Your Metairie sign company
Signs for Metairie businesses
Metairie storefronts, offices and medical buildings compete for attention every day. OPA Signs & Graphics designs, builds and installs custom signs that fit the building and get noticed.
Whether your building faces Veterans Boulevard or sits on a quiet street in Old Metairie, your sign is made in our own New Orleans facility a few miles away.
Why Metairie businesses choose OPA
Signs that fit the building
A retail business may be working with a storefront that doesn’t fit its new brand. A medical office may need exterior identification that suits a modern building. A developer may need several tenant names to work together.
Sometimes the answer is illuminated channel letters. Sometimes it’s a monument, dimensional letters or a coordinated graphics package. We start with the space and choose what fits it.
How a Metairie sign project works
Hard questions answered before production
An unusual building brings real questions about mounting, materials, access and coordination. We work through those with architects and contractors first. Read about our process.
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Start with the building and the brand. Is the storefront fighting your new logo? Does a medical office need to be found from the street? Do several tenants have to share one facade? The answer shapes everything that follows.
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Curved glass, mixed materials or a plain strip-center fascia: we design to the architecture you have. That may mean channel letters, a monument, dimensional letters or a full graphics package.
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You approve drawings before fabrication. Because Metairie is unincorporated, the permit goes through Jefferson Parish, and we prepare the technical drawings that filing needs.
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Letters, trim, window film and printed graphics are all produced in our 40,000-square-foot shop, so finishes match across every piece of the job.
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We plan mounting, electrical and access with your contractor or landlord, then install with our own crews. A 12-month warranty covers the finished work.
Elmwood work, minutes from Metairie
GULF COAST BANK
One brand, from the parking lot to the interior
The architects at EskewDumezRipple+ designed a branch with curved glass, sweeping lines and an unconventional roofline. We built channel letters that follow the curved facade and custom metal trim that carries the bank’s wave identity into the roofline.
Inside: precision-cut frosted window film, ADA and directional signs, and large-format graphics printed on brushed metal. Read the full story.
DISTRICT DONUTS
LED neon in a crowded center
Surrounded by bold channel letters, this donut shop needed a different way to stand out. We used every inch of the frontage and traced the logo in LED neon.
YOUR COMPLETE METAIRIE SIGN PROVIDER
Storefront, office or medical building
We start with the space and choose what fits it, not an off-the-shelf answer. Send a photo of the building and tell us what the sign needs to do.
What we make for Metairie:
ADA room signs for offices and medical buildings
Window vinyl and frosted film
Who issues the permit? Metairie is part of unincorporated Jefferson Parish, so sign permits go through the parish. OPA handles permitting for clients who build their project with us.
Several tenants, one property? We can design the tenant names to work together without losing the character of the building.
Start your Metairie sign project
Opening, rebranding or refreshing a storefront?
Send us a photo of the building, the plans or just the idea, and we’ll come back with options that suit the property.
Working elsewhere in the parish? Visit our Jefferson Parish sign company and Kenner sign company pages.
KEEP EXPLORING
Lit letters, lobby logos and more
See channel letters, dimensional letters, ADA room signs and wallpaper and murals for ideas that suit a Metairie storefront or office.
Metairie sign FAQs
Have a question about a sign in Metairie?
The answers below cover what we hear most.
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A short drive. Our shop is in New Orleans, and we design, build and install every project ourselves.
How far is your shop from Metairie?
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Can you match a sign to an unusual building?
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Yes. Curved facades, glass and mixed materials are the projects we enjoy most. Gulf Coast Bank in Elmwood is a good example.
My storefront doesn’t fit my new brand. Where do we start?
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With a photo of the building. We look at the space first, then recommend letters, a monument or a graphics package that fits it.
What warranty comes with a new sign?
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Twelve months, on every project we build and install.
Do Metairie sign permits go through Jefferson Parish?
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Yes. Metairie is unincorporated, so the parish issues the permit. We handle permitting for clients who build their project with us.