Sign permits mark a business opening, rebranding, or moving, which makes them the clearest commercial-occupancy signal in the permit record. Tradewinds observes them in county permit records.
A sign filing on a commercial parcel usually means a new tenant, weeks before they open.
A replacement sign marks a business changing hands or identity, both of which precede other spending.
Sign work travels with interior fit-out filings on the same parcel, which dates the whole build-out.
Sign work is a small specialist field, so the active fabricators in a county are countable.
Every Monday we publish last week's sign permits for every county we cover. Browse this week's activity.
Tell us your territory and we will bring the data to the first call. See the counties and trades we cover on the coverage page, or the firms doing this work in the contractor registry.
Book a callBuilt from county permit filings. Not every filing names a trade cleanly, and counties differ in what they publish, so these counts reflect our coverage as much as the work happening on the ground.