Design Review Meeting - April 28, 2026: Approval of Blade Sign for The Vault on Main
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Design Review Meeting - April 28, 2026
The Design Review Committee met on April 28, 2026, to consider a single item: a sign permit application for a blade sign at 424 Main Street, part of The Vault on Main mixed-use development. The project sponsor, Ross Murder, presented the proposal, and the committee unanimously approved the sign.
Discussion Items
- Ross Murder submitted a sign permit application for a double-sided blade sign on the Main Street side of the building. The sign is aluminum with internally illuminated channel letters for "VAULT" and non-illuminated cutout letters for "ON MAIN" with acrylic backing. Installation is planned for summer 2026.
- Committee members asked about the retail spaces on the ground level (approximately 4,700 square feet, divisible into 2–3 spaces, likely 2). Retail tenants are expected to come online in late summer or fall 2026, depending on market demand. The space includes a pre-installed grease trap for potential restaurant use.
- Questions about future tenant signage: Mr. Murder noted that tenant signs would be subject to a separate permit process, potentially on the canopy or brick-mounted. The blade sign is the only one possible due to structural steel support.
- The sign's color is a matte brass, intended to match the building's color scheme, not a bright white or message board. The committee expressed satisfaction with the design.
Key Outcomes
- A motion to approve the blade sign for The Vault on Main at 424 Main Street was made, seconded, and carried unanimously with no opposition. The approval is subject to a right-of-way permit from the city engineer's office.
Meeting Transcript
Good morning everyone. We'll go ahead and call this design review meeting for April the 28th to order. There's only one item in the downtown district and that's a submission by Ross Murder. I believe Ross is in the audience for us if you'd like to come up and state your business and tell us a little bit about it. Here today I've just uh submitted a site uh excuse me, sign permit application through the city process and then part of that process is this committee design review committee to review kind of the the redevelopment district um and so uh submitted the blade sign on the main street side of the building is what I'm looking for approval for today. So happy to answer any specific questions about the sign itself, um timeline process, um I guess I can just jump into the timeline of when it the install would be this summer. So is it double sided? Yes. And all the I guess only in one location, yeah. Yep. Not a limited. It is eliminated. Um the letters are in t internally eliminated. So it's an aluminum frame, aluminum faces, the vault word is a channel letter with internal elimination. Um the on main portion is not illuminated but cut out of the aluminum with acrylic backing. I have a uh general question about the uh pro the whole project on a whole. Um so how many um retail stores will you have on ground level? So there's roughly 4700 square feet. I think that can be divided into two, potentially three, but probably two spaces max. Um it could be a single space depending on the end user interests. Okay. Um when will when do you think those will come online to be able to be you know? The retail the retail part? Yeah. Um so the building will be finished this summer and it it wouldn't be before that. And so I from my experience, prospective tenants don't want to, you know, commit to a project until they know when they can open, and so yeah, that probably would really start this late summer fall if I had a guess. Okay. I mean it markets dependent on what you know who the protective tenants are and their timing. Um and then that's a space, is it geared towards any certain kind of tenant, or is it just general retail? Uh it's general retail. I mean it it's whatever I mean. I think the zoning is pretty broad here. Um the downtown district zoning that is, I think it's C2. So whatever falls into that category would be allowed by right. Um it is there's a space for a feature grease trap, grease interceptor, grease trap. Okay. Could be a restaurant, could be an office. Um kind of letting the market dictate, you know, the needs of potential business owners. So you did have the foresight to do the grease trap. That's right. So it's not installed, but there's a place for it. There it's installed, but it won't it's not usable until a tenant, I think, through the city process. A tenant, an end user tenant has to apply to actually be able to use it. So it's a good thing. Taps it or something like that. Okay. It's in the ground and it's there waiting for someone to come and operating permit to use it. Good. Okay. And then just you know, pass along that whenever those tenants come, whatever signage they have, you know, they'll have to do this process as well.
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