Concrete Contractor in NE Palm Bay and Port Malabar, FL

Concrete in northeast Palm Bay and Port Malabar — the oldest units, the oldest slabs

The northeast quadrant is where General Development Corporation started in 1959: Port Malabar Boulevard, the canal lots toward Turkey Creek and the lagoon, the Emerson, Eldron and Garvey units. The driveways here are on their sixth decade, and the swales in front of them are what keep the streets dry.

Aerial view of the Port Malabar canal grid in Palm Bay, Florida, with block homes, driveways and the Indian River Lagoon beyond

Northeast Palm Bay is the original Port Malabar — the grid GDC platted from 1959 on, sold by mail and by the busload, and built out through the 1960s, '70s and '80s with slab-on-grade block ranches on quarter-acre lots. It's the part of the city with the canal frontage, the Turkey Creek shoreline, the flood zone along the lagoon, the biggest laurel oaks and slash pines, and the oldest concrete. The driveways were poured thin and unreinforced by the original builders; the aprons cross swales that have been mowed, filled and driven over for fifty years; the pool decks date from the '80s pool boom; and the front walks have been lifted by roots that were saplings when the house was new.

The work we do here is mostly replacement and rescue: cutting out the original driveway and pouring a reinforced one on a compacted base; lifting or replacing the apron and clearing or replacing the culvert under it; resurfacing decks that are sound and replacing the ones that have separated from the coping; and pouring the additions and lanai extensions that owners of these solid old block houses keep adding. The GO Roads program has already rebuilt the Country Club units and much of the Eldron and Garvey area, which is why so many NE aprons no longer meet the road — we fix that, with the Public Works permit.

What we do in NE Palm Bay & Port Malabar

Original-driveway replacement

The GDC-era pours cut out and hauled, base compacted, reinforced four-inch slab and a five- to six-inch apron poured to the current road grade.

Aprons after GO Roads

New aprons and culverts to the rebuilt road and swale profile on the Country Club, Eldron and Garvey streets — permitted through Public Works.

Canal and flood-zone footings

Additions and pads near Turkey Creek and the lagoon set to the flood elevation, with stem walls where the survey calls for them.

Streets, units and communities we cover

Port Malabar Boulevard
Palm Bay Point
Turkey Creek shore
Palm Bay Road corridor
Robert J. Conlan Boulevard
Emerson Drive (north units)
Eldron Boulevard units
Garvey Road units
Country Club Units 1–10
Port Malabar Units 1–30
Kirby Industrial Park
Babcock Street north
Palm Bay Hospital area
US-1 / Dixie Highway frontage
Turkey Creek Sanctuary side streets
Riverview Drive area
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Concrete services available in NE Palm Bay & Port Malabar

Questions from NE Palm Bay & Port Malabar homeowners

My 1970s driveway is cracked everywhere. Can it be lifted or resurfaced?

Usually not. The original NE driveways were often poured at two and a half or three inches with no reinforcement, and once they're cracked into a mosaic there's nothing sound to lift or overlay. We take them out, compact the base properly for the first time, and pour a reinforced slab that will outlast the house. It's the honest answer, and it's the cheaper one over ten years.

The road in front of my house was rebuilt and there's a lip at my apron. Whose job is that?

The road and the swale were the city's under the GO Roads program; the apron that has to meet the new grade is generally yours. It needs a Public Works Driveway and Lot Drainage permit because it's in the right-of-way. We pour aprons to the new grade every week in the Country Club and Eldron units.

Is my lot in a flood zone?

Along Turkey Creek and the Indian River, parts of NE Palm Bay are in a FEMA special flood hazard area. It matters for additions and any slab with a finished floor — the elevation has to meet the base flood elevation plus the city's freeboard — and we check the survey and the flood map before we design a foundation.

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