Commercial Site Prep in Louisville Metro: Pad-Ready Services for GCs & Developers
Commercial site prep in Louisville and surrounding KY — clearing, mass excavation, pad building, MSD stormwater, and pad-ready hand-off for GCs and developers.
If you're a GC or developer working on a small commercial pad, light industrial building, multi-family site, or a pad-ready land deal anywhere in Louisville Metro, the site-prep contractor either makes or breaks your schedule. Here's how we scope and run commercial site prep in Jefferson, Bullitt, Nelson, and Hardin counties.
Scope of a typical commercial site-prep package
- Pre-construction: survey verification, utility locate (811), tree-save plan, silt fence and construction-entrance install
- Clearing & grubbing: mechanical clearing, stump grinding below grade, brush haul-off or on-site grinding
- Mass excavation & cut/fill: balanced earthwork to engineered subgrade, density tested per spec
- Building pad: compacted to 95–98% Standard Proctor, within 0.1 ft of plan
- Parking lot subgrade: proof-rolled, undercut and re-compact where soft
- Storm rough-in: detention basin shaping, swales, riser stub-outs
- Utility trenches: sanitary, water, gas, electric, communications — coordinated with utility schedules
- Final grade & erosion control hand-off to paving and landscape crews
Louisville Metro-specific compliance
- MSD stormwater: any disturbance over 1 acre triggers an MSD permit. SWPPP must be on-site, signed, and updated weekly.
- Develop Louisville LDC compliance: tree canopy, setbacks, ROW improvements
- KYTC entrance permits: for any project tying into a state route (KY-22, KY-44, KY-61, US-31E, US-31W, etc.)
- Air Pollution Control (APCD): dust control plan required on most commercial sites
We pull, post, and close out all of the above in our own name when we're contracted as the sitework lead.
Schedule expectations
For a typical 2–5 acre commercial pad in Louisville Metro:
- Mobilization & E&S install: 1 week
- Clearing & grubbing: 1–2 weeks
- Mass earthwork & rough grading: 3–6 weeks
- Utility rough-in coordination: 2–4 weeks (concurrent)
- Pad finalization & hand-off to building: 1 week
Expect 8–14 weeks total from NTP to pad-ready on a clean 3-acre commercial site. Karst conditions, undocumented fill from previous use, or wet weather can extend the schedule.
What we hand the building contractor
A pad that's:
- Within 0.1 ft of plan elevation across the footprint
- Compacted to spec with density reports for the file
- Stub-outs surveyed and staked
- Drainage actively functional during construction
- Construction entrance maintained, silt fence inspected weekly
Bid us on your next commercial pad
We're a Louisville-based, owner-operated sitework crew with our own equipment and 15+ years on Kentucky commercial projects. Send us the civil set and a schedule and we'll return a hard-number bid with a Gantt-style schedule attached. Contact us — Eric and Jerry handle commercial bids personally.