Cojo provides asphalt paving services across Tigard, OR -- new paving, repair, pothole patching, driveway work, sealcoating, and parking lot striping. We're a licensed Oregon contractor based in Hood River, dispatching crews to Washington County for everything from a Bull Mountain driveway to a Tigard Triangle commercial pad. This overview lays out the services we offer in Tigard, the local conditions that drive scope decisions, and the budget ranges to plan against. For pricing context across Oregon, see our Oregon paving cost guide.
What We Do in Tigard
We split asphalt work into five service categories, and most Tigard projects need two or three of them in combination.
- New paving: driveways, parking lots, private roads, access lanes. Includes excavation, base prep, hot-mix placement, and finish rolling.
- Repair and patching: pothole repair, crack sealing, alligator-crack patching, edge-spall repair, and full-depth section replacement where the base has failed.
- Driveway work: new asphalt driveways, resurfacing, repair, and the apron-to-public-right-of-way coordination that Tigard and Washington County permitting requires.
- Sealcoating: maintenance sealcoat application on residential driveways and commercial lots to extend asphalt life and resist UV oxidation. See Tigard sealcoating for cadence and spec detail.
- Parking lot striping: layout design, restriping, ADA-compliant accessible stalls and ramps, and pavement marking. See Tigard parking lot striping for layout standards.
A typical commercial paving project bundles new paving or repair with sealcoating and striping on the same mobilization. Bundling amortizes the mobilization cost across multiple services and reduces the disruption window for tenants.
Tigard Conditions That Drive Scope
Tigard sits in the southwest Portland metro on the Tualatin River drainage. Annual rainfall runs 40 to 45 inches, summers are warm and mostly dry, and the valley sees 15 to 25 freeze-thaw cycles in a typical winter. Soils across Washington County are dominated by Cascade and Aloha silty clay loam, which holds water through the wet season and gives back strength slowly in spring.
A few site conditions worth flagging for Tigard property owners:
- Bull Mountain hillside drainage: lots on the south flank can have differential drainage that needs catch-basin work as part of any paving scope.
- Tigard Triangle commercial soils: filled sites have variable compaction; core-testing matters where the base looks suspect.
- Washington County stormwater rules: projects near Fanno Creek or in mapped flood plains can trigger detention or treatment work.
- ADA non-compliance on pre-2010 lots: curb-ramp and accessible-stall updates are typically required during any restripe.
A real contractor brings these conditions up during the site walk. If your bidder doesn't reference them, ask why.
Industry Baseline Range
| Project Type | Cost Per Sq Ft | Typical Total Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Residential driveway (2-car) | $2.00 to $10.00 | $2,000 to $15,000+ |
| Driveway resurfacing (overlay) | $1.50 to $5.00 | $1,500 to $8,000+ |
| Small commercial lot | $2.00 to $10.00 | $8,000 to $60,000+ |
| Mill-and-overlay (commercial) | $3.00 to $7.00 | $30,000 to $150,000+ |
| Full replacement (commercial) | $4.00 to $10.00 | $40,000 to $200,000+ |
Current Market Reality
The baseline assumes a flat lot, sound base, easy access, and no drainage or ADA upgrades. Most Tigard lots built before 2010 have at least one of these complicating conditions. Bull Mountain hillside driveways often need drainage work; Tigard Triangle commercial pads often need base correction at truck zones; pre-2010 commercial lots typically need ADA updates. Real bids reflect these conditions as line items rather than absorbing them into a blanket per-square-foot rate. For broader Oregon pricing context, see our Oregon paving cost guide.
Scheduling Around Tigard Operations
Asphalt placement requires ambient temperatures above 50 degrees F and dry conditions. In Tigard, that puts the working window at roughly May through mid-October. Sealcoating wants 60 degrees F overnight, which compresses the placement window to mid-May through mid-September. Striping follows paving on the same mobilization to amortize travel costs.
For commercial work, we sequence around tenant operations: overnight pours where Tigard permitting allows, weekend phasing for larger lots, and lane-by-lane closures for drive aisles. We hand the property manager a phase map, cure-time schedule, and back-in-service date per zone before mobilizing. For residential driveways, we provide a single cure schedule and a recommended date for moving vehicles back on the surface.
Why Property Owners Choose Cojo
Cojo has been a licensed Oregon contractor since 2009 (CCB licensed and insured). We run our own crews and equipment rather than subbing out, which matters on a multi-day project where the property owner needs one accountable party for schedule, change orders, and warranty. Our Hood River HQ dispatches to Tigard in about 90 minutes via I-84 and I-5, and we treat mobilization as an honest line item rather than padding the unit rate.
Adjacent service references for Tigard property owners:
- New driveway or apron work: pairs with our excavation services.
- Maintenance after paving: see our asphalt maintenance program.
- Service-area context: see our locations for the full Cojo coverage map.
Permits, Inspections, and Documentation
Tigard and Washington County permitting varies by scope. New driveways with apron work in the public right-of-way typically need a city apron permit. Commercial work that materially changes impervious area or drainage triggers a stormwater review and may need a sediment-and-erosion control plan, especially for sites near Fanno Creek or the Tualatin River frontage. Tigard Triangle redevelopment areas have additional design-review constraints that affect lot finish. We handle permit pull and inspection coordination as part of the project scope.
For commercial property managers, we provide a closeout package at project end: as-built drawings if drainage was modified, photographic records of base prep and sub-base before placement, structural-section specs, sealcoat and striping spec sheets, and a one-page warranty summary. The package supports refinance, sale, and insurance-renewal needs. A contractor who can't provide documented closeout is asking the property owner to take the work on faith. Our standard package goes to the property manager by email within five business days of substantial completion.
Getting a Bid for a Tigard Project
For a 2026 driveway, commercial lot, or maintenance project, contact us. We'll walk the site, core-test where the base looks suspect, scope each zone, and hand you a phased bid with mobilization, sequencing, and warranty terms in writing. For residential work, we typically have a written estimate back within 48 to 72 hours of the site walk. For commercial work with base-condition uncertainty or stormwater coordination, the estimate timeline can run a week to ten days depending on what cores reveal.
Tigard Triangle, Bull Mountain, downtown Main Street, Pacific Highway corridor, and the SW Bonita Road industrial area are all inside our regular dispatch radius. Whatever the project, the bid arrives lined out by treatment, with the questions a property owner should be asking already answered.