Piscataway, New Jersey
Sign Company in Piscataway, NJ
Gogi Signs designs, builds, prints, installs, repairs and replaces business signs across Piscataway. We make building signs and dock numbers for the I-287 industrial sites. We make storefront and shopping center tenant signs. We also make the directories, ADA signs and wayfinding that office and research buildings need inside.
20+ Years Experience
Serving New Jersey Since 2005
In-House Production
Fabrication & Large-Format Printing
Commercial Installation
Insured Installation Crew
Piscataway & Middlesex County
Commercial Sign Service
Sign Company in Piscataway
A Commercial, Industrial and Research Market
Piscataway has no single old downtown. It is shaped by Interstate 287, Centennial Avenue, Rutgers, business parks and warehouses. Offices, shopping centers, health care and large multi-tenant buildings shape it too.
The Township’s zoning map has separate Commercial, General Business, Business Professional, Shopping Center, Hotel Conference, Light Industrial, Industrial, Education, and Education and Research districts. That list tells you most of what you need to know about sign work here. Around I-287, large industrial and business sites need building signs, warehouse signs and dock numbers. They also need shipping and receiving signs, parking and direction signs, and vehicle graphics. Near the stores and offices, the work shifts to channel letters, storefront signs and window graphics. It also covers directories, suite signs, reception signs and ADA signs.
One outside sign is often only part of the job. Since 2005, Gogi Signs has made signs all over Piscataway. That includes storefront signs, channel letters, dimensional lettering, office signs and warehouse signs. It also includes directories, ADA signs, window graphics, vehicle graphics and tenant changes.
Sign Rules by Zone
The District Decides the Allowance, and the Gap Is Large
A storefront and an industrial building in the same township work from very different numbers. Check this first, before anything is drawn.
- Commercial, General Business, Business Professional. One sign on the front of the building per permitted business. It is limited to 10% of the front wall area. That area includes the windows and doors in the part of the building the business uses.
- Projection. No more than six inches from the building.
- Shopping Center zones. A tenant with its own outside customer entrance may have a sign on the front of its space. It can be up to 10% of the front wall area for that use.
- Industrial districts. Signs on two separate façades, each limited to 150 square feet.
- Multi-business buildings. When several businesses share one building, their signs must be uniform in size, lettering, design and color.
- Illumination. The light source must be hidden from public view. Lit signs may generally stay on during business hours or until 10:00 p.m., whichever is later.
- No flashing. Lit industrial signs must not flash, and flashing signs are banned in general.
- No movement. Signs that move, or look like they move, are not allowed.
- Building permit. Signs larger than 32 square feet need one, on top of the sign permit.
- Education and Research zones. These have their own section. It covers building signs, direction and safety signs, and sign plans for a whole project.
The commercial limit is based on the wall the business uses. So a tenant should not size its sign from the whole building. The Township’s Construction Division runs its own building, electrical, fire protection and other code reviews. A large or lit sign may need more than one review. You or your landlord file the application. We help with drawings and paperwork, but we do not file permits for you.
Two Industrial Façades
Industrial Buildings Get Two Elevations, Not One
The industrial rules give large buildings much more room than a storefront. Each permitted industrial building may have signs on two separate façades. Each sign is limited to 150 square feet. Lit signs must not flash. Tenant signs must match when several businesses share the building, and a permit is required.
Next to the 10% commercial limit, that is a far bigger allowance. It exists because people reach these buildings in a different way. A second sign earns its place where a property has:
- Two customer approaches
- Parking on one side, deliveries on another
- A corner condition
- Multiple street-facing elevations
- Separate office and warehouse entrances
- Visitors and freight arriving from opposite directions
The test is whether the second sign solves a real problem. A visitor at the office door and a driver at the dock are looking for different things. A second sign that just repeats the first, on a wall nobody walks up to, uses a 150 square foot allowance to say nothing new.
Warehouse & Dock
The Sign Package Covers the Facility, Not the Entrance
The zoning code has separate rules for industrial districts because of the size and type of property there. On those sites, the signs must help people find their way around the whole site:
- Building identification: outside letters, logos and wall signs sized to the building and how people arrive
- Dock numbers: large, high contrast numbers for freight and loading spots
- Door numbers: overhead doors, service entrances, warehouse doors and work areas
- Shipping and receiving: freight areas marked apart from customer and staff entrances
- Entrance signs: visitors, employees, deliveries, service, receiving and pickup
- Parking and directional: customer and staff parking, loading, receiving, offices and getting around the site
- Interior facility signs: departments, rooms, warehouse zones, restricted areas and safety signs
- Vehicle graphics: the same brand carried off the site
Our Products
Signs We Make for Piscataway Businesses
Our New Jersey shop makes built, printed, outdoor, indoor, temporary and replacement signs for businesses across Piscataway.
Sign Cabinets and Replacement Faces
New faces, graphics, tenant changes and lighting service for cabinet signs that are still sound.
Window Graphics and Lettering
Business names, store hours, logos, printed graphics, privacy film, decor film and short term promos.
Lobby and Reception Signs
Dimensional logos, acrylic panels, metal letters, plaques and logo walls.
Directories
Building, floor, tenant, office and department directories, built so you can swap one tenant at a time.
ADA Signs
Tactile room signs, Braille signs, accessible restroom signs and direction signs.
Office and Suite Signs
Room numbers, office plaques, department signs, meeting room signs, nameplates and tenant signs you can swap out.
Parking and Directional Signs
Entrances, exits, visitor and staff parking, deliveries, pickup spots and directions around the site.
Banners and Temporary Graphics
Grand openings, building work, temporary business signs, leasing graphics and events.
Vehicle Graphics and Lettering
Business lettering, company logos, decals, DOT markings where required, contact details and fleet graphics.
How It Works
From Site Survey Through Installation
Gogi Signs has served New Jersey businesses since 2005. We handle the job from the first measurements through building, install, repair and future changes.
01
Site Survey
We measure the storefront, office, warehouse, building or indoor space. We note the existing signs, entrances and mounting conditions.
02
Design and Planning
We fit the artwork to your property, the sign area, the materials and how people will see it. We also follow how the building is made and the district’s rules.
03
Fabrication and Printing
Once you approve, we build it in our shop. That covers cutting, large format printing, vinyl, finishing and wiring where needed.
04
Installation
Our insured install crew sets up site access. They take down old signs when that is part of the job, then install the new signs and graphics.
05
Future Service
Later, lights may need repair, a tenant may change or a dock sign may get damaged. You may need another sign. We can come back to the property.
I-287 & Centennial
Corridor Properties Are Seen From a Distance and Entered Later
The I-287 corridor holds a large share of the township’s industrial and business property. Township documents have long named it a major nonresidential part of Piscataway. Signs there must work over a longer path than a storefront sign does:
- Viewing distance. Customers, drivers and staff may first see the building from a busy road or a drive inside the site, not from the front door.
- Building scale. Big warehouse and office walls need letters sized to the wall, not to the doorway.
- Multiple entrances. Visitor, staff, service, shipping and receiving entrances may each need their own sign.
- Internal circulation. Large sites need direction signs before anyone even reaches the building.
- Night visibility. Where allowed, a lit building sign helps businesses that work outside daytime hours. It must stay within the hidden light source and 10:00 p.m. limits.
The main sign names the company. Every sign after it gets people to the right spot on the property. On a large site, that is the harder half of the job.
Shopping Centers
Center Tenants Answer to the 10% Rule and the Sign Manual
A shopping center tenant with its own outside customer entrance may have a sign on the front of its space. It can be up to 10% of the front wall area for that use. That is the town’s half.
The other half is the property. Shopping centers often have their own sign manuals. These cover letter height, logo size, sign colors, lighting, raceways, mounting, window graphics and sign location. The Township’s code backs up the same idea. It says tenant signs in multi-business buildings must be uniform in size, lettering, design and color.
For a property manager, that rule is a chance, not a burden. Set the format once and you get a family of signs you can repeat. Tenant signs follow the approved format. Lobby directories have listings you can swap. Suite signs share sizes and materials. ADA signs match, and window graphics stay within the look. Parking signs cover visitors, tenants, staff and reserved spots. Direction signs cover building numbers, entrances, floors, deliveries and shared areas. The next tenant then fits into a set system instead of adding one more style that does not match.
Offices & Medical
Business Professional Districts Run on the Interior System
Piscataway has Business Professional districts and a lot of office and corporate space. There, the sign path goes well past the front door. A full package covers building signs and tenant signs. It covers lobby directories with tenant names, floors and suites, and reception signs. It covers suite signs with office names, room numbers, departments and tenant plaques you can swap. It also covers meeting room signs and ADA tactile and Braille signs. Privacy film goes on offices, meeting rooms, treatment rooms and glass walls. Wayfinding links parking, entrances, lobbies, stairs, elevators and each office. On a large business park, that spans several buildings.
Medical tenants test this system the hardest, because patients arrive at a place they do not know. They must find the right building, entrance, floor, practice and room. That is five choices. Directories, floor directories, reception and suite signs help. So do ADA room signs, restroom signs, privacy graphics, department signs, indoor wayfinding and notices when a practice moves.
The names must stay the same from the parking lot to the front desk. Store and office glass then carries the supporting details. That means the business name, hours, suite numbers, entrance notes, privacy film and short term promos. It can also carry leasing graphics for empty space where the property allows it.
Education & Research
Education and Research Properties Have Their Own Sign Section
Piscataway has its own Education and Education and Research zoning. That matters more here than in most townships, because of Rutgers and the research sites around it. The town’s sign code covers those zones in a separate section. It includes building signs, direction and safety signs, and sign plans for a whole project.
That last part is the useful one. The code expects a campus to be signed as a whole, not one building at a time. Packages here include building signs, department signs, research facility signs, directories and parking signs. They also include walking directions, safety signs, ADA signs, indoor room signs and temporary event graphics.
On a large campus, the consistency is the product. A visitor walking from one building to the next should not have to decode a new sign style, number system and color at every stop. That is what happens when each building gets signed on its own schedule by whoever was free.
Who We Work With
Businesses We Serve Throughout Piscataway
We work with warehouse and distribution sites along I-287 and corporate and medical offices in the Business Professional districts. We also serve shopping center tenants and the research and education sites between them.
Nearby service areas: Piscataway is one of the Middlesex County towns we serve from Linden. See our other New Jersey service areas too. We also serve nearby businesses through our Edison sign company, Somerset sign services and New Brunswick business signs pages.
Warehouse and Distribution
Building signs, dock numbers, shipping and receiving signs, parking signs, direction signs and vehicle graphics.
Corporate and Professional
Outside signs, directories, reception signs, suite signs, privacy film, ADA signs and indoor wayfinding.
Medical and Healthcare
Building signs, directories, reception signs, ADA signs, privacy graphics and direction signs.
Retail Stores
Storefront signs, channel letters, window graphics, temporary promotions and tenant changes.
Shopping Center Tenants
Storefront signs, channel letters, window graphics, indoor signs, new sign faces and sign removal.
Research and Education
Building signs, directories, room signs, ADA signs, direction signs and indoor signs.
Property Managers
Tenant changes, directories, replacement signs, parking signs, repairs and ongoing property signs.
Restaurants and Service
Outside signs, channel letters, window graphics, indoor signs and vehicle lettering.
Tenant Changeover
Existing Sign Infrastructure Can Often Be Reused
On industrial property most of all, much of what is installed describes the building, not the tenant. Dock numbers are often still correct when a whole new company moves in.
What you may inherit
- Sign cabinets and channel-letter raceways
- Electrical wiring and wall penetrations
- Window graphics and directory systems
- Dock numbers and parking signs
- Reception signs
A good cabinet may need only a new face. A directory may need just one tenant listing. Existing wiring or mounts may work with the new sign. Other parts come out because they are damaged, unsafe, out of date or a poor fit for the new business.
What the changeover covers
- Previous sign removal and site survey
- Building measurements
- New exterior identification and channel-letter replacement
- Sign-face replacement
- Window-vinyl removal and new window graphics
- Door lettering and directory updates
- Suite signs, dock identification and interior signs
- Temporary opening graphics, then final installation
Some property managers run office parks, shopping centers, industrial buildings or multi-tenant business property. For them, tenant parts built to be swapped one at a time keep the property looking the same as tenants change. The code’s uniform sign rule makes that more than a preference.
Repair & Refacing
Sign Repair, Refacing and Replacement
Piscataway has a lot of older business and industrial signs. LEDs fail, sign faces crack and letters come loose. Vinyl fades and directory details change. Dock numbers get damaged, tenant names change and indoor signs go out of date.
Gogi Signs repairs and updates business signs, even when another company built them:
- Channel-letter repair
- LED and electrical service
- Replacement sign faces
- Dimensional-letter repair
- Window-vinyl replacement
- Directory updates
- Tenant-panel replacement
- Dock-number replacement
- Sign removal
- Interior sign replacement
- New tenant conversion
- Facility sign replacement
If the old sign is still sound, a repair or a new face usually makes more sense than a new sign. On a sign over 32 square feet, it also avoids starting the building permit process again. When repair is no longer practical, we build a new sign to the district limit that applies.
Serving Piscataway
Serving Piscataway and Central Jersey
Gogi Signs serves business properties all over Piscataway, including businesses around:
- Interstate 287 Corridor
- Centennial Avenue
- Stelton Road
- Hoes Lane
- South Washington Avenue
- Business Park Properties
- Industrial Districts
The Township’s zoning reflects its wide business base. It has separate business, industrial, shopping center, hotel, education and research districts. The sign limit changes with each one.
We also serve New Brunswick, Edison, Somerset, South Plainfield, North Brunswick, Dunellen, Middlesex and nearby areas. Some businesses have several Central Jersey properties. Our New Jersey shop can be your one source for building and installing signs. Each address still gets handled to its own town and site conditions.
10% / 150 sq ft
Commercial vs industrial allowance
32 sq ft
Building permit threshold
Insured
Commercial installation crew
In-house
Fabrication & large-format printing
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Planning a Sign Project in Piscataway?
Maybe you need a warehouse sign, or you are moving into an office or opening in a shopping center. Maybe you are updating a medical practice, replacing an old tenant’s sign or adding directories. You may want company vehicles lettered or a sign repaired. In every case, start with the exact property address and photos.
Our New Jersey shop can handle it all. We take site measurements and make sign drawings. We build, print, install and repair signs, and we handle future sign changes.
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Here, the zoning district changes the sign limit a lot.
- 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 Piscataway
In the Commercial, General Business and Business Professional zones, the front sign may generally cover up to 10% of the front wall area the business uses. That includes the windows and doors in the part of the building the business uses.
Yes. Piscataway lets industrial buildings have signs on two separate façades. Each sign is limited to 150 square feet under the industrial zone rule.
Because people reach those buildings in different ways. Visitors, staff and freight often come from different directions and to different sides. One sign on one wall cannot serve all of them.
Tenants with their own outside customer entrance may have a front sign, within the 10% wall area limit. Most also have to follow the property’s own sign manual.
Yes. The code says signs larger than 32 square feet need a building permit on top of the sign permit. The Construction Division runs its own building, electrical and fire protection reviews.
The code generally allows lit signs during business hours or until 10:00 p.m., whichever is later. The light source must be hidden from public view, and flashing signs are not allowed.
No. Signs that move, or look like they move, are not allowed. So rethink any idea that depends on motion before you buy equipment. Window graphics, permitted banners and indoor displays are the usual options.
Yes. We make building signs, dock numbers, door numbers, shipping and receiving signs, parking signs, direction signs and indoor facility signs.
Yes. If your directory allows single tenant swaps, we make the panel or listing you need. We do not replace the whole system.
Send the exact property address and photos of the building or install area. Add your logo or artwork and photos of any signs already there. Include any landlord or property sign rules you have.