Meet Kevin Ache

22 completed projects at 14 shopping centers across 8 states, anchored by a repave in Laredo, TX, where Diamond milled and overlaid roughly 204,000 square feet (about 4.7 acres) across two adjoining parcels.

Kimco Realty owns the shopping centers people actually use, the open-air plazas anchored by grocery, home goods, and everyday retail that a whole neighborhood drives through every week. Kimco is the largest owner of open-air, grocery-anchored shopping centers in the country, and every one of those centers runs on its parking lot. When the pavement fails, the tenants feel it and the shoppers notice.

Diamond Solutions maintains those lots for Kimco across the country. Completed work spans 14 shopping centers in eight states, from full-lot reconstructions to targeted repairs and restriping. In Texas, Diamond repaved an entire center. In Ohio, Tennessee, Georgia, Michigan, South Carolina, Washington, and Florida, crews handled everything from major mill-and-overlay work to the smaller repairs that keep a center safe and sharp between the big projects.

The value is the same at every property: one partner who can scope the work honestly, size it to what the lot actually needs, and get it done without emptying the parking lot a retailer depends on. That's what turns a single job into a national program.

ANCHOR PROJECT — Independence Plaza, Laredo, TX

‍Independence Plaza is two adjoining parcels of one busy Laredo shopping center, and Kimco needed both repaved. Diamond ran them in tandem as a single coordinated effort rather than two disconnected jobs. Across the two parcels, crews milled and overlaid roughly 204,000 square feet of asphalt with a new 2-inch wearing course, added a leveling pass across the larger parcel to reach full depth, and restriped the entire center: parking stalls, cross-hatches, stop bars, speed bumps, bollards, light-pole bases, and roughly 4,400 linear feet of curb painting. The new layout included ADA, EV-charging, fire-lane, and directional stencils. The work was staged so the center's tenants stayed open and shoppers kept coming while the lot was rebuilt around them.

KIMCO PORTFOLIO

• Independence Plaza (I & II) — Laredo, TX
• Starr Plaza — Rio Grande City, TX
• The Commons at Dexter Lake — Cordova, TN
• Mendenhall Commons — Memphis, TN
• Parkway Super Center — Lake Stevens, WA
• Westwood Plaza — Charleston, SC
• Publix at Princeton Lakes — Atlanta, GA
• Promenade at Pleasant Hills — Duluth, GA
• Peachtree Hill — Duluth, GA
• The Shops at Old Orchard — West Bloomfield, MI
• Winchester — Rochester Hills, MI
• West Oaks — Novi, MI
• Spring Meadows — Holland, OH
• Dania Pointe — Dania Beach, FL

EQT Exeter runs one of the largest industrial and logistics real estate platforms in the world, the distribution centers, warehouses, and manufacturing facilities that move product across the country. Every one of those buildings sits on a truck court and a parking lot that take relentless punishment from loaded trailers, yard equipment, and shift traffic. When that pavement fails, tenants feel it and operations slow down.

To date, Diamond has completed 58 projects for EQT Exeter across four states, from full facility repaves to targeted repairs, crack sealing, drainage fixes, and restriping. The relationship has grown building by building, state by state, because the work holds up and the crews keep the facilities running while it happens.

The value is consistent at every property: one partner who scopes the work honestly, sizes it to what the pavement actually needs, and gets it done without shutting down a truck court a tenant depends on. That is what turns one job into a national program.

PORTFOLIO AT A GLANCE

• North Carolina: the core of the partnership. More than 20 completed projects, headlined by a full-depth reconstruction in Claremont, the mill-and-pave anchor at in Mebane, and significant projects in Butner, Morrisville, and Garner (Pergo), plus repairs and striping across Charlotte, Statesville, Winston-Salem, Kings Mountain, Concord, Lincolnton, and High Point.
• South Carolina: more than 15 completed projects, anchored by a major reconstruction in Duncan, with work across Spartanburg, Fort Mill, Greenville, and Rock Hill.
• Georgia: more than 10 completed projects, headlined by the four-building business park in Norcross, plus Atlanta and Savannah.
• California: a growing West Coast presence at Temecula and Hesperia.

ANCHOR PROJECT: Mebane, NC‍

The newest project in the program, and a clean example of how Diamond handles a full distribution facility. At 1099 Corporate Park Drive, Diamond mill-and-paved the entire site: 51,329 square feet of 4-inch mill and pave across the truck court, where the loaded trailers run, and 39,690 square feet of 3-inch mill and pave across the employee lot, roughly 91,000 square feet of new asphalt in total, then restriped both areas. The truck court carries constant heavy trailer traffic, so it got the thicker, full-depth section over two lifts; the employee lot got a right-sized 3-inch section. The work ran from late July to late August 2026 and finished with a full restripe, and it was captured with an aerial drone video.

FedEx keeps freight terminals, ground distribution centers, and logistics facilities running around the clock. Pavement at those sites takes a constant beating from tractor-trailers, yard trucks, and heavy dock traffic. Across four states, FedEx needed a paving partner who could handle everything from routine crack sealing to full concrete slab replacement without slowing down the flow of freight.

Diamond Solutions delivered on that need across 10 FedEx facilities in Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina, completing 14 separate projects. Combined, the documented work totaled more than 460,000 square feet of paving and sealcoating, plus over 129,700 linear feet of crack and joint sealing, with additional asphalt installation and concrete work delivered across the program. No two sites were alike. Some needed a full mill and overlay after years of deferred maintenance. Others needed targeted concrete slab replacement in truck yards, sidewalk repairs, sealcoating, striping, and new asphalt.

Rather than apply one solution everywhere, Diamond matched the right scope to each facility: right-sizing the work to the actual condition of each lot instead of over-scoping it. From high-traffic freight terminals in Michigan to a full-service refresh in South Carolina, Diamond helped FedEx protect its pavement investment, address safety concerns, and keep its properties working.

Kohl's runs two very different kinds of property, and both live or die on their pavement. There's the retail store, where the parking lot is the first thing a customer touches. And there's the distribution center, a 24/7 logistics operation where trailers cross the yard around the clock. Diamond Solutions maintains both for Kohl's, across four states.

The work ranges as widely as the properties do. At the Macon, Georgia distribution center, Diamond delivered a full clean, repair, crack-seal, and restripe across acres of truck court, entrances, and front parking. At the store level, the jobs are smaller and more surgical: asphalt patching in Mt. Pleasant, curb repair in Midland, a rebuilt catch basin in Gaylord, an ADA ramp in Traverse City, fresh striping in Simpsonville. Same client, same standard, wildly different job sizes.

That's the value Kohl's gets from a single pavement partner. One call handles a six-figure distribution-center overhaul and a one-day storefront striping visit, and both get done right, on a schedule that keeps stores open and freight moving.

Kohl's Portfolio

1. Macon Distribution Center, GA: 1.45M sq ft sealcoat, 25,250 LF crack seal, full restripe + ~950 stalls re-numbered
2. Troy (#467), MI: parking-lot repairs
3. West Bloomfield, MI: parking-lot repairs
4. Gaylord, MI: asphalt repair + catch-basin rebuild
5. Midland, MI: concrete curb repair + asphalt patching
6. Mt. Pleasant, MI: asphalt repairs
7. Traverse City, MI: concrete ADA ramp
8. Raleigh, NC: base + asphalt install
9. Simpsonville, SC: striping

Highlight: Macon, GA Distribution Center

A Kohl's distribution center doesn't slow down. Trucks stage, load, and roll around the clock, and every trailer that crosses the yard puts weight on the pavement. Over three months in early 2024, Diamond took on a full refresh of the Macon facility, the rear trailer yard, the entrance ways that carry every truck in and out, and the front parking that employees and visitors use every day.

Crews sealcoated 1,449,283 square feet in two coats, nearly 1.45 million square feet, roughly 33 acres of pavement, crack-sealed more than 25,000 linear feet, restriped the entire lot, and re-stenciled about 950 parking stalls with fresh numbers, letters, and ADA markings. The work was staged zone by zone around the dock schedule so freight kept moving the entire time. Kohl's brought Diamond back that fall for additional crack sealing in the grass-growth areas, the kind of repeat call that only comes when the first job is done right.

EXFLEX Property Services manages commercial retail centers, the kind of multi-tenant plazas anchored by names like Goodwill, Dunkin', Dollar Tree, and neighborhood banks. Those properties sit in different states, they run on different schedules, and the pavement work they need ranges from a full parking-lot refresh to restriping five spaces in front of a single building.

EXFLEX manages that portfolio across state lines, and it counts on one pavement partner to keep it in shape. Diamond Solutions has taken on three projects for EXFLEX across Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina. Each site got the scope it actually needed, planned around the tenants who keep the center busy, and delivered to the same standard whether the job was a six-figure resurfacing or a quick striping visit.

The anchor of the program is the Gainesville, Florida shopping center at 1302 N Main St. A full-site evaluation turned into a coordinated refresh of the customer lot, completed in under a month while the stores stayed open. It set the tone for how Diamond works across the rest of EXFLEX's properties: assess honestly, scope for the real problem, and keep the doors open.

Steak 'n Shake pioneered the idea of premium burgers and shakes in a fast-food setting all the way back in 1934. Their founder emphasized the quality of the "Steakburger" by preparing food in front of customers, with the words "It Must Be Right" used as the slogan.

Diamond Solutions brings that same standard to every parking lot. Across 10 states, we've completed 65 pavement and concrete projects for Steak 'n Shake restaurants — from a single mill and overlay in Battle Creek, Michigan to full-depth asphalt replacement, sealcoating, concrete repair, and striping at locations throughout the Midwest, South, and beyond. Each one is a busy restaurant with a drive-thru that can't simply shut down for construction.

That's the heart of the program: the work has to be right, and it has to happen on a schedule that doesn't disrupt business. Our customers need to focus on serving their customers. Diamond takes care of the parking lot details — planned around each restaurant's hours, sized to what each lot actually needs, and delivered to a consistent standard location after location.

Across 10 states, Diamond has completed 65 Steak 'n Shake projects.

The scale isn't the whole story; the consistency is. Whether it's one restaurant or fifteen in a state, each site gets the same planning, the same right-sized scope, and the same commitment to keeping the doors open while crews work.