Black-Top Paving Co

Black-Top Paving Co is a Sioux Falls, South Dakota paving contractor that operates within Journey Group as one of its divisions. It handles asphalt projects from early budgeting and design through construction and later maintenance, and it also takes on concrete work such as curbs, driveways and sidewalks.

Its services are organized around parking lot repair and maintenance, private streets and roads, new construction and concrete. The division stresses that pavement life depends on what happens below the surface, so its work emphasizes correct grading, a sound subbase and a maintenance plan after the job is finished. Typical scopes include resurfacing, mill and overlay, crack sealing, sealcoating, pavement markings and restriping, as well as complete new parking lots.

The project list shows a broad customer base. For schools, Black-Top resurfaced lots at Tea Area Schools and upgraded the track and parking lot at Axtell Park Middle School for the Sioux Falls School District. Public work includes asphalt on the Interstate 229 ramps in Sioux Falls, an SDDOT job, Highway 124 improvements between I-29 and Highway 115 for Lincoln County, street paving in Harrisburg and a rehabilitation of the 6th Street Bridge that added new expansion joints and an overlay. Commercial customers have included Costco, First National Bank, Pathward Bank and Five Star Call Centers.

Individual jobs show the range of maintenance work. At the Air Madness lot, crews sealed the lot twice and painted markings across about 110,000 square feet. At 57th and Cliff, they milled two inches and overlaid the lot before restriping it. A church parking lot in Tea was reworked to correct drainage problems that left standing water, and for Bender Commercial the crew placed a bottom lift before winter, then returned in spring to finish curbs, sidewalks and the final asphalt layer, expanding the lot to 30 stalls. The division has also teamed with Knife River on a parking lot for POET and contributed to developments such as Boyce Park, the Turner County Courthouse in Parker and South Dakota State University's Metro Center.