High Desert Development
Commercial Construction Contractor
Build-outs, wood framing and ground-up commercial work across the Antelope Valley and the High Desert, in Kern, Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.
What the work covers
A commercial job is mostly what happens before the building
The structure is rarely the part that slips. The pad is, and the utilities under it, the fire protection, the parking and the approach. Those are the pieces that hold a schedule up, and on most jobs they belong to three or four different companies with no shared reason to care about each other's dates.
Site and underground. Wet and dry utilities. Sewer connections, tie-ins and lift stations. Underground electrical, conduit, pull boxes and backfill. Fire mains in 6, 8, 10 and 12 inch for commercial and industrial projects. Fire hydrants and assemblies. Backflow prevention devices, installed and tested. Trenching, excavation, grading and compaction.
Concrete and the base under the paving. New foundations. Satellite pads. V gutters. Base for parking lots and roads. Concrete parking lots, sidewalks, driveways, curbs and ramps.
Structure and finish. Wood framing, roofing, electrical, plumbing, drywall and paint.
Why one company matters more here than on a house
On a residential build, a gap between two trades costs a week. On a commercial build it costs a tenant or a lease date. The usual reason a job slips is not that anybody did bad work. It is that the trench crew, the concrete crew and the framers each finished on their own schedule and nobody owned the seam between them.
Here those are the same crew. The people who set the fire main are the people who pour the slab over it and the people who frame on top of that. Nobody is working around a stranger's mistake, and nobody is waiting on a subcontractor to call back. The owner is on the site rather than managing it from a phone.
Ground up, tenant improvement, or the site on its own
Not every commercial job is a building. A good share of this work is site packages: the underground and the concrete beneath somebody else's structure, or the parking, approach and drainage on a property that already has its building.
If the building exists and the inside has to change, that is the same trades in a different order. If it is raw ground and a plan, it starts underground. Either way the first conversation is about the site, not the finishes.
The two pages worth reading next are underground utilities, which is the bulk of the commercial work, and concrete, where the commercial pours and pads sit.
Project gallery
Commercial construction projects in the High Desert
High Desert Development provides commercial construction and general contracting for businesses in California City and surrounding High Desert communities. Our experience includes ground-up building work, site coordination, structural construction, finishes, and the management of multiple trades from planning through completion.
This gallery shows completed commercial construction and the broad trade capabilities available for new buildings, expansions, and property improvements.
Printed sheets
The every-trade sheet
One company, every trade, from the first trench to the last coat of paint. This is the sheet that lists what gets handled in house rather than handed to a stranger.
Build for the business
Talk about the building you need
Ground up, tenant improvement or expansion, with one contractor on the site and the trades kept in house.