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Commercial paving appointment setting in Colorado Springs: who to call, and when

A prospecting guide for commercial paving contractors in the Colorado Springs, CO metro: which buildings to target, where they are, when to call, and how Abstrakt books the meetings.

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The short answer

How paving companies win commercial customers in Colorado Springs

The Colorado Springs metro has 992 larger buildings in paving-buying categories, led by retail stores (337), and 28 highway, street and paving contractors working them. It over-indexes on ambulatory health care offices and clinics, which should anchor a target list. Call all year and push hardest for meetings in Mar–May, ahead of the work season. Start in El Paso County, where 99% of them sit.

10 things to know before prospecting paving in Colorado Springs

  1. 0128 highway, street and paving contractors work the Colorado Springs metro (-1 in a year), about the national concentration.
  2. 0235.4 larger paving-buying buildings per contractor ranks Colorado Springs #72 of 95 markets and #2 of 2 in Colorado.
  3. 03The biggest buyer group is retail stores: 337 sites with 20+ people.
  4. 04Colorado Springs over-indexes on ambulatory health care offices and clinics at 1.36x the national mix, so build references inside that group.
  5. 05Ambulatory health care offices and clinics added 150 establishments in a year: new sites without a paving contractor relationship.
  6. 06Tier 1 is 238 sites with 50+ people among retail stores and ambulatory health care offices and clinics; those deserve two or three contacts each.
  7. 07El Paso County holds 99% of the larger buildings across 2 counties.
  8. 08Call all 12 months, and push hardest for bid meetings in Mar–May, before the work season (Jun–Sep).
  9. 09Map the anchor owners first: Colorado Springs Airport (COS), Peak Innovation Park and Fort Carson run the kind of facilities that use paving work.
  10. 102 named projects in the metro create paving work, starting with Swire Coca-Cola manufacturing facility.
Who your SDR calls

The 9 industries a Colorado Springs paving program prospects into

These are the 9 industries Abstrakt's SDRs call for paving work, with how many of each are in the Colorado Springs metro and who to ask for. Compared with the U.S. as a whole, Colorado Springs leans toward ambulatory health care offices and clinics (1.36x), churches and religious organizations (1.27x) and apartment property management firms (1.26x). Build the list around those categories. Truck transportation companies and auto dealerships are thinner than the national mix, so treat them as selective targets.

  1. 01
    Retail stores337
    Ask for: Store or regional facilities manager 141 with 50+ on site 0.84x U.S. mix -69 in a year
  2. 02
    Ambulatory health care offices and clinics232
    Ask for: Practice administrator 78 with 50+ on site 1.36x U.S. mix +150 in a year
  3. 03
    Apartment property management firms172
    Ask for: Regional property manager 1.26x U.S. mix -5 in a year
  4. 04
    Churches and religious organizations58
    Ask for: Facilities committee chair 19 with 50+ on site 1.27x U.S. mix +10 in a year
  5. 05
    Commercial building owners and lessors50
    Ask for: Owner 0.85x U.S. mix -1 in a year
  6. 06
    Hotels44
    Ask for: Director of engineering 9 with 50+ on site 1.06x U.S. mix -4 in a year
  7. 07
    Commercial property management firms40
    Ask for: Property manager 0.94x U.S. mix +2 in a year
  8. 08
    Auto dealerships39
    Ask for: Dealer principal 28 with 50+ on site 0.71x U.S. mix -2 in a year
  9. 09
    Truck transportation companies20
    Ask for: Terminal manager 4 with 50+ on site 0.57x U.S. mix -14 in a year

Locations are establishments with 20 or more employees (U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023); property management and similar companies are counted in full, whatever their size. Change and concentration: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2025 Q2.

Competition

Who else is calling Colorado Springs property and facility teams

28commercial paving contractors
35.4larger buildings per contractor, #72 of 95

Buildings per contractor: Colorado Springs and nearby markets

  1. Colorado Springs35.4
  2. Denver39.8
  3. Albuquerque31.6
  4. Provo35.0
  5. Salt Lake City30.5

28 highway, street and paving contractors are based in the Colorado Springs metro. That is 1 fewer than a year ago. When a contractor closes or sells, its customers go looking for a new one. The trade is at about the national concentration. 35.4 larger paving-buying buildings per contractor puts Colorado Springs 72 of 95 markets, and 2 of 2 in Colorado. That is toward the crowded end, so growth here comes mostly from displacing incumbents at renewal. If you can serve Denver, it has more larger buildings per contractor than Colorado Springs.

Show the market data
Colorado Springs against the nearest markets
MarketContractorsLarger buildings per contractor
Colorado Springs, CO2835.4
Denver, CO 73 mi11039.8
Albuquerque, NM 286 mi3631.6
Provo, UT 391 mi2435.0
Salt Lake City, UT 413 mi6630.5
Other Colorado markets
MarketContractorsLarger buildingsLargest buyer group
Denver1104,380Retail stores
Target account strategy

A Colorado Springs target list in three tiers

  1. Tier 123850+ on site · 2 or 3 contacts each
  2. Tier 2754every other larger paving-buying site
  3. Tier 34,142smaller sites · nurture, favor multi-site

Who to call first in Colorado Springs

  1. 1
    Retail stores337 larger sitesStore or regional facilities manager, landlord property manager
  2. 2
    Ambulatory health care offices and clinics232 larger sitesPractice administrator, office manager, landlord property manager
  3. 3
    Apartment property management firms172 in the metroRegional property manager, community manager, maintenance supervisor

Tier 1 covers retail stores, ambulatory health care offices and clinics and churches and religious organizations with 50 or more people on site.

How Abstrakt runs it

What your Colorado Springs appointment-setting program looks like

Your outsourced sales development team works the numbers above under your name. Here is the plan for Colorado Springs commercial paving contractors.

  1. 01

    Build the Colorado Springs list

    Your ideal customer profile becomes a target list drawn from the 992 larger paving-buying buildings in the metro, starting in El Paso County. That fits inside the 1,500-account list a Foundation program starts with, leaving room to add Denver if your crews travel.

  2. 02

    Reach the person who signs

    For paving, that starts with the store or regional facilities manager at retail stores, then two or three contacts at each of the 238 Tier 1 sites. Calls, email and LinkedIn run together; Growth adds direct mail and intent data.

  3. 03

    Call every month, with the right message

    Your SDR calls all year. Mar–May is the push for bid meetings ahead of the work season (Jun–Sep); the other months lead with service problems, renewals and budgets, so the pipeline never stops filling.

  4. 04

    Book only qualified meetings

    Every meeting passes Right Company, Right Contact and Right Timing, and arrives with the lot condition, the last sealcoat date and the budget timing.

  5. 05

    See every dial

    The Results Portal shows every call, email, conversation and booked meeting in the Colorado Springs program, around the clock.

Guaranteed. We agree the activity or qualified-appointment number in writing before launch. If we miss it, we keep working at no additional cost until we hit it.

Exclusive. We run one program per trade per market, so we will not run paving appointment setting for a direct competitor in Colorado Springs.

Flat monthly pricing. Foundation is $5,000 a month (best for $2M to $10M revenue), Growth $8,500 (best for $10M to $50M), Enterprise custom. See what each plan includes.

Proof. TruSeal America booked 129 appointments and closed $344,440 in commercial revenue over 15 months. Results vary by program and are not typical of every engagement.

Territory

Where the buildings are across Colorado Springs

El Paso County holds 99% of the larger paving-buying sites across the 2-county metro. The other 1 county splits the remaining 1%, which is where Tier 1 accounts justify the drive and smaller sites do not.

  1. 971 · 99%
  2. 13 · 1%
0larger buildings in your territory
0%of the metro
0Foundation lists
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County notes
  • El Paso County: 329 larger retail stores and 231 larger ambulatory health care offices and clinics
  • Teller County: 5 larger retail stores and 4 apartment property management firms
What's being built

Colorado Springs projects that create paving work

Named, sourced projects in the metro, current as of 2026-09. Each one is a reason to call before the work is awarded.

$475 million

Swire Coca-Cola manufacturing facility

Under construction

A 620,000-square-foot bottling and production facility at Peak Innovation Park near Colorado Springs Airport, pursuing LEED Gold and expected to create 170 jobs.

Beverage production space carries large process mechanical, refrigeration and electrical scopes, plus truck courts and parking that need paving now and seal-and-stripe maintenance later.

Colorado Springs Gazette, 2026-03-27 →

Colorado Springs temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Broke ground September 2026

A 33,000-square-foot temple plus a separate meetinghouse and maintenance building on an 18.6-acre site at Flying Horse Club Drive and Barossa Valley Road in northeast Colorado Springs, on a three-to-four-year build.

The general contractor is from Utah, so local mechanical, electrical, paving and landscaping subcontracts are the opening, and an 18.6-acre grounds site needs long-term landscape maintenance.

Colorado Springs Gazette, 2026-09-06 →
Where the buyers cluster

The Colorado Springs owners to map first for paving

Health systems, campuses, large employers and industrial parks hold the biggest concentrations of buildings in the metro. Each fact links to its source, checked 2026-10.

Airport

Colorado Springs Airport (COS)

Colorado Springs, El Paso County

2,448,001 total passengers traveled through COS in 2025, down 1.0% from 2024.

A city-owned airport with a passenger terminal, parking lots, airfield pavement and a business park at its entrance.

City of Colorado Springs →
Industrial park

Peak Innovation Park

Colorado Springs, El Paso County

Peak Innovation Park is a 2,300-acre business park owned by the Colorado Springs Airport, adjacent to its primary entrance.

An airport-owned park with aerospace, defense and distribution buildings, where new pads and buildings add roads, lots and site work.

SoCo Digest →
Public owner

Fort Carson

Fort Carson, El Paso County

Fort Carson's February 2025 fact sheet lists it as the 3rd largest employer in Colorado with 29.5K employees.

An Army post with barracks, family housing, motor pools, training ranges and administrative buildings.

U.S. Army Fort Carson →
Also anchoring the metro
  • UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central (health system, Colorado Springs, El Paso County): UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central is a 413-bed hospital. UCHealth
  • University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) (campus, Colorado Springs, El Paso County): UCCS reported total enrollment of 11,153 students at the fall 2025 census. UCCS Institutional Research
  • Microchip Technology Fab 5 (major employer, Colorado Springs, El Paso County): Microchip describes its Colorado Springs Fab 5 as a 50-acre, 580,000-square-foot campus. Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade
Signals in the Colorado Springs data

Where the openings are this year

  • Ambulatory health care offices and clinics: 150 more establishments than a year ago

    In this category the usual openings are patient complaints, accessibility review, building sale. New owners inherit a parking lot and a maintenance schedule that nobody wrote down.

  • Churches and religious organizations: 10 more establishments than a year ago

    In this category the usual openings are capital campaign, building committee review, visible deterioration. New owners inherit a parking lot and a maintenance schedule that nobody wrote down.

  • Commercial property management firms: 2 more establishments than a year ago

    In this category the usual openings are budget season, new property under management, tenant complaints. New owners inherit a parking lot and a maintenance schedule that nobody wrote down.

  • Retail stores: 69 fewer establishments than a year ago

    Consolidation moves buildings to new owners and operators, who usually rebid service agreements.

  • 1 fewer commercial paving contractors than a year ago

    Buildings whose contractor closed, retired or sold are open to a new relationship.

Discovery questions

What to ask Colorado Springs's top paving prospects first

Retail stores337 larger sites

Start with: Does the store control the parking lot, or does the landlord or shopping center manage it?

What usually opens the door here: remodel, customer complaints, slip and trip incidents.

Ambulatory health care offices and clinics232 larger sites

Start with: Does the practice lease the building, and if so, who manages the lot?

What usually opens the door here: patient complaints, accessibility review, building sale.

Apartment property management firms172 in the metro

Start with: How many communities do you manage, and are the lots handled by one paving contractor or several?

What usually opens the door here: acquisition and renovation, resident complaints, budget season.

More questions for every prospect type, and how to follow up after the meeting, are in the paving prospecting playbook.

12-month calling calendar

What to say to Colorado Springs property and facility teams, month by month

Average lows sit at or above 40°F for 4 months a year (Jun–Sep); January bottoms out at 13°F. That is the work season. Budgets, bids and contracts for it get decided in Mar–May, the push months for bid meetings; in-season calls build next year's list while the work is visible.

Your SDR calls every month. The calendar changes the message, not the effort: push for bid meetings in the red months, lead with service problems in peak months, and build the renewal list the rest of the year.

  1. Jan41° / 13°Renewals + pipeline
  2. Feb42° / 14°Renewals + pipeline
  3. Mar49° / 21°Bid-meeting push
  4. Apr55° / 27°Bid-meeting push
  5. May65° / 36°Bid-meeting push
  6. Jun76° / 45°Work season: service angle
  7. Jul80° / 50°Work season: service angle
  8. Aug78° / 49°Work season: service angle
  9. Sep72° / 41°Work season: service angle
  10. Oct60° / 30°Renewals + pipeline
  11. Nov49° / 21°Renewals + pipeline
  12. Dec41° / 13°Renewals + pipeline
Working in Colorado

Licensing that affects who you can book

Colorado does not license general contractors or roofers at the state level, so licensing is handled by individual cities and counties. The state does register electrical contractors and fire suppression contractors.

Confirm current rules with Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, Division of Professions and Occupations.

Paving & Asphalt in Colorado Springs, answered

How many commercial paving contractors are in Colorado Springs?+

The Colorado Springs, CO metro has 28 highway, street and paving contractors as of 2025 Q2, down 1 from a year earlier. The trade is about the national concentration.

Which Colorado Springs buildings buy the most commercial paving and parking lot work?+

By count of sites with 20 or more employees: retail stores (337), ambulatory health care offices and clinics (232), apartment property management firms (172) and churches and religious organizations (58). Relative to the national mix, ambulatory health care offices and clinics are the standout.

When should commercial paving contractors prospect in Colorado Springs?+

Mar–May, before property and facility teams are absorbed by peak season (Jun–Sep).

Which counties should a Colorado Springs paving territory cover?+

El Paso County holds 99% of the larger paving-buying sites across the 2-county metro. The other 1 county splits the remaining 1%, which is where Tier 1 accounts justify the drive and smaller sites do not.

Does Abstrakt work with more than one paving company in Colorado Springs?+

No. Abstrakt runs one program per trade per market and will not run the same program for a direct competitor in your territory.

Sources and method

  • Contractors, building-type change and concentration: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2025 Q2, highway, street and paving contractors (NAICS 237310), Colorado Springs, CO.
  • Buildings by type and size, and county split: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. Larger sites have 20 or more employees; property management firms are counted in full; suppressed size classes count as zero, so tiers are a floor. “vs. U.S. mix” is the BLS establishment location quotient.
  • Climate: NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county monthly series, 1991-2020 averages. Work-season months average a low of 40°F or above; the three months before are marked for prospecting.
  • Licensing: Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, Division of Professions and Occupations, checked 2026-09-30.
  • Projects: the source linked on each project card.
  • Anchor owners: the source linked on each card, read 2026-10.
  • Photo: Downtown Colorado Springs with the Front Range behind, by Kevin Bree on Unsplash.
  • Prospect types and contacts: Abstrakt's commercial trades sales practice. Reviewed 2026-09-30.