Large commercial parking field resurfaced and restriped in the South Bay.

Service area

Asphalt and concrete contractor in Santa Clara County

Large South Bay retail, office and campus properties, and two South Bay industry groups we belong to.

Santa Clara County has a lot of commercial property to look after: retail centers, business parks, corporate campuses and large apartment communities across Milpitas, San Jose, Santa Clara and the surrounding cities. We pave, repair and maintain pavement for all of them.

We're members of both BOMA Silicon Valley and CREW Silicon Valley, the two industry groups most closely tied to the South Bay commercial real estate market, which is where a lot of the region's property managers work.

On the ground

What pavement work in Santa Clara County actually involves

Local conditions, not a template with the place name swapped in.

Retail centers that can't close

South Bay retail is dominated by large parking lots serving many tenants with different hours, delivery windows and customers. Closing one isn't an option.

We work on those properties in sections instead of across the whole lot at once, grinding, paving and reopening each area before moving to the next. That's how we resurfaced a 112,800 SF shopping center lot at Rancho Cotati in eight days while the center stayed open for business. It's the same approach we'd take on a large Santa Clara County center.

A hotter, drier inland climate

The South Bay sits away from the marine influence that shortens the working day on the coast. Summers are hotter and drier, which lengthens the season for placing asphalt and seal coat.

The trade-off is surface heat. Large unshaded parking lots get hot enough to soften the binder, and that's when rutting and shoving show up where vehicles turn and brake slowly: entrances, drive-through lanes and loading areas.

Campus and business park properties

Corporate campuses and business parks are usually managed as multi-year programs rather than one-off projects, with pavement handled in phases across a portfolio.

That works well with how we like to scope: rebuild the areas that have truly failed, protect the rest with crack sealing and seal coat, and spread the spending across budget years.

Working with South Bay property managers

Our membership in BOMA Silicon Valley and CREW Silicon Valley helps us understand how South Bay managers and owners compare bids. That's why our proposals spell out quantities, depths and exclusions, with options priced so you can compare like for like.

We've also worked at the Milpitas Retail Center on North Milpitas Boulevard, where the owner thanked us "for a great job" and offered to serve as a reference anytime.

Recent work in San Jose

In 2024 we rebuilt the parking lot at Blossom Valley Bible Church on Purple Hills Drive in San Jose. We milled out 33,600 SF of failed pavement, regraded the base for drainage and repaved at 4 in, then seal coated, restriped and added wheel stops and accessible parking signs. The old asphalt turned out to contain paving fabric, so 48 truckloads of grindings needed special disposal. Our removal and replacement page covers how that work is done.

Questions

Working in Santa Clara County

Do you work in San Jose and the wider South Bay?

Yes. Our work there includes the Milpitas Retail Center.

Is Forticon a member of any South Bay industry associations?

Yes. We're members of BOMA Silicon Valley and CREW Silicon Valley, along with CACM, BOMA Oakland/East Bay, the California Apartment Association and ECHO. You can read more about our associations.

Can a large retail center be resurfaced without closing?

Yes, by working in sections. For example, we ground and repaved 112,800 SF at Rancho Cotati Shopping Center over eight days while the center stayed open.

Every project in Santa Clara County is run from Forticon's office at 1300 Clay Street, Suite 600, Oakland, CA 94612 · (510) 328-3230

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