Offices and medical practices along Eastchester and Westchester want a low brick or stone base with a routed aluminum face, usually with the street number cut large enough for a delivery driver to find. Churches want room for a changing message, which is where the message-board signs we build for congregations come in: a masonry base with either a changeable letter panel or an LED display set into the cap. Neighborhoods want an entrance wall at the turn-in, often two matching piers so the entrance reads from both directions of traffic.
Showroom owners are a different case. Their buildings are often older and tall, set close to the sidewalk, and a ground sign has to fit a narrow strip between the curb and the door. For those we usually go smaller and cleaner: a single post-and-panel or a short stone plinth that doesn't block foot traffic during Market week.
Local rules and permits
Freestanding signs inside city limits go through the City of High Point's zoning review and a sign permit before any footing is poured. The rules on size, height and placement change by zoning district, so a sign that is fine on a commercial corridor may not be allowed in front of a church in a residential district. We pull the current requirements for your parcel, draw the sign to fit them and file the paperwork. If you want to read the rules yourself, start with the City of High Point's own site, which points to the planning and inspections pages.
High Point also crosses county lines. Most of the city sits in Guilford County, but parts reach into Davidson, Randolph and Forsyth. That rarely changes the sign itself, but it can change who answers the phone about utilities, so we confirm the parcel before we promise a date.
What the ground and weather do to a sign
The Piedmont clay under High Point holds water. A heavy masonry sign set on a shallow pad will tip a little more every wet winter until the mortar joints open up. We dig the footing deep enough to get below the soft layer, add gravel for drainage and tie the base to it with steel, so the sign sits as level in ten years as the day it went in.
Weather is the other problem. Triad summers bring hard afternoon thunderstorms with wind that finds every loose cap and cracked panel, and a winter ice storm every few years will coat a sign face and freeze into every gap. We seal caps, use aluminum faces that won't swell, and mount lighting so water drains away from the wiring instead of pooling around it.
Nearby towns we also cover
High Point runs straight into its neighbors, and plenty of our jobs sit right on the line. Folks along the Main Street run toward GTCC often ask whether they count as High Point or not; we build on the Jamestown side of Main Street too, and the paperwork goes to whichever town holds the parcel. To the south, we also run out to the shops and churches over in Archdale, which tend to want the same brick-and-stone look. Kernersville, Greensboro and the rest of Guilford County are all within a normal day's drive for us.
Get a price
Send us a photo of the spot, the address and a rough idea of what you want the sign to say. We come out, measure the setback, check for buried lines and look at how traffic approaches. Every sign is quoted by size, materials and lighting, with a drawing and the price in writing before any digging starts. Showroom owners planning around Market week should reach out early so the install lands well before the buyers arrive. For a High Point sign, the fastest next step is the form on this page: fill it in, email the photo to jedsigns101@gmail.com, and we will reply with questions or a time to visit. Call us or send the form, whichever is easier.
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