Tenant Finish Out
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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Odessa ground is caliche, sand, or both on the same lease. On the Kimbrough soils under much of the city, hard caliche sits 4 to 20 inches down. West and south of town the Penwell fine sands drift into dunes. A pad or a lease road has to cut the one, hold up on the other and shed hard rain.
Bankston's Builders travels to Odessa from the Fort Worth area for this work. Odessa is part of our service area, the far west end of it, about 320 miles out I-20. We build pad sites and lease roads for oil and gas operators, plus commercial and industrial site work across Ector County. Call or text (214) 557-5106, and we put the quote in writing after we look at the job.
Tell us about the land or the building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
The Railroad Commission of Texas credits the Permian Basin with nearly 40 percent of United States oil production. Ector County sits in the middle of it: the first county well came in southwest of Odessa in 1926. Penn Field opened in 1929, Cowden Field in 1930, and Odessa grew into the basin's distribution and processing town. The Permian Basin Oil Show still sets up at the Ector County Coliseum.
A location out here is a caliche pad with a caliche road to it. We strip and level the pad, then place and compact caliche in lifts into a hard, dry floor. The caliche lease road gets a crown, ditches and culverts so water leaves the surface fast. Caliche is the pad and road material of West Texas because it packs hard and sheds water.
Texas law requires an 811 locate request before mechanized digging 16 inches or deeper, at least two working days ahead. On a lease that matters more than anywhere, because pipelines, gathering lines and flow lines cross the ground. Under Railroad Commission rules, a job too large for one ticket means a face-to-face meeting with the pipeline operator. In-field flow lines sit outside the one-call system, so the company that runs the lease has to point those out.
Odessa counted 114,428 people in the 2020 Census, up from 99,940 in 2010. The Census Bureau's 2025 estimate is 122,707. The city permitted 1,004 new single-family houses in 2024 and 921 in 2025. The shops and yards follow the rooftops.
Faudree Road is going to four lanes from Highway 191 to P-Bar Ranch Road, the way into Parks Bell Ranch. Parks Legado Town Center sits at that Highway 191 corner, on the corridor between Odessa and Midland. TxDOT is studying I-20 from FM 1936 to FM 1208 for new main lanes and interchanges, plus Loop 338. Its Odessa District office runs 12 Permian Basin counties and more than 8,000 lane miles of highway.
That is the work we come out for: building pads for commercial buildings and truck yards with cut and fill, compaction and a proof roll before the slab. Where the sand is too loose we bring in select fill. We trench for water lines and conduit while the equipment is on site. The yard gets a caliche surface that holds up under truck traffic.
NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals put yearly rainfall near 13 inches at Odessa's Schlemeyer Field. It comes hard when it comes: TxDOT's district profile budgets for dust storms and for flooding from extreme weather. Monahans Draw rises north of Penwell in central Ector County and runs 53 miles east to Midland Draw. It is a sandy draw that turns to marsh in wet spells.
FEMA's flood map for Ector County puts the land along the draws in flood zones A and AE. The City of Odessa requires a flood development permit for any construction, regrading or fill in the floodplain. Outside the city, the county's Development Structure Permit checks the finished floor against the crown of the road.
We build site drainage that moves water off a location: ditches, culverts under lease roads and detention on commercial sites. Along the draws, culverts and low-water crossings carry a lease road across the wet spots. The soil survey rates most ground under the city low for shrink and swell. The fights here are caliche, sand and runoff, a different job from the clay around Fort Worth.
Inside the city limits, the Building Inspections Division reviews plans, issues the permits and inspects the work. The Planning Division handles zoning, and the Subdivision Ordinance covers platting in the city and its extraterritorial jurisdiction. The Stormwater Division runs the city's MS4 permit. A site that disturbs an acre or more also falls under TCEQ's Construction General Permit; five acres makes it a large site.
West Odessa, the unincorporated area west of the city, covers about 62 square miles, more land than the city itself. Out there, Ector County Development Services issues the Development Structure, Drive Approach and Right-Of-Way Permits.
County Public Works maintains about 552 miles of paved road and 33 miles of caliche road. An entrance onto one of them goes through the county's drive approach rules. Where the city line runs decides which office a job falls under. The permit office answers that, and we point you there.
Communities and areas we serve around Odessa: University of Texas Permian Basin, Odessa College, Ector County Coliseum, Parks Bell Ranch, Parks Legado, West Odessa, Gardendale, Loop 338, Highway 191, US 385, SH 302, Business I-20.
Odessa ZIP codes served: 79761, 79762, 79763, 79764, 79765, 79766.
Odessa 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 Odessa. 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.