The City of Casa Grande has won a $10,000 grant from the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) to develop a Historic Landmark Sign Preservation Program. This program will allow the City to work collaboratively with the Historic Preservation Commission to preserve the City’s historic sign legacy.
Currently, the City of Casa Grande has many signs that have a unique character, identity, or history, but are without historic preservation protection.
As part of this newly funded initiative, the City will hire a consultant to conduct a “Historic Resource Sign Survey” and prepare a “Local Register Nomination” to SHPO. A future project that could benefit from the sign landmark project is the creation of a “Sign Park”, which has been the vision of the Historic Preservation Commission. The sign park would incorporate signs donated by property owners, whose signs are identified as a “historic landmark” with the Historic Landmark Sign Preservation Program.
Once completed, the program will establish a local landmarks sign ordinance, designated signs as local landmarks, preservation of sign landmarks, a sign treatment plan and a sign mapping database/web page.