Speaking of the Old Bull building (apartment photos of which we featured yesterday), as of Tuesday mid-day crews were working on erecting the new signage/signature billboard that will perch on top of the old tobacco factory -- in a place where, Gary noted recently, the third floor once lived.
The crew working Tuesday was from Charlotte-based SignArt, a company specializing in "architectural identification products" whose work appears to include everything from Maryland-based Discovery Channel's corporate HQ to the wayfaring and exterior signs on the Concord Mills megamall.
The sign pieces being erected had some sort of design etched or penciled on them, but it wasn't obvious exactly what the sign will represent. Watch for progress down at Pettigrew and Blackwell over the next few days.
It will be a bull, modeled after the Bull Durham mascot. The bull's image will start out relatively small, in one corner of the sign, and grow larger.
Struever Bros. got the idea from the Natty Boh sign they placed atop the old National Bohemian brewery in the Brewer's Hill district of Baltimore.
Background on Baltimore's hometown beer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bohemian
Images:
http://frommyperspective.aminus3.com/image/2007-09-20.html
http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=13790
Posted by: Mike Woodard | April 16, 2008 at 04:31 PM