Landscape and hardscape development
Landscape construction
Design, hardscape, planting and drainage built by one crew, then handed to our own maintenance division so it still reads designed two summers after the ribbon is cut.
One contractor for the ground and everything standing on it
A job here starts with a custom landscape design read against the site, not a catalogue plan dropped onto it. From there the same crew moves through hardscaping, pathways, driveways, patios, decks, screenwalls and retaining walls, and into softscaping, trees, shrubs, flowers, turf and sod, with water features and outdoor lighting built into the same sequence rather than bolted on afterward. Irrigation is designed alongside the planting, by our own irrigation division, so the system answers to what actually went into the ground instead of a generic zone plan.
Why the sequence holds together
Estimating sits in house with Aaron Jaska, who holds a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture from Texas A&M University, and who first joined this company as a college intern in 2008. A drawing set gets read by someone who has also stood on a jobsite reconciling what a plan shows against what the grade actually does, which is where design and construction most often disagree.
Southlake Town Square, Vitruvian Park and the UTA Special Events Center forecourt were all built this way, one contractor from design read-through to final planting.
Where this shows up
Three jobs, three different problems.
Southlake, TX
Southlake Town Square
Grand Avenue expansion. Streetscape, plaza, and the vine-grown timber colonnade over the bench run.
Arlington, TX
UTA Special Events Center
Dry creek bed and ribboned grass planting carrying drainage across the arena forecourt.
Addison, TX
Vitruvian Park
Public parkland at municipal scale, mown to the water on both banks.
Self-performed, not subcontracted
Concrete, masonry and drainage stay with us.
Concrete flatwork, masonry features, screenwalls, retaining walls, carpentry features and site drainage and utility work are all in house alongside the planting and the irrigation. Nothing on that list gets handed to a subcontractor and reintroduced to the job a week later on someone else's schedule.
“We have always offered to cover these scopes of work, but when you can self-perform them instead of hiring subs, it takes growth to another level.”
Joseph T. Angelone, Vice President · Landscape Management, 2025
The dry creek bed and rock beds at the UTA Special Events Center carry drainage across the arena forecourt as part of the same self-performed scope, so the grading, the planting and the utility work were solved together instead of handed back and forth between crews.
