Residential & Commercial Asphalt Paving in Lee's Summit
Driveways in Lakewood and Raintree Lake, retail lots at Summit Fair, truck courts off Ward Road — all built on ground that moves with the seasons.
Tarmasters paves residential driveways and commercial parking lots throughout Lee's Summit, Missouri. The city sits on Wymore-Snead series expansive clay, which heaves seasonally, so lots here need engineered subgrade prep rather than asphalt laid over whatever is present. Insured, bonded, Kansas City–owned, paving since 2014.
Lee's Summit is the fastest-growing commuter corridor on the Missouri side of the metro, and the paving work here splits cleanly in two. On the residential side it is roughly 106,419 people across neighborhoods like Lakewood, Raintree Lake, and the newer construction on the south side. On the commercial side it is Summit Fair / Summit Woods Crossing, the medical campuses, and a logistics corridor filling in along M-291 and Ward Road.
Those two need different builds. A driveway carries cars; a truck court off Ward Road carries Class 8 vehicles that pivot in the same spot every delivery. Same materials, same sequence, different specification — and the wrong one shows up as rutting within a couple of seasons.
We are based in Lee's Summit itself. Insured, bonded, and straight with you about whether a surface needs patching, resurfacing, or rebuilding from the base up.
Our Lee's Summit services
Everything we do in this market, and where each one goes deeper.
Building for Lee's Summit's conditions
Four things about this market change how we build. They are the reasons a lot here fails early when someone skips a step.
How does Jackson County's Wymore-Snead series expansive clay affect a Lee's Summit lot?
Jackson County clay swells when wet and shrinks when dry, so the ground under a lot moves seasonally and cracks pavement from below. On commercial work here that means engineered subgrade prep — lime stabilization, a geotextile separation fabric, or over-excavation — rather than simply laying more asphalt over whatever is there. Skipping it is what produces base failure within the first few years of a new lot.
What 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year do to pavement
With frost reaching around 36 inches, water that gets into the surface does not simply sit — it freezes, expands, and widens whatever it got into. Each cycle drives it deeper. That is why crack sealing before winter is worth more here than almost anything else you can spend the same money on.
Why do retail lots here rut in the same places?
Because of stationary loading. Queuing lanes at Summit Fair and Summit Woods Crossing hold vehicle weight in the same wheel paths for extended periods, and sustained weight compresses the binder rather than rolling across it. The result is ruts and depressions, which then hold water, which accelerates everything else.
Is newer construction automatically better?
No. Several post-2010 developments here are already showing curb and gutter failure, and the cause is usually subbase settlement on poorly compacted fill over Jackson County clay. That is a construction shortcut that surfaces five to ten years later — which is why we look at what is under a surface rather than at how new it is.
What your property type actually needs
The same clay sits under all of it. What changes is the load — and the load sets the build.
| Property | Load | Build | What we watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential driveway | Cars and light trucks | Compacted aggregate base over prepped subgrade | Unsupported edges and the apron tie-in at the street |
| Retail lot with queuing lanes | Sustained stationary weight in the same wheel paths | Thicker section, higher-density compaction | Rutting and depressions that then pond water |
| Medical / campus lot | Constant low-speed circulation, frequent marking wear | Standard commercial section | Accessible routes and fire lanes fading early |
| Industrial / truck court | Class 8 delivery vehicles, turning loads | Thicker base courses; concrete aprons at turning points | Shoving and rutting where trucks pivot |
A Lee's Summit company
Tarmasters is based here — 906 SE 7th Terrace, Ste B, Lee's Summit — and we are the asphalt division of Ford Concrete and Paving, a Kansas City company that has been working the metro for years. Paving since 2014, on both sides of the state line.
Being in town matters more on asphalt than it sounds. Mix has to arrive hot enough to compact, and haul time eats into that. Work in Lee's Summit is a short run for us rather than a cross-metro trip.
Insured and bonded. Fixed estimates, a firm timeline, and an honest read on whether the base under your surface can carry what you are hoping to put on top of it.
Lee's Summit neighborhoods we serve
Residential work across Lakewood, Raintree Lake, Winterset Valley, Longview Farm, and Bent Tree, plus Downtown Lee's Summit. Commercial work concentrates around Summit Fair / Summit Woods Crossing, Lakewood Commercial District, Lee's Summit Commerce Center, with access off US-50, M-291, I-435.
Neighboring cities
We also pave Blue Springs , Grandview , and Raymore — and 42 more communities on the full service-area list.
Questions from Lee's Summit property owners
What does an asphalt driveway cost in Lee's Summit?
Square footage first, then what has to come out and what is underneath it. A replacement over a base that still holds costs less than one where Jackson County clay has to be stabilized or over-excavated first. Grade correction, drainage work, and access all move the number. We measure the job and give you a fixed price before anything starts.
Can you phase a lot so we stay open?
Yes, and most commercial work here is phased. We take a section at a time and keep an entrance and a route through the lot usable. The section being paved is out of service for about a day. You get the phase map with the estimate so you know which rows are down on which days.
My lot was paved in the late 1990s. Overlay or replace?
That is the common question along the US-50 corridor right now, and the honest answer needs a look underneath. Those lots are in their second major maintenance window and their original subbase conditions vary a lot. If the base is sound, an overlay is a good deal. If it has broken down, an overlay cracks along the same lines within a few seasons. Core sampling settles it rather than guesswork.
Do you do residential and commercial both?
Both. A driveway in Lakewood and a truck court off Ward Road are the same sequence — grade, base, hot mix, compaction — specified for different loads. We are insured and bonded for either.
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