Commercial

Awnings & canopies that make your business impossible to miss

Storefronts, entrance and walkway canopies, architectural metal, and signage — designed, fabricated, and installed by our own Connecticut crews since 1947.

What we build

Full-service commercial capabilities

From a single storefront awning to a full architectural canopy package — one shop handles design, fabrication, and installation.

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Storefront Awnings

Traditional and modern fabric awnings that give your storefront a finished, branded look and shade your windows.

Architectural Metal Canopies

Standing-seam and flat-panel metal canopies — engineered, durable, and built to define a building’s entrance.

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Walkway & Entrance Canopies

Covered walkways and cantilevered entry canopies that protect customers and elevate the facade.

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Signage & Graphics

Dimensional lettering and awning graphics that turn your building into a 24/7 sign.

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Design & Engineering

We work from your architect’s plans or design from scratch — permit-ready and code-compliant.

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Install & Maintenance

Our own crews install, and we service what we build — recovers, repairs, and seasonal care.

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Featured project

Steelpointe Foodland

A complete architectural canopy package for a 24-hour Connecticut supermarket & fuel center — a cantilevered entrance canopy, a full run of cable-stay window awnings, and a covered customer walkway, all designed, fabricated, and installed in-house to complement the building’s brick architecture.

  • Scope Entrance canopy · window awnings · covered walkway
  • Material Architectural black standing-seam & flat-panel metal
  • Build Designed, fabricated & installed by Manchester Awning
Finished Steelpointe Foodland 24-hour supermarket with black architectural metal canopies and brick signage tower by Manchester Awning
Storefront & signage tower
Black cantilevered metal entrance canopy over the doors at Steelpointe Foodland by Manchester Awning
Cantilevered entrance canopy
Cable-stay black metal window awnings on the brick facade at Steelpointe Foodland by Manchester Awning
Cable-stay window awnings
Long covered walkway canopy on steel columns at Steelpointe Foodland by Manchester Awning
Covered customer walkway
Full front elevation of Steelpointe Foodland showing the complete run of black metal awnings by Manchester Awning
Full front elevation

Recent commercial work

Built across Connecticut

Storefronts, restaurants, supermarkets, and retail plazas — architectural metal and fabric, all built and installed in-house.

Why Connecticut businesses choose us

One accountable team, start to finish

  • Since 1947. Nearly eight decades building for Connecticut businesses.
  • In-house fabrication. We build it — no middleman, no drop-shipped kit.
  • Permit-ready. We design to code and work from your architect’s plans.
  • We service what we build. Recovers, repairs, and seasonal maintenance.
  • Veteran-owned. Service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SBA).
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Black metal window awnings over café seating, a commercial install by Manchester Awning

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