Sessions Paving Co.

Sessions Paving Company is an asphalt and concrete paving contractor serving Nashville and the wider Middle Tennessee region. Founded in 1931 and based less than six miles from downtown Nashville, the company works across commercial, roadway and recreational paving, and has been involved in the area's infrastructure for more than nine decades.

Parking lot construction and repair is a central part of the business, and the company handles the full set of components that go with it: asphalt patching, concrete work, striping-related fixtures such as bumper blocks and speed bumps, and bollard installation. Roadway paving and restoration is a second major line, covering the kind of complex surface work that public and commercial road projects involve.

Recreational surfaces make up a distinct specialty. The company builds and resurfaces tennis and sport courts, and it also paves walking trails — both of which call for different tolerances and finishing than a standard commercial lot. Its work on the Music City Grand Prix, the street circuit race run in downtown Nashville, sits in the same category of surfaces built to a specification beyond ordinary vehicle traffic.

Ownership has been in the same family since 1959, when Pat Hutcheson, a Tennessee native, bought the company. Robert Hutcheson joined in 1968 and became president in 1981, a role he continues to hold. Early projects documented by the company include airport paving at Murfreesboro, improvements at Old Hickory Lake, and the widening of Robertson Road for Metro Nashville and Davidson County — an indication of the public and municipal work the company has taken on historically.

The company belongs to the Nashville branch of the Associated General Contractors of America and to the Tennessee Road Builders Association. Internally, it maintains a drug-free workplace policy and places explicit emphasis on jobsite safety across all levels of staff, along with training programs aimed at bringing new workers into the paving trade.

Commercial property owners, municipal agencies and organizations responsible for recreational facilities in the Nashville and Middle Tennessee area make up the company's customer base. Estimate requests receive a response within 48 hours.