Commercial
New Construction
Complete landscape installs for new apartment communities, retail pads, and office buildings, bid from your plans and sequenced to the general contractor's schedule.
Professional new construction landscaping for Columbus, Ohio properties.
Ground-up projects need a landscape contractor who can read a plan set, hold a schedule, and finish the site the week the building is ready for its first tenants. Our new construction work covers complete landscape installs for new apartment communities, retail and restaurant pads, office and industrial buildings, and new HOA common areas, built to the approved plans and turned over with warranty records and a maintenance plan.
- Bids built from landscape, civil, and stormwater plans
- Scheduled around the general contractor's milestones
- Code-required trees, islands, buffers, and screening
- Plant substitutions submitted for approval first
- Warranty walk and an optional maintenance handoff
28+ years caring for Central Ohio properties.
What a new construction landscape package covers
Every plan set is different. This is the scope most ground-up commercial and multi-family projects carry, priced line by line against your drawings.
Plan & spec review
We take off quantities from the landscape and civil plans, check them against site conditions, and flag conflicts before bid day, not during the install.
Stormwater plantings
Detention basins, bioretention, and rain gardens seeded and planted to the approved stormwater plan.
Topsoil & fine grading
Compacted subgrade loosened, topsoil spread, and finish grades set so water moves away from the building.
Sod & seed
Turf established on the schedule the site needs, from erosion-control seeding to finished sod at the front door.
Code-required plantings
Street trees, parking lot islands, buffer yards, and screening installed to the approved plan and ready for the municipal landscape inspection.
Entrances & site features
Monument beds, seat walls, walks, and amenity courtyards built alongside the planting.
Beds, mulch & edging
Foundation beds prepped, planted, edged, and mulched for a finished look on opening day.
Punch list & turnover
Final walk with the GC and owner, punch items closed out, and warranty records handed over.
Built to the approved plan, sequenced to the build
New construction landscape goes in against a plan someone else drew and a schedule someone else runs. We bid from the landscape architect's drawings and the civil set, confirm quantities and plant availability before we mobilize, and slot each phase into the general contractor's schedule. When the drawings and the site disagree, we raise it through the GC with a proposed fix before the plants are in the ground, not after.
The last trade on site, planned from the first meeting
Landscape usually goes in after paving, while the building punch list is underway, and right before the owner needs an occupancy certificate. That squeeze is predictable, so we plan for it: material ordered early, crews sized for a compressed window, and work broken into phases that follow the building instead of waiting for all of it. We attend OAC meetings, report against the schedule, and tell you early if a date is at risk.
Soil, grade, and stormwater before a single plant
Construction traffic leaves subgrade packed hard enough to drown a tree. We loosen it, spread topsoil to the depth the spec calls for, set finish grades so water moves away from the building, and build out the detention and bioretention areas the stormwater plan requires. Plants and sod go onto a base that drains, which is how a new landscape is still thriving at its one-year warranty walk.
Substitutions are submitted, never swapped quietly
Nursery stock runs short on big jobs. When a specified plant isn't available in the size or quantity the plan calls for, we submit an alternate with sizes and photos for the landscape architect's approval before anything is planted, and record it for your closeout documents.
Turnover to the team that keeps it growing
At turnover we walk the site with the GC and the owner, close out the punch list, and hand over warranty records. Owners who want continuity can roll straight into a commercial maintenance or HOA contract, so the crew that planted the property is the crew that mows, prunes, and fertilizes it through its first full season.
Book the landscape while the building is framing
Plant installs perform best in spring and fall, and nursery stock for large projects sells out early. Bringing us in while the building is still framing lets us reserve material, land the install inside a good planting window, and plan around it when the schedule slips into summer or winter.
Get on the schedule- Plant installs perform best March to June and September to October
- Grading, hardscape, and stormwater work can run outside those windows when the ground isn't frozen
- Buildings that finish in winter get a scheduled spring planting, documented for closeout
The new builds we landscape
Each project type brings its own inspections, phasing, and opening-day pressure. We plan the landscape around all three.
Multi-family communities
Foundation plantings, amenity courtyards, entrance monuments, and common turf for new apartment and condo buildings.
Retail & restaurant pads
Parking lot islands, frontage beds, and buffer yards, sequenced around paving and finished before opening day.
Office & industrial
Street trees, screening, campus turf, and stormwater plantings for new office, flex, and warehouse buildings.
Senior living & healthcare
Courtyards, garden walks, and entry plantings laid out around the residents, patients, and staff who use them every day.
New community common areas
Entrances, detention basins, and common areas for new HOA and subdivision phases, ready for the board at turnover.
Learn moreMaintenance after turnover
Roll the finished site into a commercial maintenance contract so the crew that planted it keeps it.
Learn moreThe new construction engagement, step by step
A predictable, transparent process refined over 25+ years of Central Ohio property work. No surprises, no scope creep.
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Plan review & bid
We take off your landscape and civil plans, walk the site, and return an itemized bid with alternates and clarifications.
- 2Step 2 of 4
Preconstruction
Submittals, plant sourcing, and a schedule tied to the GC's milestones, all confirmed before we mobilize.
- 3Step 3 of 4
Install
Grading, soil, hardscape, planting, and turf in the right order, run by one project lead from start to finish.
- 4Step 4 of 4
Turnover
Punch list, warranty walk and records, plus an optional maintenance contract from day one.
Bid from your plans, line by line
New construction is bid against the drawings. Your proposal breaks out each scope (grading and soil, hardscape, plant material, turf, and stormwater plantings) with unit pricing, alternates, and stated assumptions about access, schedule, and phasing.
- Itemized line-by-line proposal
- Quote turnaround in 24 to 48 hours
- No hidden fees, no surprise upcharges
We bid to general contractors, developers, and owners, and welcome multi-bid projects.
Priced per project from your plan set, with alternates for value engineering.
Every property is different. Quotes are tailored after a quick consultation. No obligation, no hard sell.
On commercial sites this season.
New Construction, answered.
Real questions from real Central Ohio customers. If yours isn't here, you have three fast ways to reach us.
01How is New Construction different from Landscape Construction?
New Construction is the landscape package for a ground-up building: we work from your plans, inside a general contractor's schedule, toward an occupancy date. Landscape Construction is our design-build service for properties that are already open, such as entrance renovations, common-area refreshes, and capital improvements.
02Do you bid from architect or landscape architect plans?
Yes. Send the landscape, civil, and stormwater sheets with the spec book and we'll return an itemized bid with unit pricing, alternates, and clarifications. If there's no landscape plan yet, our design-build team can help develop one.
03Will you work as a subcontractor to our general contractor?
Yes, that's the usual setup on new construction. We hit schedule milestones, attend OAC meetings, and stay in the GC's communication loop from mobilization to closeout.
04What happens if the building finishes outside the planting season?
We complete the grading, hardscape, and erosion control that conditions allow, then schedule the remaining planting for the next good window and document what's outstanding for your closeout.
05How do you handle plant substitutions?
Only with approval. If a specified plant isn't available in the size or quantity on the plan, we submit an alternate to the landscape architect or owner before anything goes in the ground.
06Do you warranty new installations?
Yes. Plant material typically carries a one-year warranty under proper care, and hardscape carries a structural warranty that depends on the system installed. Warranty records are handed over at turnover.
07Can you maintain the property after turnover?
Yes. Many owners roll a new site straight into a commercial maintenance or HOA contract, so the crew that installed the landscape is the crew that keeps it.
08What do you need from us to price a project?
The current plan set (landscape, civil, and stormwater sheets), the spec book, the bid due date, and the target schedule. A site walk helps once the building pad is in.
New Construction across Central Ohio.
Headquartered in Lewis Center, our crews reach most Central Ohio properties in under 25 minutes. Routes are organized by city: your crew is on your block week after week, not chasing across the metro.
As our home base, Lewis Center is where Meyers Landscape Services got its start.
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