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Mixed-use developments, like many that Metro is involved with, continue to be strong.
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Meet Bristol’s Grammar Vigilante: Correcting Punctuation One Sign at a Time
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Meet Bristol’s Grammar Vigilante: Correcting Punctuation One Sign at a Time

For over a decade, he has been prowling the streets of Bristol, donning a black coat and hat as he corrects the punctuation on the city's business signs.
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The Power of Outdoor Signage: Attracting Customers in Real Life
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The Power of Outdoor Signage: Attracting Customers in Real Life

Outdoor signage, particularly vehicle wraps, and large, attention-grabbing exterior building signs, are often overlooked in marketing budgets. Ironically, they are consistently high-payoff investments, driving local search and traffic both online and offline. Translation: Do you want to attract customers in real life? Make sure your signage is showing them the way!
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Dubai Airport Chooses Bright Green Technology to Illuminate New Wayfinding LED Signage
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Dubai Airport Chooses Bright Green Technology to Illuminate New Wayfinding LED Signage

Metro Sign and Awning's insight: More and more airports are choosing to implement digital signage, and Dubai Airport is the latest to take advantage of this technology. Thousands of signs in one terminal have already been upgraded with Bright Green Beam, with all other terminals to be upgraded soon. These signs are easy to install, require little to no maintenance, and are energy efficient. The airport is currently the busiest in the world, and hopes these upgrades will aid in expansion efforts for the year 2020.
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Boston City Council Discusses Sidewalk Signs
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Boston City Council Discusses Sidewalk Signs

The Boston City Council has a Special Committee on "Small Business, Entrepreneurship & Innovation." This Committee is going to take...
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Digital signage, it’s not just for lobbies anymore
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Digital signage, it’s not just for lobbies anymore

Digital signage expert blogger looks at a variety of interesting use cases for digital signage in business, education and health care settings.
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5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Green Signage
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5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Green Signage

There's a lot of talk about "green" these days because many firms are jockeying to position themselves as environmentally conscious...
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Neon Signs Face Regulations, New Technology
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Neon Signs Face Regulations, New Technology

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For decades, old-school neon signs have been fading across New England and replaced with back-lit box signs or LED signs.
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Signs That It’s Still A Great Country
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Signs That It’s Still A Great Country

While Metro Sign & Awning has long been happy to call Boston our home, we nevertheless get excited when we're...
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Press Release

Metro Sign and Awning's insight: A Supreme Court decision regarding sign code was made last week for the first time...
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Plainridge Park Casino formally opens its doors in Plainville
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Plainridge Park Casino formally opens its doors in Plainville

At least one Springfield resident was among the first customers at the slots parlor, the first casino to open under Massachusetts' 4-year-old expanded gaming law.
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Panasonic buys indoor video signage firm
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Panasonic buys indoor video signage firm

Panasonic is growing its digital sign capabilities, buying privately held MagicInk Interactive LLC, a provider of hardware, software and integration services for digital indoor networks, the company said Monday.
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Toronto City Hall?s new wayfinding and transit screens could soon be rolled out city-wide
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Toronto City Hall?s new wayfinding and transit screens could soon be rolled out city-wide

Toronto gave its City Hall a digital facelift on Monday, unveiling a new interactive wayfinding station and a transit information display that
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Biotech company crafts glasses-free 3D digital signage at ASCO 2015
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Biotech company crafts glasses-free 3D digital signage at ASCO 2015

Magnetic 3D showcased its abilities with glasses-free 3D digital signage at the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting.
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New Supreme Court Ruling on Signage
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New Supreme Court Ruling on Signage

The Supreme Court has been much in the news recently, but hardly any of the media noticed or reported on...
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Boston councilor pushes for review of sandwich-board sign rules
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Boston councilor pushes for review of sandwich-board sign rules

Councilor Michael Flaherty calls the rules for the ubiquitous sandwich-board signs confusing and inequitable.
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Samsung Expands Integrated SMART Signage Portfolio with New Indoor and Outdoor LED Solutions
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Samsung Expands Integrated SMART Signage Portfolio with New Indoor and Outdoor LED Solutions

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. is showcasing the latest additions to its 2015 SMART Signage portfolio at InfoComm 2015, representing solutions for
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Signage nearly complete along Mississippi River Trail
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Signage nearly complete along Mississippi River Trail

The Mississippi River winds south from its headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, cutting the continental United States in half. For hundreds of years, the river has inspired storytellers and songwriters, but most recently it inspired another group: Cyclists. Signs are being installed this ...
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Signage Quiz Number 4 in a Series
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Signage Quiz Number 4 in a Series

How much do you really know about signs and signage? Avid readers of this Metro Sign and Awning blog are...
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NIH acquires mobile, kiosk and digital signage wayfinding solution
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NIH acquires mobile, kiosk and digital signage wayfinding solution

The National Institutes of Health has picked Connexient's MediNav digital wayfinding and patient experience solution for its Clinical Center Complex on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland, Connexient CEO Mark Green announced today.
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