Summit View Village - Yakima Pylon Replacement
Plumb Signs · Real-World Signage · Yakima, WA
Replace one. Build for three.
Three new flex-face double-face cabinets on a re-engineered two-post pylon for Summit View Village at 5801 W Summitview Avenue, Yakima — engineering, removal, footings, structure, cabinets, and controls delivered by Plumb Signs as one program out of Tacoma.
Project Overview
Summit View Village sits on West Summitview Avenue in Yakima — one of the busiest retail corridors on the west side of the city. The property’s original road-facing identification was a single 8′-4¼″ × 24′-0¼″ double-face cabinet sign mounted on the existing footing. By the late 2010s the cabinet was end-of-life, the tenant mix had outgrown a single-panel sign, and the property needed an identification system that could carry multiple tenants cleanly and read at highway speed.
Plumb Signs delivered the full replacement program as a single engagement out of our Tacoma shop: removed and disposed of the existing cabinet and its footings, dug new structural footings, fabricated and installed two new structural steel posts, and built and hung three new flex-face double-face cabinets — two main tenant cabinets at 8′-6″ × 20′ and one secondary cabinet at 5′-6″ × 18′. All three internally illuminated with white LEDs, all three running on a single photo-eye control so the sign self-lights at dusk and turns off at dawn.
Flex faces are the standard at this scale — rigid acrylic or polycarbonate panels measured in tens of feet on a side warp and sag under Yakima Valley thermal cycling. Tensioned translucent flex over an aluminum frame holds tight through summer-to-winter swings and accepts tenant graphics that snap in from the outside.
Project Snapshot
At a Glance
(multi-tenant retail)
Yakima, WA 98908
Two Views · Built & Engineered
The Finished Pylon & the Drawings That Got It Permitted
The completed pylon on West Summitview Avenue, alongside the engineered structural drawings package Plumb Signs delivered — in-house shop drawings stamped by the structural engineer of record, packaged for the City of Yakima permit submittal. Click either tile for full-resolution.
Cabinets & Structure
Built to Carry Tenant Turnover
A multi-tenant pylon’s hardest job isn’t carrying its own weight — it’s carrying tenant turnover. Three independently faced cabinets on a single engineered structure mean tenant graphics can be added, swapped, or refreshed on each face without touching the steel, the footings, or the permit.
- Cabinet 1: 8′-6″ × 20′ double-face flex-face, 24″ deep
- Cabinet 2: 8′-6″ × 20′ double-face flex-face, 24″ deep
- Cabinet 3: 5′-6″ × 18′ double-face flex-face, 24″ deep
- Faces: Tensioned translucent flex, ready for tenant graphics
- Illumination: Internal white-LED, UL 48 listed
- Controls: Photo eye on lower cabinet, dusk-to-dawn auto, toggle switch preserved
- Posts: (2) 12″ square structural-steel tubes, .375″ wall
- Footings: (2) 6′ × 6′ × 8′ poured-in-place concrete
- Engineering: Plumb Signs shop drawings + licensed structural engineer of record stamp
- Load calc: Wind + dead load on three stacked cabinets at full installed height
- Permit: Single City of Yakima submittal covering structure, cabinets, and electrical
- Removed: Existing 8′-4¼″ × 24′-0¼″ D/F cabinet and its footings
Flex faces snap into the cabinet frame from the outside — which means a tenant face swap is a service call, not a fabrication-and-reinstall. For a property manager juggling lease cycles on a major retail corridor, that’s the difference between a sign that ages with the property and a sign that has to be replaced every five years.
Our Process
How a Multi-Cabinet Pylon Lands in One Mobilization
Four phases — engineering to commissioning — one shop.
Shop Drawings & Engineering
In-house drawings for cabinet geometry, panel layout, install details, and cabinet hang points; structural engineer of record sized the footings to site soil-bearing data and stamped the package.
City of Yakima Permitting
Single permit submittal covering structure, cabinets, and electrical — all coordinated in-house without a vendor handoff between drawings and submittal.
Fabrication in Tacoma
Aluminum cabinets welded, flex faces fit, white-LED banks wired and bench-tested; structural steel cut, welded, and finished for outdoor exposure across the Yakima Valley climate.
One Trip Across the Cascades
Existing cabinet and footings removed and disposed, new footings excavated and poured, posts set, three cabinets hung, electrical commissioned, photo eye wired — all on one Yakima mobilization.
Service Area
Commercial Signage Across the Yakima Valley
Plumb Signs is based in Tacoma and dispatches statewide for fabrication, installation, and service. The Yakima Valley and Central Washington are a regular travel corridor for us — Summit View Village on West Summitview Avenue is part of a larger pattern of commercial signage work we ship east of the Cascades.
We design, fabricate, engineer, permit, and install commercial signage — pylons, monuments, illuminated cabinets, flex-face wall cabinets, channel letters, wayfinding, ADA-tactile, and full retrofit / service programs — across Yakima, the Yakima Valley, and Central Washington.
Frequently Asked
About Multi-Tenant Pylons, Flex-Face Cabinets & This Project
Who built the Summit View Village pylon in Yakima?
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Replacing a tired pylon on a busy retail corridor?
If your property’s road-facing identification is end-of-life — or if the tenant mix has outgrown a single panel — Plumb Signs handles engineering, removal, structure, cabinets, and controls as one program. Tell us what you’re replacing.
