How far is New Richmond from you?

About 69 miles, an hour and fifteen minutes, out I-94 and then north on Highway 64. For commercial lots we come. Send the address and what the lot needs and we'll set up a time to walk it. The estimate is free.

Does pavement work go out as a formal bid for a school district?

Yes. You get a written scope with the quantities and a fixed number, in the form the district needs to put in front of a board. Quantities are what let a board compare one number against another, so the scope lists them area by area rather than as a lump.

There's a clinic in our building. What has to be right on the ADA stalls?

The stall and the access aisle beside it get laid out to the federal dimensions rather than eyeballed, and how many accessible stalls a lot needs comes off its total stall count. The route from that stall to the door is part of the layout rather than what's left over once the stalls are marked. All of it gets measured and chalked before any paint goes down.

Commercial Lot Maintenance in New Richmond, WI

Commercial Pavement Maintenance in New Richmond, Wisconsin

Parking lot sealcoating, crack filling, patching, catch basin repair, striping, concrete pads and aprons, and lot paving for commercial properties in New Richmond. About an hour and fifteen minutes northwest of Eau Claire on I-94 and Highway 64, and the estimate is free.

The Lots and Surfaces in New Richmond

New Richmond is a city of about 10,900 in St. Croix County, north of the interstate where Highway 64 running east and west meets Highway 65 running north and south through town as Knowles Avenue. It's 69 driving miles from Eau Claire, about an hour and fifteen, out I-94 and then north. Highway 64 is an expressway with at-grade intersections until 145th Street in the city and a two-lane surface road from there in, which is worth knowing if you're routing a truck. The Willow River runs through the city.

The industrial ground is one park, one big plant and an airport. The New Richmond Business and Technical Park runs about 107 acres off Highway 65 on the south side, inside a tax increment district, with water, sewer, electric, natural gas and telecom in, rail under two miles off and the airport three. Syntegon builds packaging machinery at 155 West 3rd Street, a plant that has been through two owners before this one and employs more than 270 people. New Richmond Regional Airport has 123 privately owned hangars, more than any other airport in Wisconsin, better than 275 based aircraft, a jet center and roughly 35,000 to 40,000 operations a year.

The retail and institutional lots are on the two highways. West Richmond Way carries a Walmart Supercenter with a walk-in clinic inside the building, and South Knowles Avenue carries Northwood Technical College's New Richmond campus. Westfields Hospital and Clinic is a full medical campus on Hospital Road with an emergency department, primary and specialty clinics, a pharmacy, inpatient care and maternity. The school district has three elementary schools, a middle school and a high school on East Richmond Way with about 1,100 students, and a 2024 referendum paid for additions, renovations and site work across three of those buildings.

Where the lots are in New Richmond

New Richmond Business and Technical Park
West Richmond Way
South Knowles Avenue
New Richmond Regional Airport

Around New Richmond: New Richmond Regional Airport, The Willow River through town, Mary Park on Mary Park Lake, Freedom Park, The New Richmond West Side Historic District.

10,879 people, 2024 Census estimate.

Wisconsin is split into five frost zones for WisDOT's frozen road declaration, which goes out once the ground has frozen at least 18 inches deep. That's the number that matters to a lot: how far down the frost gets, not how cold the air is.

What We Do in New Richmond

Each of these has a page written about New Richmond specifically.

Sealcoating

The lots here are the hospital campus on Hospital Road, the Walmart lot on West Richmond Way, the technical college on South Knowles Avenue, and the plant and park pavement on the south side. New Richmond sits in the Twin Cities' orbit, and a management company on the Minnesota side often works to a no-coal-tar spec, because Minnesota banned the sale and use of coal tar sealer statewide in 2014. Wisconsin has no statewide ban and neither the city nor St. Croix County has passed one, so over here it comes down to what the owner's spec says. We run an asphalt emulsion either way.

Sealcoating in New Richmond

Crack Filling and Sealing

WisDOT doesn't call Wisconsin's roads frozen until the ground is down 18 inches, and that's the same ground a lot sits on. A crack that's open in November is a funnel into the base all winter, and it comes out of the spring wider than it went in. Wide ones get routed to a clean face first so the rubber has a wall to bond to, and it goes in at 400 degrees, thin enough to reach the bottom. The big flat surfaces in town, the retail on West Richmond Way, the hospital campus and the park pavement, crack in long straight runs, and the footage adds up fast on a lot that size.

Crack Filling and Sealing in New Richmond

Asphalt Repair and Patching

The airport is the unusual one here: 123 privately owned hangars and better than 275 based aircraft is a lot of pavement on one site. The plant on West 3rd Street and the truck side of the West Richmond Way retail are the other places a lot takes real weight in one spot. Where a hole has opened up the base under it went first, so the fix is a square cut back to sound asphalt with the base dug out and rebuilt, and hot mix rolled in flush with what's around it.

Asphalt Repair and Patching in New Richmond

Catch Basin Repair

The lots with storm structures in them here are the flat ones: the hospital campus on Hospital Road, the retail on West Richmond Way, and the business park, which was built out with water, sewer, electric, gas and telecom already in the ground. What shows first is the asphalt failing in a ring around the grate, and by then the frame has been dropping for years and the collar under it has gone. A rebuild takes the structure back to sound, sets a new collar and keys the asphalt in at the right pitch. Patching the ring on its own puts the same repair back on next year's list.

Catch Basin Repair in New Richmond

Parking Lot Striping

Westfields Hospital and the technical college campus on South Knowles Avenue are the lots where the layout is the job: ADA stalls and access aisles at the federal dimensions, fire lanes, and a route from an accessible stall to the door that somebody can actually use. The Walmart lot on West Richmond Way has a walk-in clinic inside the building, which puts medical traffic in a retail lot. The high school on East Richmond Way and the three elementary schools are the other public lots in town. Everything gets measured and chalked before paint, and a restripe on a sealed lot waits for the sealer to cure.

Parking Lot Striping in New Richmond

Track and Athletic Surfaces

New Richmond High School is on East Richmond Way with about 1,100 students, and it runs varsity track and field and varsity tennis. The district has three elementary schools and a middle school besides, and its 2024 referendum covered additions, renovations and site improvements at Starr Elementary, Paperjack Elementary and the middle school. Track and court surfaces are summer work. Track work gets laid out to the measurements rather than by eye, because lanes and exchange zones have to come out where they're supposed to.

Track and Athletic Surfaces in New Richmond

Concrete

Dock aprons at the plant on West 3rd Street and in the business park, dumpster pads behind the West Richmond Way stores, curb and gutter around the hospital campus. A dumpster pad carries the front axle of a loaded refuse truck rather than the container, and that's what the slab gets sized for. Commercial pours go down at 4,500 PSI with tied rebar. Where a pad replaces asphalt that has been pushing and rutting, the asphalt around the new edge gets keyed back in.

Concrete in New Richmond

Asphalt Paving

The business and technical park is about 107 acres off Highway 65 with the utilities already in, rail under two miles away and the airport three, which is the kind of site where the lot goes in at the same time as the building. New pavement goes down on a graded, compacted, drained base, because once the surface is on, the base is the part nobody can look at again. On an existing lot the question is whether that base is still sound, and that's what settles overlay against tear-out. The district's referendum work included site improvements across three schools, which is the other place new asphalt has been going in.

Asphalt Paving in New Richmond