Commercial Construction: Student Housing, Auburn, AL

Student housing, below, Auburn, AL.  Red clay upon arrival, 3 weeks into construction with Heard's Landscaping, Inc., below.

Design constraints: rectangular site between major east-west USA railroad track, and a college street parrallel.  Maximizing student housing, parking. amenities  (pool, sunning terraces, golf, dog walk, volley ball, grilling, student safety.)

Shaefer Heard, Heard's Landscaping, Inc. has worked with the owner of this project for 3+ decades in several states, myriad sites.  Malls, doctor's buildings, fast food restaurants & etc.  Projects range from $50,000.00 - $500,000.00 + .

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Owner, for the above, puts together an experienced team for scouting sites, buying, designing, construction, maintaining. 

Heard's Landscaping, Inc. & Construction, licensed home builder, is a traveling minstrel for commercial gardens & construction.   

 Georgia red clay, above,  to swimming pool, volley ball, turf, irrigation, fencing, painting, lighting, stone, grilling & etc.  Heard's Landscaping, Inc. is local, and out-of-state for commercial projects.  In addition, between larger projects, Heard's Landscaping, Inc., creates residential gardens.

Plant materials are personally sourced, above, by Shaefer Heard.  All of the plantings, above, arrived via 18-wheeler truck.

Owner of this project knew a busy railroad track & parking detracted from selling his new student housing.  Large specimens were planted to diminish both.

Pool decking, above, is travertine set in sand.  Shaefer Heard Landscaping, Inc. has been installing pools for 2 + decades with this team.

Commercial projects are a team.  Heard's Landscaping, Inc., looks forward to working with this owner at each bid.

Of course this project was installed during July/August (2014), temps above 100f many days.

Deadlines loom.  Some work days ended at 1am.

The Auburn Tiger's, War Eagle, stadium is within walking distance of this project.

A multi-million dollar project for the owner, each student housing suite needed to be rented.  Aesthetics, and safety, sold the units.  All units rented ahead of opening.

Heard's Landscaping, Inc., after completion of this project, is totally miffed at the lack of control over students walking their dogs near every door entry/exit.
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An apartment complex in Atlanta, GA requires residents to supply their dog DNA to management, for dog poop fines.
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Maybe?

Commercial Project: Out-of-State in State College, PA

This job in State College, PA was completed last summer.  Off campus housing for the local college. 

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 Bare earth to a mini-community in 3 mos.

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20+ acres of sod, irrigation, and trees/shrubs/mulch.

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Heard's Landscaping was responsible for the entire landscape.

Shaefer Heard Landscaping has been doing out-of-state jobs for 20+ years.  In addition to local.
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Updates about this project in the future.  It's all about getting the time to be online.

Shaefer Heard Construction, licensed home builder, renovations - neighborhoods.  Heard's Landscaping, commercial/residential construction, hardscape-irrigation-lawns-grading-pools-ponds- lighting-stone-decks.  Three decades of service.
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Contact, Shaefer Heard.
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Blog created/written by Tara Dillard Garden Design.

Shaefer Heard Construction & Landscaping: Atlanta, GA Commercial Project 4-14

A commercial site in Atlanta, GA, this project was bid from a landscape architect's plans.

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The scope of the plan included flat land, steep hillsides, stone, gravel, grading, irrigation, mulch, turf, trees, shrubs, rolle bolle courts, water feature, band stand, grilling bar. 

At the front of the building, above/below, is the amenity zone with gravel areas for tables/chairs, paved zone for dancing, mingling.

Showing off what the business does, below, their taps feed the pond.

First day flowing!

Site still under construction, as is this blog, more soon.

Shaefer Heard Construction, licensed home builder, from renovations to neighborhoods.  Heard's Landscaping, commercial/residential construction, hardscape-irrigation-lawns-grading-pools-ponds- lighting-stone-decks.  Three decades of service.
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Contact, Shaefer Heard.
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Blog created/written by Tara Dillard Garden Design.
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Pics by Tara Dillard