Conway, Arkansas
Commercial Asphalt in Conway, AR
Commercial asphalt across Faulkner County: retail on Dave Ward, campus and church lots, and apartment parking, from a yard about thirty-five minutes up I-40.
Conway is the closest large market to our yard and one of the fastest growing places in Arkansas, which means a lot of its commercial pavement is young enough to save. That is the useful window. Asphalt that gets crack filled and sealed on a cycle stays a maintenance line item; asphalt that gets left goes to base failure and becomes a capital one.
Arkansas Pavement covers the whole sequence here: paving, repair, crack filling, sealcoating and striping. Most properties need two or three of those, in a particular order, and one crew running all of them means the honest answer is sometimes that your lot does not need repaving yet.
Commercial asphalt is priced off the surface itself, so the quote follows a walk of the property rather than a phone call. The estimate is free.
Faulkner County keeps building, and the parking follows
Retail along Dave Ward Drive and Oak Street, the college campuses, the churches, and apartment parking built for a student population all add up to a lot of commercial surface in a compact area. New rooftops keep pushing north up US 65 toward Greenbrier and east on US 64 toward Vilonia, and each of those developments arrives with parking attached.
Our shop sits in Hattieville, about thirty-five minutes away with most of the drive on I-40. That proximity matters more than it sounds: a job close to the yard is easier to schedule around weather, and sealcoating and striping are both weather-bound in ways crack filling and patching are not.
Conway sits in Faulkner County. We work out of Hattieville, AR.
Three campuses, flat ground, and a few lots that never empty
Three colleges sit inside the city, and their calendar moves a large share of Conway's parking demand. A student housing lot that is full in October is half empty in July. That is worth knowing, because sealcoating and striping both want warm dry weather, and the warm dry stretch lands in the same weeks those lots are quietest. The season for that work is short in Arkansas, so the dates worth having are the ones asked about early. The other thing about a student lot is move-in and move-out. Two days of loaded vehicles turning in tight aisles put more through a surface than the month on either side of them.
Conway sits where the Ozark foothills give way to the Arkansas River Valley, and the south and east side of town is the flatter ground. Flat ground gives water nowhere to go in a hurry. A lot out that way does not shed a storm so much as hold it in shallow pools until the sun takes them back. The useful thing is that those pools leave a mark. Dried silt and grit settle in a ring where the water stood, and the ring stays readable for weeks, so a walk on a dry day still shows you every low spot on the property. On a surface only a few years old those rings usually sit where the subgrade was compacted unevenly rather than where the cars go, which is why a lot that still looks new can already be holding water in the same two places every time.
Not every property here has a quiet hour. Anything running around the clock, medical among them, never fully empties, so the plan cannot hang on a time of day the way a school or a weekday office lot allows. What it hangs on instead is stall count: how many spaces the property can give up at once and still work, and where the accessible route runs while those spaces are out. Shift change is the pinch point, and it is worth naming before a date is set rather than after.
What we work on in Conway
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Retail and restaurant
Frontage stalls, drive-through lanes and the delivery access behind, which takes harder use than the customer parking in front of it.
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Campus and institutional
Large lots where phasing keeps the property usable while sections are worked.
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Churches
One heavy morning a week puts a different wear pattern on a lot than daily traffic does.
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Apartment and student housing
Resident parking where the work is planned around cars that never all leave at once.
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Office and medical
Weekday lots where striping and sealcoating carry most of the value.
Every service, one crew
Most lots need more than one of these, and the order they happen in matters. One crew covers all of it, so a single visit can handle more than one thing.
- Asphalt Paving New asphalt for commercial lots, drives and loading areas.
- Asphalt Crack Filling Sealing cracks before water reaches the base and turns them into potholes.
- Asphalt Sealcoating A protective coat that slows weather damage and restores a clean black finish.
- Asphalt Repair Patching and full-depth repair for potholes, failures and worn areas.
- Parking Lot Striping Layout, restriping and ADA markings that keep a lot legible and compliant.
Customer experiences
What customers say about the crew
5.0 from 19 Google reviews
Reviews from our Google Business Profile, listed under Brice Contracting, and under Straight and Narrow Striping before that. Same company, same crews, same phone number.
Brice Contracting did a great job sealcoating our driveway. Prompt, efficient, good communication, good price, thank you gentlemen!
Austin and his team communicated clearly on how repairs and seal coating would be done. This was a large project. They stayed within budget and had exceptional follow up.
Brice did an excellent job redoing our church parking lot, it looks so nice and clean. I highly recommend Brice Contracting for your job!
We needed some speed bumps installed in our parking lot. Brice made sure all of our needs were met, and went the extra mile to make us satisfied. His crew was timely, clean, and polite. On top of that, the work was done at a great price. Highly recommend.
Quality Work and Excellent Service! Austin was very communicative while developing the plan and executing the work.
Austin and Ethan showed up earlier than expected and took so much pride in their work. It looks amazing.
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Conway questions, straight answers
You are based in Hattieville. Do you really cover Conway?
Yes. The yard is about thirty-five minutes away, most of it on I-40, and Conway is the nearest large market to us. Getting a crew and equipment onto a Conway lot is about as straightforward as it gets for this company.
When is the right time of year for sealcoating in Conway?
Sealer needs the surface and the air above roughly 50 degrees and rising, and it needs that to hold while the coat cures, so the season runs through the warmer months rather than year round. Crack filling and patching are far less fussy and can be done across a much wider window, which is why they are often the right first move if you are coming to us late in the year.
Do you handle the striping too, or do we need a separate contractor?
We do the striping. It matters that the same crew does, because paint goes on last and only after any sealcoat underneath has cured. Splitting the two across contractors is how a surface ends up with paint that peels at the edges.
We manage student apartments. When should the lot be worked?
Between leases, if you can arrange it. A lot that stays full through the term gives you a real window in summer, and that window overlaps the season sealcoating and striping actually need, which is a rare piece of luck. The catch is that the same weeks are the only weeks for every property in town running on a campus calendar, so it is a short list of dates. If summer will not work for you, start with the cracks. Filling and patching are not waiting on the same weather, and they are what keeps water out of the base until a seal becomes possible.
Our lot was overlaid a few years back and the old cracks are coming through. Did the overlay fail?
Probably not. Cracks in an old surface tend to reappear in the new asphalt directly above them, along the same lines, because the movement underneath did not stop just because a fresh layer went on top. By itself that is a maintenance item, and those lines get cleaned out and filled like any other crack. What matters is whether they are staying as clean lines or whether the asphalt at the edges of them is crumbling away, because crumbling comes from below and a new layer did not fix it.
There is construction going on next door. Does that affect our lot?
It can, and it is worth watching while it is happening rather than after. Mud and rock get tracked across a neighboring surface and then ground into it under tires, and loaded trucks looking for room to turn will use whatever pavement is nearest, often across an edge that was never built to carry that weight. Sweeping the surface while the work next door goes on takes very little. Rebuilding an edge that a loaded truck has broken takes a good deal more.
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Need a lot looked at in Conway?
Call, or send the property details and someone will set a time to walk it. Commercial asphalt is priced off the surface itself, so the estimate happens on your ground and it is free.