— Edgewater, New Jersey
Sign Company in Edgewater, NJ
Gogi Signs designs, fabricates, prints, installs, repairs and replaces commercial signs throughout Edgewater — storefront signs and channel letters along River Road, awnings and window graphics, and the directories, suite signs and ADA signage that mixed-use buildings need once the customer is inside.
20+ Years Experience
Serving New Jersey Since 2005
In-House Production
Fabrication & Large-Format Printing
Commercial Installation
Insured Installation Crew
Edgewater & Bergen County
Local Sign Service
— Sign Company in Edgewater
River Road Defines the Edgewater Sign Market
Edgewater has a very different commercial profile from most Bergen County communities. River Road carries restaurants, retailers, medical offices, professional services, shopping properties, mixed-use developments and high-rise buildings along a narrow waterfront corridor facing Manhattan.
That density changes how signs have to work. The Borough’s zoning includes mixed-use districts where retail, service businesses, professional and medical offices, hotels, restaurants and residential development occupy the same property, with some mixed-use regulations requiring multifamily residential to sit above first-floor retail or service-commercial space. One building can hold street-level retail, restaurants, offices, residential entrances, shared lobbies, parking structures and several commercial tenants at once.
The storefront sign is the first part of the package, not the whole of it: the customer still has to find the correct entrance, lobby, elevator, floor and suite. Gogi Signs has handled storefront signs, channel letters, awnings, window graphics, office signs, directories, ADA signage, tenant changes and recurring commercial sign work throughout Edgewater since 2005.
— Street and Sidewalk
Edgewater Storefront Signs Work at Two Distances
River Road businesses are seen from two positions — from a vehicle moving along a busy commercial corridor, and from the sidewalk at close range. One crowded sign does not have to carry every message.
01
Primary Storefront Sign
Business name and logo, readable from the roadway and the nearby pedestrian areas.
02
Awning or Canopy
A second sign surface that defines the individual tenant entrance within a larger building.
03
Window Graphics
Hours, secondary branding, services, temporary campaigns, privacy film and close-range information.
04
Door Graphics
Suite numbers, hours, pickup information, accessibility details and other practical messages.
05
Interior Identification
Directories, reception signs, ADA signs and suite identification once the customer is inside.
Edgewater’s mixed-use design standards give this weight. The Borough calls for ground-floor commercial properties to work at human scale — windows, doors, columns, awnings, canopies and signs together — and expects multi-tenant buildings to vary storefront treatments between ground-floor tenants. The sign is placed against the storefront bays, entrances, neighboring tenant signs and upper-floor architecture, so the largest blank area of wall is not automatically the right place for it.
— Sign Rules & Permits
Edgewater Sets Sign Size From Your Storefront Width
Article XVIII of the Borough’s Land Use and Development Code sets sign provisions for the B-1, B-2, B4, MXD-1, MXD-2 and MXD-3 districts. The limits key off the frontage the individual business occupies, not the width of the building.
- One sign per commercial use. Generally one wall-mounted sign, canopy or awning. A second sign may be permitted where the building fronts more than one street.
- Storefront width. The lettering or graphic panel may not exceed 75% of the linear width of the storefront.
- Letter height. Letters may not exceed two feet in height.
- Wall-sign area. Up to two square feet for each linear foot of front façade occupied by the business, within the same two-foot sign-height limit.
- Window signs. Window-display and affixed window signs may occupy no more than 30% of the total window area on which they are located.
- Valance lettering. Awning and canopy lettering must stay on the valance, may occupy no more than 75% of the valance width, and is limited to six inches in height.
- Valance height. The valance itself may not exceed one foot in height.
- Pedestrian clearance. Canopies, awnings and perpendicular signs extending over pedestrian areas need a minimum vertical clearance of 8.5 feet.
- Projection limits. Overall height is limited to five feet, and the feature must stay at least three feet from the curbline.
- District matters. Article XVIII applies different provisions by district and property type, and Edgewater’s commercial properties fall across several.
Accurate tenant-frontage measurements therefore come before artwork. In a multi-tenant River Road building the full building width is not the available sign width for one business.
— Awnings & Canopies
The Valance Is the Sign, Not the Whole Awning
Edgewater permits canopies, awnings and perpendicular signs to extend over pedestrian areas subject to the clearance and placement requirements above. What the awning rules change is where the graphics go: lettering belongs on the valance, at up to 75% of its width, with letters no taller than six inches on a valance no more than a foot high.
The full awning face is not available for oversized graphics, so the frame, valance depth, clearance and storefront width are worked out together. We fabricate:
- New fabric awnings
- Replacement fabric
- Business-name valances
- Logo graphics
- Custom-color awnings
- Replacement covers for existing frames
Existing frames are inspected before reuse. Perpendicular signs are permitted in applicable nonresidential districts under the same clearance framework, and suit businesses close to the sidewalk or within a row of tenants — restaurants, cafés, salons, specialty retail, professional services and ground-floor offices. At walking speed a short business name or a recognizable logo reads; a dense list of services does not.
— Window Graphics
Window Graphics Within the 30% Limit
Qualifying window signs may cover up to 30% of the total window area on which they are placed. That is a workable amount of space, and it goes further when the main storefront sign is already carrying primary identification and the glass is treated as supporting surface.
- Business information. Secondary identification, accepted payment information, memberships and required notices.
- Promotions. Product or sale information connected with the activity inside the business.
- Hours and entry details. Operating hours and entrance information at reading distance.
- Privacy. Frosted and decorative film for medical offices, professional businesses, salons, treatment rooms and glass-heavy interiors.
- Temporary campaigns. Opening graphics, events, seasonal messages and short-term promotions where permitted.
Privacy film is worth settling early on the River Road properties. A glass frontage that suits a retailer can leave a medical or professional tenant needing coverage across most of the same glass, and coverage film is planned differently from display graphics.
— Our Products
Signs We Make for Edgewater Businesses
Our New Jersey shop produces fabricated, printed, exterior, interior, temporary and replacement signage for businesses throughout Edgewater.
Storefront Signs
Custom exterior identification and fabricated sign panels, built around the actual tenant frontage, available sign area and building architecture.
Custom Awnings
Fabric awnings with business names, logos, custom colors and valance lettering, plus covers for sound existing frames.
Window Graphics and Lettering
Printed graphics, cut vinyl, logos, hours, privacy film and temporary campaigns inside the permitted window area.
Lobby and Reception Signs
Dimensional logos, acrylic panels, metal lettering, plaques and branded wall identification.
Directories and Wayfinding
Building, floor, tenant and department directories, plus the entrance, visitor parking, delivery and pickup signs that connect them.
ADA Signs
Tactile room identification, Braille signs, accessible restroom identification and directional signage.
Office and Suite Signs
Room numbers, office plaques, department signs, nameplates and replaceable tenant identification.
Banners and Temporary Graphics
Grand openings, tenant changes, events and construction-period identification where permitted.
Vehicle Graphics and Lettering
Commercial lettering, logos, contact information, DOT graphics where required, decals and fleet graphics.
— How It Works
From Site Survey Through Installation
Gogi Signs has served New Jersey businesses since 2005, and handles Edgewater projects from the first property review through fabrication, installation and later changes.
01
Site Survey
We measure the storefront, office, mixed-use property or interior area and document existing signs, windows, entrances, awnings and mounting conditions.
02
Design and Planning
Artwork is fitted to the actual tenant frontage, available sign area, building architecture, materials, customer approach and the district requirements.
03
Fabrication and Printing
Approved projects move through fabrication, cutting, large-format printing, vinyl production, finishing and electrical assembly where applicable.
04
Installation
Our insured installation crew coordinates site access, removes existing signage where that is included, and installs the completed signs and graphics.
05
Future Service
When a tenant changes, lighting needs repair, window graphics need replacement or an awning needs new fabric, we can return to the property.
— Mixed-Use Buildings
Mixed-Use Buildings Need Several Levels of Identification
Edgewater’s zoning supports properties where commercial space and residential development share a building, with mixed-use regulations placing multifamily residential above first-floor retail or service-commercial space. The result is a sign path rather than a single sign.
- Street Level : Storefront signs, awnings, window graphics and commercial entrance identification.
- Entrance & Lobby : Building identification, tenant information, directories and visitor information.
- Elevators & Corridors : Floor information, directional signs and suite identification.
- Inside the Business : Reception signs, office signs, privacy graphics and ADA identification.
— Restaurants
Restaurants on River Road Use Several Sign Surfaces
A customer may identify the restaurant from the road, then walk through a mixed-use property or shared commercial area before reaching the correct entrance. That distance is covered by more than the main sign, and a restaurant package can include:
- Main storefront sign
- Channel letters
- Dimensional lettering
- Custom awning
- Window graphics
- Door hours
- Pickup identification
- Menu graphics
- Interior wall signs
- ADA signs
- Temporary promotional graphics
- Valance lettering
Outdoor dining is where the ordinance narrows things. Edgewater restricts signage inside outdoor café areas: the local code generally allows signs on awnings that comply with the Borough’s sign ordinance, rather than allowing unrelated additional signs throughout the café area. The storefront and awning package is therefore settled first, and the outdoor dining graphics are planned within it rather than added afterward.
— Permits & Zoning
Article XVIII and the Zoning District Come First
Edgewater requires a sign permit, and the application asks for applicant and property-owner information, owner consent where applicable, a scaled sign rendering, sign composition, colors, dimensions, elevation above grade, lighting, the property address, existing signs, proposed sign information and the attachment method.
A replacement sign may receive administrative approval when it stays within the permitted physical limits and complies with the current ordinance. Noncompliant signs, and certain changes connected with occupancy or ownership, may require review by the appropriate approving authority — which is why the condition of the sign already on the building matters when a new tenant takes over.
Before fabrication we need the exact address, the zoning district, the tenant frontage, the building frontage, the sign type, existing signage, awning or canopy conditions, window area, illumination, property-owner criteria, and any mixed-use or redevelopment requirements that apply. The application is filed by you or your landlord. We assist with permits; we do not file them on your behalf.
— Who We Work With
Businesses We Serve Throughout Edgewater
River Road retail and dining, medical and professional offices inside larger properties, the mixed-use buildings that hold both, and the managers who turn them over.
Retail Stores
Storefront signs, channel letters, dimensional lettering, window graphics, awnings and temporary campaigns for River Road and neighborhood retail.
Restaurants and Cafés
Exterior signs, awnings and valance lettering, window graphics, pickup graphics, menu displays and interior identification.
Medical and Healthcare
Exterior identification, directories, reception signs, privacy film for treatment rooms, ADA signage and interior directional signs.
Professional Offices
Tenant signs, building directories, suite identification, reception logos, privacy graphics and replaceable office signage.
Mixed-Use Buildings
Ground-floor storefront signs, entrance identification, lobby directories, suite signs, ADA signs and interior wayfinding.
Property Managers
Tenant changes, directory updates, replacement signs, window graphics, leasing graphics, repair work and sign removal.
Salons and Personal Services
Storefront signs, privacy film, window graphics, awnings, reception signs and interior branded graphics.
Multi-Location Businesses
Recurring signage adapted to each property and municipality rather than duplicating one sign size across every address.
— Tenant Changeover
Moving Into an Existing Edgewater Commercial Space?
Very little on a River Road property arrives empty. What is already mounted decides how much of the project is fabrication and how much is conversion — so it is surveyed before anything is quoted as a replacement.
What you may inherit
- Channel-letter mounting and existing electrical wiring
- Wall-sign attachment points
- Awning frames and canopies
- Window vinyl and door lettering
- Directory systems and suite signs
- Reception signs and interior directional signs
An existing mounting location may work for the new sign, a sound awning frame may be recoverable, a directory may need one panel changed, and existing electrical infrastructure may support new illuminated letters. Other components come out because they are damaged, outdated or unsuitable for the new business.
What the changeover covers
- Previous tenant sign removal
- Existing-condition survey and storefront measurements
- New exterior identification and channel-letter replacement
- Wall-sign replacement and awning recovering
- Window-vinyl removal and new window graphics
- Door lettering and directory updates
- Suite signs and reception identification
- Temporary opening graphics, then final installation
Tenant changes are normal building operation on Edgewater’s mixed-use properties. Where the tenant-specific pieces are individually replaceable from the outset, the next changeover is a panel swap rather than a rebuild.
— Repair & Refacing
Sign Repair, Refacing, and Replacement
There is a substantial amount of existing commercial signage along River Road and through Edgewater’s mixed-use properties. LEDs fail, letters loosen, sign faces fade, vinyl wears, awning fabric ages, electrical components fail, tenant names change and directory listings go out of date.
Gogi Signs repairs and updates commercial signs even when another company originally fabricated them. Common service work includes:
- Channel-letter repair
- LED and electrical service
- Wall-sign replacement
- Dimensional-letter repair
- Awning recovering
- Window-vinyl replacement
- Directory updates
- Tenant-panel replacement
- Sign removal
- Interior sign replacement
- New tenant conversion
- Replacement sign faces
Where the existing structure remains useful, repair or refacing usually makes more sense than complete replacement. Where continued repair is no longer practical, we fabricate new signage — and a replacement that stays within the permitted physical limits is the version most likely to clear administratively.
— Serving Edgewater
Serving Edgewater and Bergen County
Gogi Signs serves commercial properties throughout Edgewater, including businesses along and around:
- River Road
- Old River Road
- Edgewater Commons
- City Place
- Waterfront Mixed-Use Properties
- Neighborhood Commercial Areas
Edgewater’s zoning framework supports retail, restaurants, offices, medical businesses, hotels and mixed-use development across several commercial districts, concentrated along the River Road corridor.
For businesses with additional locations elsewhere in Bergen County — Fort Lee, Palisades Park, Fair Lawn, Paramus, Hackensack, Englewood, Ridgefield and the surrounding towns — our New Jersey shop can maintain common artwork and production standards while adapting each sign package to the individual municipality and building.
2005
Serving New Jersey since
75%
Of storefront width, for lettering
Insured
Commercial installation crew
In-house
Fabrication & large-format printing
— Get Started
Planning a Sign Project in Edgewater?
Whether you are opening a River Road storefront, taking over a restaurant, moving into a mixed-use commercial property, updating a medical office, replacing channel letters, recovering an awning, adding window graphics, updating a directory or repairing existing signage, start with the exact property address and photographs.
Gogi Signs can handle site measurements, sign drawings, fabrication, large-format printing, installation, repair and future sign changes from our New Jersey shop.
Also working nearby
- Bergen County
- Fort Lee
- Palisades Park
- North Bergen
- Hackensack
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- Serving New Jersey since 2005
- In-house fabrication and printing
- Insured installation crew
- Repair and refacing on existing signs
— FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions About Signs in Edgewater
In several Edgewater commercial and mixed-use districts the lettering or graphic panel may not exceed 75% of the linear storefront width, and letters may not exceed two feet in height.
Applicable commercial wall signs may generally use up to two square feet of sign area for each linear foot of the front façade occupied by the business, subject to the other dimensional limits in the ordinance.
Edgewater limits qualifying window signs to 30% of the total window area on which they are placed.
Yes, subject to the local awning-sign rules. Lettering is generally limited to the valance, up to 75% of its width, with letters no higher than six inches, and the valance itself may not exceed one foot in height.
Applicable awnings and canopies may extend over pedestrian areas when they maintain at least 8.5 feet of vertical clearance, stay within a five-foot overall height and remain at least three feet from the curbline.
Yes. Article XVIII of the Borough’s Land Use and Development Code contains the sign-permit requirements and specifies the information that must be supplied with the application. The application is filed by you or your landlord; we assist with the drawings and dimensions it asks for.
Sometimes. Edgewater permits certain conforming replacement signs administratively when the replacement stays within the permitted physical limits and complies with the ordinance. We inspect the existing structure, wiring and mounting before deciding what can be reused.
Yes. We produce storefront signs, entrance identification, directories, suite signs, reception signs, ADA signs, privacy graphics and interior directional signage for mixed-use and multi-tenant properties.
Yes. We inspect existing commercial signage and determine whether repair, component replacement, refacing or complete replacement is the better route.
Send the exact property address, storefront or building photographs, your logo or artwork, photographs of existing signage, and any landlord or property sign requirements you already have.