Asphalt Paving in Ridgeland, MS

Asphalt paving in Ridgeland covers two very different kinds of work. On one side are neighborhoods of single-family homes and apartments, many built during the city's fast growth from 5,461 residents in 1980 to 20,173 in 2000. On the other are some of the busiest commercial lots in the metro: Northpark Mall on County Line Road, which opened in 1984 and is the largest mall in the Jackson area, and the offices and shops along Highland Colony Parkway, built in the 1990s. We handle both, from a single driveway to repairs, sealcoating and restriping on a commercial lot.

No parking on the grass

Ridgeland's newcomer handout from the city is blunt about one rule: "Parking on grass and parking on the street is a violation of city parking ordinances." For households with more cars than driveway, that is often the reason for the call. Widening a driveway, adding a parking pad beside it or extending a turnaround gives the extra cars somewhere legal to sit. We plan the added width so water still runs to the street or yard, not toward the house, and we tie the new asphalt into the old so the seam does not open up later.

Built between a reservoir and a river basin

The Ross Barnett Reservoir borders Ridgeland on the east, and about 6 percent of the city's area is water. Most of the city drains south toward the Pearl River, while the northwest corner drains to the Big Black River. Madison County is also one of the counties where Yazoo clay is found, the expansive soil that city and state engineers blame for many of the humps and dips in central Mississippi roads. On a driveway that means checking for soft subgrade before paving and building a solid stone base, especially on low lots where runoff collects.

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Commercial lots and apartment communities

The 2020 census counted 12,420 housing units in Ridgeland, and a good share are in apartment communities with shared parking. Lots like these wear fastest at entrances, dumpster pads and the drive aisles where delivery trucks turn. A sensible maintenance plan is to cut out and patch failed spots, seal the cracks before water gets under the pavement, sealcoat, and restripe in one visit so the lot is closed as briefly as possible. We can phase the work in sections so residents and customers always have somewhere to park, and schedule around a property's busiest hours.

Office and retail schedules

Ridgeland is home to the headquarters of C Spire and Cal-Maine Foods, among other employers, and the Renaissance at Colony Park shopping center in the middle of the city. Commercial owners here usually want paving done overnight or over a weekend. Tell us when the lot is quietest and we will build the schedule around it, including cure time before striping and before traffic returns.

Planning the work

On a residential job we walk the driveway with you, check the edges and low spots, and give you a written scope that says what we will remove, how thick the base and asphalt will be, and how the surface will drain. On a commercial job we also map the parking layout so restriping matches what you have now, or improves it. Call (601) 708-8413 to set up a visit anywhere in Ridgeland.