Salisbury paving contractor
Yes, we work across Salisbury
Salisbury is the county seat of Wicomico County and the commercial heart of the whole peninsula. It was established in 1732, incorporated as a city in 1854, and it sits at the head of the Wicomico River, which is still one of the busiest commercial ports in Maryland. Salisbury University, the regional hospital and Perdue Farms all sit inside the city, which means a lot of pavement in a small area.
We come down MD 313 through Eldorado and Sharptown, pick up US 50 and run east into town. That road keeps us in Salisbury most weeks for everything from a single home driveway to a commercial lot that needs a fresh surface and fresh lines. Our family run paving company handles both.
What Salisbury pavement is up against
Start with the housing. Fires in 1860 and again in 1886 burned out the center of Salisbury, and the 1886 fire took about two hundred buildings across twenty two acres in seventeen hours. What went back up afterwards is the Victorian stock you see in the Newtown Historic District today. Those homes are well over a century old, and the driveways beside them have usually been patched by three or four owners.
Then there is the traffic. US 13 and US 50 both cross here and both were pushed onto the Salisbury Bypass to keep through traffic out of downtown, so the commercial corridors carry heavy trucks all day. A lot that was built for cars and now takes delivery trucks will show you exactly where it is failing, usually at the entrance and in the turning lanes. That is where our asphalt repair work starts.
What we handle here
What we build in Salisbury
Parking Lot Paving
Salisbury is commercial territory, and a lot here has to carry box trucks, trash trucks and constant turning, not just parked cars. We build the base for the real load, set the falls so storm water gets to the inlets, and lay a mat thick enough to last. Our parking lot paving in Salisbury covers shopping strips, offices, churches and apartment communities across the city.
Parking Lot Striping
Fresh asphalt is only half of a finished lot. Lines fade fast in Salisbury sun and under winter salt, and a faded lot costs you spaces and makes the fire lane and the accessible stalls hard to read. We lay out and paint stalls, arrows, handicap symbols and no parking zones. Our Salisbury parking lot striping can be done on its own, without repaving.
Driveway Paving
Around the older neighbourhoods, drives are narrow and long, often running the full depth of the lot to a garage at the back. Those are our favourite jobs to get right, because the drainage has to be thought through rather than guessed. Our driveway paving in Salisbury is residential and commercial, and we build the base to suit what actually parks on it.
Pot Hole Repair
A pothole in a Salisbury commercial lot is a trip hazard and a broken rim waiting to happen. We cut it back to sound material, square it up, prime the edges and compact the patch so it stays put instead of popping out in the next thaw. Our pot hole repair in Salisbury runs year round and is usually a same visit job.
Why Salisbury calls us
Why Salisbury owners call Robert and Son
Because we have been doing this on the Shore for three generations and we are still the same family running it. Third generation, out of Federalsburg, with Bob on the phone and on the job. Salisbury has no shortage of crews that show up for a season and disappear. We have been coming down US 50 for decades and we will be here next year when your warranty matters.
Maryland Home Improvement Commission licence 74385, BBB A plus accredited since 2018, two year warranty on everything we do, and estimates are free. We work homes and businesses both, which matters in a city where a lot of owners have a house on one side of town and a shop on the other. Ask us about sealcoating while we are out, because protecting good asphalt is cheaper than replacing it.
Where you will see us around Salisbury
We work the corridors first: US 13 and US 50 around the bypass, the business strips that feed off them, and the neighbourhoods in between, including the Victorian streets of Newtown and the rental blocks near Salisbury University. Downtown at the head of the Wicomico River the lots are older and tighter, and most of them need drainage sorted before anything else.
Outside the city limits it changes completely. Wicomico County is chicken country, part of a Delmarva industry that raised more than six hundred million birds in 2024 across more than twelve hundred family farms, and those farms run long lanes that take feed trucks and catching crews at all hours. A farm lane is a different animal from a suburban drive, and tar and chip paving is often the right answer out there.
Where we work
Driveways and lots we lay in Salisbury
We cover Salisbury and Wicomico County, and we are regularly working north of there at the Hurlock industrial park and west across the Nanticoke in Cambridge and Dorchester County.
Ask a paving contractor
Straight answers about asphalt paving on the Eastern Shore
Is Salisbury inside your service area?
Yes. It is about twenty four miles from our yard in Federalsburg, down MD 313 and east on US 50. Wicomico County is one of the counties we have served for years, and the estimate is free.
Can you stripe a Salisbury lot without repaving it?
Yes. If the surface is still sound we can lay out and paint the whole lot on its own, stalls, arrows, accessible spaces and fire lanes included. It is one of the cheapest ways to make a tired lot look cared for.
Do you work on commercial property in Salisbury?
Regularly. Shopping strips, offices, churches, apartment communities and industrial yards. Commercial work gets a heavier base and mat because of truck traffic, and we schedule around your open hours.
My Salisbury driveway is over a hundred years old. Can it be saved?
Often the surface is the problem and the base is fine, especially on the older Newtown streets. We dig and check before we recommend anything. If the base has gone, patching over it is throwing money away and we will say so.
Do you pave farm lanes around Wicomico County?
Yes, and we do a lot of them. Long lanes that take feed trucks and equipment need a different build than a house driveway. Tar and chip is often a better fit than hot asphalt on a long rural lane.
Who is actually doing the work?
Our own crew, out of Federalsburg. Robert and Son Paving has been at this for three generations. We are licensed in Maryland under MHIC number 74385 and every job carries a two year warranty.