Custom Signs Vaughan

Vaughan Metropolitan Centre sits at Highway 7 and Jane Street, built around the only subway stop outside the City of Toronto proper, an 8.6-kilometre extension with six new stations that opened in 2017. The KPMG Tower, a 15-storey, 355,000-square-foot Class-A office building, was the district's first major tenant and now houses KPMG, Harley Davidson, Miller Thomson LLP, GFL, FM Global, BMO, TD Bank, and Mark Anthony Cosmetics under one roof. A few blocks away, the PwC-YMCA Tower holds PwC's offices alongside a full YMCA and the city's public library. This is a downtown being built from scratch in real time, and it needs a completely different kind of signage than Woodbridge's long-established Italian-Canadian retail strip, or the small heritage art village of Kleinburg further north.

We design, manufacture, and install signage entirely in-house, and we work with Vaughan business owners online, by email and phone, rather than through a retail storefront.

Email: hello@branditt.ca

Signage for Vaughan Metropolitan Centre

VMC is expected to grow to roughly 45,000 residents as its residential towers fill out, on top of the thousands of people already working in its office buildings and using the subway daily. Multi-tenant Class-A towers like the KPMG Tower house half a dozen or more major corporate tenants sharing one lobby, which puts real weight on directory and wayfinding signage here, more than almost anywhere else in Vaughan.

What we build for VMC tenants:

• Directory signs, essential for multi-tenant Class-A towers housing several corporate occupants under one roof
• Monument signs for office and mixed-use development entrances
• Directional signs and wayfinding and utility signs for large floor plates, subway-connected underground pathways, and mixed-use buildings combining office, retail, and community space
• Office interior signs for reception branding
• Plaques, including metal plaques and acrylic wall plaques, for professional tenant branding
• Traffic and parking signs for structured parking connected to the subway station

Further reading: How Modern Lobby Signage Increases Property Value. Completed work: indoor signs portfolio.

Signage for VMC Ground-Floor Retail

VMC's development strategy has deliberately brought in retail and hospitality tenants, Balzac's Coffee Roasters among the first, to activate the ground floor of its office towers and create a genuine street-level district rather than just a collection of office buildings.

What we build for VMC retail:

• Channel letter signs for ground-floor cafés and retail
• Storefront and light box signs, including our lightbox signs
• Custom window decals for promotions and hours
• Blade signs, suited to the pedestrian-first street design VMC was built around, available illuminated, non-illuminated, as a lightbox, or as premium push-thru

Completed work: outdoor signs portfolio.

Signage for Woodbridge

Woodbridge, a few kilometres from VMC, carries Vaughan's long-established Italian-Canadian retail and restaurant identity, a genuinely different commercial character from the towers going up around Highway 7.

What we build for Woodbridge businesses:

• Channel letter signs for retail and restaurant storefronts
• Illuminated signs, covering front-lit, back-lit, and halo-lit options, plus push-thru signs
• Custom wall murals for restaurant interiors
• Monument signs for plaza entrances
• Free-standing letters and marquee signs

Further reading: How to Bring Customers In With Outdoor Signage. Completed work: outdoor signs portfolio.

Signage for Kleinburg

Kleinburg is a small heritage art village built around the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, with a commercial core of galleries, boutiques, and restaurants that has nothing in common with either VMC's towers or Woodbridge's retail strip.

What we build for Kleinburg businesses:

• Blade signs sized for Kleinburg's small-scale heritage storefronts
• Free-standing letters in quiet, gallery-appropriate finishes
• Custom window decals, kept minimal to avoid competing with gallery window displays
• Marquee signs, a natural fit for the village's heritage character

Completed work: outdoor signs portfolio.

Vaughan Sign Permits

The City of Vaughan has its own sign bylaw, separate from Toronto, Markham, or Richmond Hill. Kleinburg's heritage character adds design guidelines on top of the general bylaw for the village's small commercial core. Buildings within VMC, being recent, purpose-built development, typically carry detailed site plan and design guidelines set through the original development approval, on top of the general bylaw, since the entire district was master-planned around specific design standards.

Frequently Asked Questions

We're a new tenant in a VMC office tower. Is signage different for a building like the KPMG Tower or PwC-YMCA Tower? Often yes. Multi-tenant Class-A towers usually have building standards for tenant signage set by property management, on top of the City of Vaughan's general bylaw. We coordinate with building management as part of the process.

My storefront is in Kleinburg. Are there extra rules? Yes, heritage character guidelines sit on top of the general bylaw and can affect sign size, materials, and mounting style.

Do you do directory signage for large multi-tenant towers? Yes, this is a regular request from VMC's Class-A office buildings, which often house half a dozen or more major tenants.

Is there a minimum project size? No, from a single office sign to a full tower lobby package.

Do I need a permit? Most outdoor signs do, under the City of Vaughan's bylaw, with additional heritage review in Kleinburg and site plan conditions for VMC buildings.

Email hello@branditt.ca with your sign type, location, and timeline. We'll follow up with a quote.

Other cities we serve: Markham, Richmond Hill, Brampton, Toronto.