“When somebody like a bank calls and wants seven-foot letters 30 stories high, we can do it,” said Phil Fox, owner of Signs By Tomorrow Fort Worth. And he means that quite literally—a recent award-winning project for First Bank Southwest involved just that.

Like a lot of sign franchise owners, Fox had a background completely outside the sign business, and even outside the printing industry. Having spent the bulk of his career in the healthcare industry, he came out of retirement to purchase the local Signs By Tomorrow franchise from a friend. Part of his reason was an opportunity to work with his grandson.

When he heard the Signs By Tomorrow was up for sale, Fox said, “I thought the business had a lot of opportunity. I was retired at that point, and had a grandson that recently graduated from college who was enthusiastic about the possibility of getting into business with me. So that’s how we all got started.”