
Pollitt Signs and Graphics — Harford County
Custom building-mounted wall signs — flat panels, dimensional letters, and illuminated channel letters — fabricated and wired in-house by our own licensed electricians. Serving businesses in Joppa and Harford County since 1947.
Wall signs mount directly to your building and are the most direct way to put your name on your storefront — flat panels, dimensional letters, channel letters, and raceway-mounted systems, built to match your brand and your building's construction. Every sign is fabricated in-house at our Havre de Grace, MD shop, in aluminum, acrylic, PVC, HDU, wood, or metal, with mounting matched to your wall surface — brick, EIFS, stucco, or metal panel. Because we have licensed electricians on staff, illuminated wall signs — channel letters, backlit letters, and lightbox panels — are wired, permitted, and installed entirely in-house, with no outside electrician to schedule around. Our in-house permit department handles the applications, zoning variances, and landlord approvals that wall sign projects often require.
The Route 40 and I-95 interchange near Joppa is one of Harford County's busiest commercial nodes, with gas stations, hotels, fast food, and retail competing for highway travelers' attention. Signs here need to be highly visible at highway speeds — large, illuminated, and readable from both directions on Route 40. The Joppa Road corridor extending south toward the Gunpowder River serves a different mix of industrial tenants, contractors, and neighborhood retail businesses with different signage needs. We've built pylon signs for the interchange area and wall signs, channel letters, and monument signs for the surrounding commercial streets.
All wall signs installations in Joppa require sign permits through the Harford County Department of Planning and Zoning. As a Harford County sign company with over seven decades of permitting experience, our dedicated permit department handles the application, setback compliance review, and any variance requests. Harford County routes sign permit applications through its Planning and Zoning office, and most standard applications are reviewed within 2–4 weeks of submission. Illuminated signs and any request that exceeds the standard height, size, or setback limits for the property's zoning district typically require a variance hearing before the county's Board of Appeals. You focus on your business; we handle the paperwork.
Joppa's high-traffic interchange location shapes how we approach wall signs here. Building-mounted signs at an interchange compete with pylon signs and canopy signage for the same glance, so we size wall signage to be legible against that visual competition and coordinate placement with any freestanding signage on the same property.
One shop, every step
From first sketch to final installation, every step happens under our roof with our people. No subcontractors. No handoffs.
Free on-site evaluation. We assess your location, discuss your vision, and recommend the right sign for your business.
Our designers create custom concepts tailored to your brand. You stay involved at every step until the design is right.
Our full-time permit department handles all paperwork and local regulations so you don't have to.
Every sign is built in our Havre de Grace facility by trained sign-builders. No subcontractors.
Our own crews handle every installation. Licensed electricians on staff for illuminated signs.
Maintenance, repair, and refurbishment for the life of your sign. We stand behind our work.
We'll visit your Joppa location, assess your needs, and provide a free, no-obligation estimate.