Sign permits · Maryland

Where Maryland puts up signs, permit by permit.

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.

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What a sign permit tells you.
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New business signage

A sign filing on a commercial parcel usually means a new tenant, weeks before they open.

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Rebrands and replacements

A replacement sign marks a business changing hands or identity, both of which precede other spending.

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Commercial occupancy

Sign work travels with interior fit-out filings on the same parcel, which dates the whole build-out.

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The firms that file

Sign work is a small specialist field, so the active fabricators in a county are countable.

4572
sign permits observed in Maryland, since January 2019

By county

Baltimore 2094
Howard 1645
Frederick 427
Anne Arundel 207
Carroll 199

By year

2021 288
2022 998
2023 893
2024 834
2025 871
2026 688
Contractors on record, by county

Every firm below filed permits we observed in that county. Counts are what we hold, so they reflect our coverage as much as the work happening there.

All Maryland sign contractors

Other trades in Maryland

Sign in other states

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Every Monday we publish last week's sign permits for every county we cover. Browse this week's activity.

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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.

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Built 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.