Your parking lot is the first thing customers see — and a liability if it's not maintained. Laredo Asphalt Co. builds, resurfaces, repairs, and stripes commercial lots across the South Texas border region, scheduled around your hours.
Protect your property and your customers — call Laredo Asphalt Co. at (956) 476-7635 for a parking lot assessment and a written bid.
Downtime costs you customers. We plan commercial projects in phases, overnight, or on weekends so your lot stays usable and your business keeps running.
Commercial pricing scales with area, so per-square-foot rates drop as lots get larger. These are the ranges to budget against before you go out to bid.
| Project | Typical range | What drives it |
|---|---|---|
| New lot construction | $2.50–$6/sq ft | Base depth, asphalt thickness, and site drainage work |
| Resurfacing / overlay | $1.75–$4/sq ft | Requires a structurally sound existing base |
| Sealcoating | $0.20–$0.50/sq ft | Area, surface condition, and number of coats |
| Striping (restripe) | $0.30–$0.60 per linear foot | Line footage, layout complexity, paint vs thermoplastic |
| Striping (per stall) | $5–$12 per stall | Standard stalls; ADA stalls and signage cost more |
| Full-depth patching | $8–$18 per sq ft | Saw-cutting, excavation, and base rebuild |
These are typical Texas market ranges for 2026, published so you can budget before you call. They are not a quote — actual pricing depends on your specific site, and the only number that counts is the written estimate the contractor hands you after measuring.
The single biggest lever. Mobilising crew and equipment is a fixed cost, so a 20,000 sq ft lot costs meaningfully less per foot than a 3,000 sq ft one.
A lot serving passenger cars needs far less structure than one taking delivery trucks or dumpster service. The build is specced to your actual traffic, not a generic number.
Keeping half the lot open while we work, or paving in sections across multiple nights, costs more than closing it for two days. Often it's worth it — that's your call to make.
Overnight and weekend work carries a premium, but for retail and medical properties the avoided downtime usually more than covers it.
A lot needing only a surface course is a different project from one where sections must be excavated and rebuilt first.
Simple restriping is inexpensive. A full layout change with new ADA stalls, signage, and directional markings is a larger line item.
Send us the address and approximate square footage — the lot gets walked and a clear, itemised bid put in writing.
Most property owners treat pavement as something to deal with when it breaks. That's the most expensive possible approach anywhere — and it is a worse one here, because Laredo lots take a kind of punishment most of the country's do not.
Laredo is the busiest land port in the Western Hemisphere and one of the top three US ports of entry by trade value, with millions of commercial trucks crossing a year. Yards, staging areas, drayage facilities and distribution lots here carry axle loads that a retail parking lot never sees. Put those loads on asphalt that has been sitting in South Texas summer heat and the binder is at its softest exactly when the traffic is at its heaviest. That combination is what produces rutting, and rutting is a structural problem wearing a cosmetic disguise.
A rut is the surface being pushed sideways because what is underneath it cannot spread the load. Milling and repaving the top two inches makes it disappear for a season and then it comes back in the same wheel paths, because nothing about the cause changed. A lot built for truck traffic needs the depth and the compacted base to match — specced from the loads it will actually carry, written on the bid, and verified during construction rather than assumed.
Deferred pavement maintenance is not free — it's borrowed at a steep rate. Industry pavement studies have long observed that letting a surface deteriorate into the failure stage multiplies the cost of restoring it several times over compared with maintaining it while it's still sound. Every year of postponement raises the eventual bill.
For a typical commercial lot: crack seal as cracks appear, sealcoat every two to three years — the UV load here makes this the highest-return item on the list — restripe every one to two years as lines fade, and patch failures promptly rather than at the next budget cycle. None of these are large expenses individually, which is exactly why they get skipped, and why skipping them is so costly.
Pavement defects in customer-facing areas are a recognised source of trip-and-fall and vehicle damage claims. Faded ADA markings and non-compliant accessible routes carry their own exposure. Documented, routine maintenance is both cheaper pavement management and cleaner risk management.
A property is far better served by a sensible maintenance schedule than by an emergency replacement every fifteen years. If you own or manage property in the South Texas border region, having the lot walked and honestly assessed costs nothing and carries no obligation.
New commercial construction typically runs $2.50–$6/sq ft, resurfacing $1.75–$4/sq ft, and sealcoating $0.20–$0.50/sq ft. Larger lots cost less per square foot. These are typical Texas ranges for 2026 to budget against — your lot gets walked and itemised in a written bid at no cost.
Yes, and for most retail, medical, and restaurant properties we recommend it. Projects get phased, worked overnight, or split into sections so you never fully close. Tell us your hours and the schedule is built around them.
Sealcoating usually needs 24–48 hours before traffic. An overlay section can often reopen within 24 hours. Full reconstruction takes longer, but we phase it so only part of the lot is closed at a time. We give you a written schedule before we start.
Yes. Striping is done to current ADA standards including accessible stall dimensions, access aisles, van-accessible spaces, signage placement, and the accessible route to the entrance. A non-compliant existing layout gets flagged during the assessment.
Sealcoating every 2–3 years and restriping every 1–2 years as lines fade, depending on traffic volume. High-turnover retail lots wear faster than office parking. We can set you up on a schedule so it stops being something you have to remember.
Yes — recurring crack sealing, sealcoating, patching, and striping on a set cycle, typically at better pricing than one-off calls. For multi-site portfolios we can put every property on a coordinated schedule with consolidated reporting.
Often, yes — and it's roughly half the cost. An overlay works when the underlying base is still structurally sound. If large areas show alligator cracking or the surface flexes under load, an overlay will fail quickly and full-depth repair is the better spend. You'll get an honest assessment of which applies.
Regularly. We handle single properties and multi-site portfolios, with clear per-property bids, coordinated scheduling, and maintenance plans for each location.
Rutting in the drive lanes is the most common complaint on lots here that take loaded trucks — it means the build underneath isn't spreading the load, so levelling alone won't hold. Low spots that pond after a storm are the other one; rain arrives fast here and the ground takes it slowly. Depending on the cause we correct it by regrading during resurfacing, adding or clearing drainage, or rebuilding the affected section. We'll identify the cause rather than just resurface over it.
Yes. Private roads, community drives, and industrial access roads are regular work for us across the South Texas border region — typically with heavier build specifications than standard parking areas.
Tell us about your project and we'll get you a fast, honest quote — most within the same day.