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We finish out retail and commercial spaces as one job: roofing, HVAC, polished concrete, drywall, insulation, doors, cabinets and countertops. One company manages every trade from the bare shell to the finished space.
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Dig almost anywhere around Glen Rose and you hit limestone within the first two feet. Soil maps put Eckrant and Purves soils under about half the ground near town. That is 4 to 20 inches of clay and limestone cobbles over solid rock. Down in the Paluxy and Brazos bottoms the ground flips to deep loam that floods.
Bankston's Builders does heavy-equipment dirt work across Texas, and Glen Rose is part of our service area. We clear cedar and brush off ranch tracts and build the pads and roads that follow. Our land clearing and site preparation work runs on dozers, excavators, skid steers and compactors. Call or text (214) 557-5106, and we will look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Tell us about the land or the building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Somervell County is rough country, with limestone outcrops and elevations that run from 600 to 1,200 feet. The uplands around Glen Rose grow live oak, post oak, mesquite and mountain cedar. On the steeper Eckrant and Purves slopes, that cedar roots into a few inches of cobbly clay.
Clearing that ground is machine work. A dozer or an excavator pushes and grubs the cedar, roots and all. The rock underneath sets how deep the blade can go. The job ends with a tract ready for pasture, a pad or a road.
The sandy ground between the hills needs a different hand. Soil maps mark several Windthorst and Duffau sandy soils around Glen Rose as eroded, some of them severely. Strip them bare ahead of a rain and the gullies start, so we plan clearing and site drainage together.
Glen Rose is growing. The Census counted 2,659 people in the city in 2020 and estimated 3,033 by 2024, about 14 percent more. Somervell County grew close to 10 percent over the same four years, most of it outside the city limits.
About four in ten homes inside the city went up after 2000, and the county's median home dates to 1996. Nearly one in four homes in the county is a mobile or manufactured home. Each new house on acreage needs a level pad and a drive, graded so water runs away from it.
On Eckrant and Purves ground a pad is cut into rock, then built up in compacted lifts of select fill. Fill has to be hauled in, so the haul distance from the pit shows up in every pad quote here. Commercial pads along US 67 and SH 144 get the same work at a larger scale, road and drainage included.
The Paluxy runs through the center of the county and meets the Brazos east of Glen Rose. In summer the Paluxy normally stops flowing and sits in isolated pools. At flood stage on the Brazos near Glen Rose, the weather service lists ranch land and rural roads under water.
FEMA's new flood maps for Somervell County took effect in September 2023. The county floodplain administrator can say whether a bottomland site sits in a mapped flood zone. A road built there gets a crown and side ditches, with culverts sized for the water that crosses it.
Ranch roads on the limestone hills are a different job. The base is often the rock itself, shaped and topped with road base or gravel. Our ranch road building work covers ranch roads, long driveways, access roads and low-water crossings across Somervell County. We also build the stock tanks and ditches that go with a working ranch.
Somervell County covers 188 square miles, the second smallest county in Texas, and cattle and hay lead its farm side. The Comanche Peak nuclear plant north of town and the ranches around it carry the local economy. Dinosaur Valley State Park, 1,587 acres on the Paluxy northwest of town, and Fossil Rim Wildlife Center bring the visitors.
Water for that growth comes from Wheeler Branch Reservoir, finished by the Somervell County Water District in 2007. The lake holds 4,118 acre-feet on 180 surface acres and runs 80 feet deep at the dam. The district's project list runs to water line extensions and storage tanks. Every one of those lines starts as a trench.
Our commercial site work here covers pads and access roads for businesses along US 67 and SH 144. We also trench for the water lines and conduit that serve them, with backfill compacted in lifts. Texas law calls for an 811 locate request at least two working days before mechanized digging 16 inches or deeper. Fort Worth sits at the center of our service area, and Glen Rose is part of it.
Communities and areas we serve around Glen Rose: Downtown Glen Rose, US 67 corridor, SH 144 toward Granbury, FM 51 north of town, FM 205 west of town, Park Road 59 and Dinosaur Valley State Park, Paluxy River bottoms, Brazos River bottoms east of town, Rainbow, Nemo, Wheeler Branch Reservoir, Comanche Peak area north of town.
Glen Rose ZIP codes served: 76043.
Glen Rose is part of our service area. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
(214) 557-5106 We finish out retail and commercial spaces as one job: roofing, HVAC, polished concrete, drywall, insulation, doors, cabinets and countertops. One company manages every trade from the bare shell to the finished space.
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We build ground-up commercial buildings and additions for owners and developers. One company carries the job from the dirt work and the pad to the finished building.
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We clear trees and brush off ranch land and building sites with heavy equipment, roots and all. The ground is left ready for the pad or road that comes next.
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Building pads for commercial buildings, data centers, oilfield locations and custom homes. We cut and fill to the plan grades and compact each pad in lifts.
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Land grading levels lots and tracts and shapes the ground so water runs off. We do rough grading and finish grading with heavy equipment for developers, ranch owners and oil and gas operators.
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We build private, ranch, lease and haul roads on a compacted base with a gravel or caliche surface. Ditches and culverts move water off and under the road.
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As part of the site work, we dig trenches for water lines and electrical conduit, then backfill and compact them. A licensed plumber or a licensed electrician makes the hookups.
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We cut ditches and swales and set culverts that carry storm water off pads and roads. We also build stock tanks, ponds, dams and detention basins with heavy equipment.
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We build caliche pad sites and lease roads for oil and gas operators in West Texas and the Permian Basin. Grading and drainage around the location are part of the job, done by crews with real expertise on heavy equipment.
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Site work for data center campuses: clearing, mass grading, building pads, access roads, conduit trenches and drainage. We build the ground the data halls stand on, to the plans and the geotechnical report.
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We pour concrete slabs and pads on the sites we prepare ourselves. Inside commercial finish outs, we polish the concrete floor.
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We build poured concrete retaining walls that hold a cut or a fill on commercial sites, pads and ranch land. The excavation, footing, drainage and compacted backfill come with the wall.
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We rebuild commercial buildings and homes after a fire or a flood, once the building is dried out. The work runs to the insurance scope, from the tear-out through roofing, re-piping, drywall and finishes.
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We run Ethernet and structured cabling and install AV systems inside the commercial spaces we finish out. On data center projects, we put together the server racks and run the network cabling to them.
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High-end custom homes for select clients, from the pad to the finished house: stonework, custom iron doors, stone arches, fireplaces, custom kitchens, baths and closets. The dirt work and the build stay with one company.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Glen Rose. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us about the land, the pad, the road or the building and where it sits. Call or text (214) 557-5106, or send the form and we will get back to you with the next step.
Tell us about the land or the building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.