Driveways & Parking Lots

Commercial driveways, access roads, and parking lots serve a different load demand than residential — delivery trucks, heavy equipment, and high vehicle frequency require proper subgrade preparation, adequate base depth, and drainage that handles commercial-scale impervious surface runoff. Ground Co. builds commercial access infrastructure throughout Greater Cincinnati, from gravel construction access roads to permanent commercial drive entrances and parking area subgrades.

Parking lot subgrade preparation is one of the most important — and most frequently skipped — components of long-lasting commercial paving. Poor subgrade is the primary cause of premature commercial parking lot failure. We prepare subgrades to the specifications required by your paving engineer, removing unsuitable material, ensuring proper compaction, and establishing the design grade before the paving contractor arrives.

Larger commercial access road networks — for industrial parks, agricultural operations, or rural commercial developments — require road design considerations including horizontal and vertical alignment, drainage on both sides of the road, culvert sizing for cross-drainage, and surface management strategies. We build these systems to standards that keep your operations moving year-round.

Construction access roads are often treated as an afterthought, but a poorly built construction entrance becomes a problem immediately — trucks track mud onto public roads, Ohio EPA gets called, and you're dealing with a nuisance that should have been handled upfront. We build construction entrances that actually work: geotextile base, proper depth of clean stone, and a configuration that shakes mud off tires. ODOT and local municipality requirements for construction entrances on state and county roads are something we understand and comply with.

Geotextile fabric under commercial aggregate base isn't optional when subgrade conditions are poor — and in Greater Cincinnati's clay-heavy soils, subgrade conditions are frequently poor. Fabric prevents the aggregate base from migrating down into soft clay subgrade over time, which is exactly what causes parking lots and access drives to fail prematurely. We specify and install fabric as a standard practice on commercial base construction where subgrade soils warrant it.

We work across Greater Cincinnati's commercial real estate landscape — industrial facilities and warehouses in the Northern Kentucky corridor from Florence to Erlanger, business parks in Mason and West Chester, agricultural and rural commercial properties throughout Clermont and Warren counties, and infill commercial development in established Hamilton County neighborhoods. The access infrastructure needs of each of these contexts are different, and we build accordingly.