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Much of the work in mobile home parks involves paving, but parks also are great proponents of ongoing pavement maintenance programs including everything from sealcoating and restriping to fabric overlays to complete removal and reconstruction. Hamlin says that recently much of the work involves pulverization of the existing asphalt, then blending the pulverized asphalt with the existing base and paving on that.

"A lot of the mobile home parks built 20 or 30 years ago were constructed right on top of native soil and that's why they're starting to fail significantly," he says. "Pulverizing them and blending into a new base and paving on top of that can bring these pavements up to standard."

Crowley says that 300,000-sq.-ft. to 400,000-sq.-ft. mobile home parks are not uncommon, and the work on them is done in 75,000-sq.-ft. to 100,000-sq.-ft. increments.

"Often the work is completed in phases, depending on what's needed at the moment," Crowley says.

J.B. Bostick has been successful in mobile home parks simply because they take care of each of the individual residents. "The owner of a mobile home is very meticulous," Hamlin says. "We took that as a challenge and our business has grown accordingly."