Asphalt Paving and Repair in Lower Highland, Denver
LoHi is the pocket of Highland closest to downtown, across the Platte from LoDo. Paving work runs to shared driveways on new duplexes, small restaurant and retail lots on Platte Street, and alley aprons on the older blocks. Asphalt Denver quotes all of it in writing, free.
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Lower Highland is the eastern corner of the Highland neighborhood, closest to the river and to downtown. The pedestrian bridge over I-25, opened in 2006, drops walkers straight into LoDo, which is a large part of why this handful of blocks turned into restaurant ground.
The building mix is unusual for Denver: 1880s cottages next to scrape-off duplexes finished in the last ten years, with restaurants and small offices filling the older brick along Platte Street. Paving jobs are small and access is the constant problem, since streets are narrow, cars park both sides, and half the driveways are shared between two units.
Asphalt work in Lower Highland
Highland as a whole runs from West 38th Avenue down to Speer Boulevard, with I-25 and the rail corridor on the east and Federal Boulevard on the west. LoHi is the tight eastern piece of it. Platte Street sits below the bluff and holds the old industrial buildings, now offices and restaurants, and the ground drops noticeably from 32nd Avenue down toward the South Platte.
New construction dominates the residential paving. Scrape-off duplexes and townhome rows put two or three units on a lot that once held one house, and they share a drive off the alley to stacked garages. Those shared surfaces carry more traffic than a single-family driveway, are usually narrow, and often sit over trench lines from the utilities run in during construction. They crack early along those lines.
Commercial work is small scale: a dozen spaces behind a restaurant, a valet staging area, staff parking behind a converted warehouse. Staging matters more than the paving on blocks this dense. The alley surface itself is city right-of-way and the city looks after it, while the apron, the shared drive and the pad belong to the owner or the association. Cutting a new entrance across the right-of-way needs a city permit.
Common jobs around Lower Highland
- Shared duplex and townhome driveways off the alley, including the strip that cracks over a utility trench
- Alley aprons and garage pads on the older cottage lots
- Small restaurant and office lots on and around Platte Street, with layout and striping
- Crack sealing and sealcoating drives two to four years old, before the cracks open up
- Patching and pothole repair where delivery vans turn at the back of the Platte Street buildings
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Asphalt in Lower Highland: common questions
Who pays for a shared driveway on a LoHi duplex?
That comes down to your deed or party wall agreement rather than anything we decide. Most shared drives are split between the two owners or handled by a small association. We can quote the whole surface and break it out by unit so the split is easy to agree before work starts.
Why does my new driveway already have a crack down the middle?
On scrape-off lots the utility trenches are backfilled and paved over soon after. The trench settles and the asphalt splits along the line. Routing and sealing the crack keeps water out. Where the settlement is deep, that section needs cutting out and rebuilding rather than sealing.
Can you get equipment onto these streets?
Most of the time, with planning. The alleys are narrow, parking is tight on both sides and some streets are one way. We look at access before quoting, use smaller plant where a full-size paver will not fit, and arrange short-term street occupancy with the city when a truck has to sit on the road.
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