Region
Where we build
Lakewood and the Denver metro. On this site the service area is not a marketing boundary — it is a statement about where the subcontractor market will actually bid your project, which is a different and more useful thing.
9195 W 6th Ave, Lakewood, CO 80215
01Distance
Most contractors list a service area as a list of towns. It is worth saying what a service area actually does to a project, because it is not about the drive.
A general contractor can work anywhere it can supervise. Subcontractors cannot. A drywall crew will travel; a specialty trade with one crew and a full backlog will not, and the further a project sits from the firms that would bid it, the fewer of them do.
Which means distance shows up in your number as thinner coverage, not as a mileage charge. A project forty minutes outside the metro, let in a busy month, can lose a bidder on half its trades — and losing a bidder is worth far more than any travel line.
So the honest answer is this: inside the metro, the coverage counts on the coverage page hold. Beyond it they start to erode, trade by trade, and the thin trades go first because they were already thin.
Where a project sits far enough out that we would be fighting the market on your behalf rather than working it, a local general contractor with local subcontractor relationships will buy it better than we will. We will say so, and that is a real answer rather than a polite one.
Not “do you work out here?” — everybody says yes. Ask “which of my trades loses a bidder at this address?” A firm that has bought work in your area will answer specifically. A firm that has not will answer generally.
Communities served
- Lakewood
- Denver
- Golden
- Wheat Ridge
- Arvada
- Edgewater
- Littleton
- Englewood
- Westminster
- Broomfield
- Aurora
- Centennial
- Jefferson County
- Adams County
- Douglas County
Not an exhaustive list and not a boundary. Commercial and institutional work across the Denver metro and the near Front Range.
Pinkard Construction Co.
9195 W 6th AveLakewood, CO 80215- Telephone
- (303) 986-4555
- [email protected]
- Hours
- Mon–Fri 7:30 AM–4:30 PM MT
- Trade
- Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
- Licence
- Licence and registration details on request
02Conditions
Four local conditions that move a bid
Each one changes either what the building needs or who is available to build it, and each one is predictable enough to plan around.
| Condition | What it does to the building | What it does to coverage |
|---|---|---|
| The earthwork season | Shorter than the calendar suggests. Missing it costs a winter, not a month | Every project wants the same trades in the same months. A February bid draws more firms than the same bid in June |
| Hail | Roof membrane, glazing and rooftop equipment selections that are ordinary elsewhere become an insurance problem here | After a serious season, roofing and glazing are absorbed by insurance work and a trade that drew three bids draws one |
| Expansive soils | Changes the foundation system entirely in parts of the metro. Measured in hundreds of thousands | Without a geotechnical report every earthwork bid prices the risk differently, which makes them impossible to compare |
| Wind and altitude | Design wind loads surprise out-of-state designers; altitude affects equipment sizing and derating | Little, but it narrows which suppliers have been here before — which matters more than it sounds |
The third column is the one that is specific to this site. Everybody knows it hails here. Fewer owners know that a hail season is also a procurement event, and that letting a roof package in October of a bad year is a decision with a price attached.
03Approvals
What a commercial project passes through here
Published because owners consistently underestimate how many separate reviews a commercial building goes through, and every one of them is a date on the schedule.
| Review | What it covers | When it bites |
|---|---|---|
| Planning and zoning | Use, site plan, setbacks, parking, landscape | Before anything else. An unentitled site is a much longer project |
| Building plan review | Structural, accessibility, energy, and the trades | The main queue. A complete set gets one round; a poor one gets three |
| Fire | Access, hydrants, suppression, alarm, occupancy | Frequently the review that changes a site plan late |
| Public works and traffic | Access, right of way, drainage, traffic impact | Where a study is required it is a long lead, often months |
| Utilities | Water, sewer, gas and the electrical service | The service application is the longest lead item on many projects |
| Special inspection | Independent inspection of structural work during construction | Throughout. Normally retained by the owner, which is correct |
Jurisdictions differ across the metro — Lakewood, Denver, Jefferson County, Arvada and the rest each run their own process — and fees and procedures change. This is a builder’s practical account rather than the authority’s own information; confirm anything consequential directly with the jurisdiction.
Tell us the address
The address decides the jurisdiction, the likely soils, what utilities are at the property line, and — the part most contractors will not discuss — which of your trades loses a bidder at that location. Give us that and a sentence about the building.
Pinkard Construction Co. · 9195 W 6th Ave, Lakewood, CO 80215