Alley-Loaded Parking Pads on Historic St. Pete Lots

Plenty of bungalows and brick cottages in historic St. Petersburg park off the alley, not the avenue. The lane is narrow, the neighbors share it, and the first utility locate usually finds irrigation, a sewer lateral, and a service drop in the same eight feet. PaverForge Hardscapes builds those rear pads so a car can sit off the alley without turning the backyard into a mud lot.

Tight access is the whole job

You cannot stage a full driveway crew through a 10-foot alley and hope the neighbor's fence survives. We plan the cut, the haul-off, and the material drop before the first saw cut. If a mini excavator will not fit, we say so up front and price the hand work.

• Utility locates before any excavation

• A compacted base that can take a daily passenger car

• An edge that does not ravel into the alley after the first storm

• Pitch away from the house and the neighbor's slab

Design review on historic streets

If the front of the house is in a review district, the alley pad is usually quieter with the board — but the visible edge from a cross street still matters. We keep the field simple and match any existing walk color when the owner wants the lot to read as one property.

Price a rear pad

Call 727-490-9798 or book online at https://www.paverforge.com/book-online. Photos of the alley and the existing slab are enough to start.