Concrete Contractor in Pinecrest, Plant City

Three plats recorded in 1925 beside the Strawberry Festival lots

Pinecrest is really three plats. Pinecrest itself (90 lots) was recorded on February 26, 1925, West Pinecrest (64 lots) followed three days later on March 1, and North Pinecrest (7 lots) came that November. That's 161 lots on about 72 acres, all inside Plant City limits, in ZIP 33563. Inside the lines you'll find West Granfield Avenue, West Lowry Avenue, West Moody Avenue, Westside Drive, Waver Street, Mays Street, Violet Street, Cassell Street and Pinecrest Street, with Reynolds Street (State Road 574), Sammonds Road, North Woodrow Wilson Street and North Ritter Street along the edges.

It isn't all houses. The 2026 tax roll counts 148 parcels here: 100 single-family homes, 17 vacant residential lots, plus churches, nonprofits, a few small offices and auto shops. The Florida Strawberry Festival owns 8 of them, and its parking and maintenance center sit on or against the plats. Tomlin Middle School is just outside the line, a CSX rail line runs close by, and Burchwood Park and William Jennings Bryan Elementary are within about 330 meters.

Arents fill and Zolfo sand: what sits under a Pinecrest slab

The county's soil layer splits the Pinecrest plats into a handful of units. About 49% is Zolfo fine sand and about 20% is Seffner fine sand. Nearly a quarter, about 24%, is Arents, the soil survey's name for ground that has been reworked or filled. Small pieces map as Myakka-Urban land and St. Johns fine sand, which drain poorly. All told, about 92% of the ground is rated somewhat poorly drained, and the shallowest seasonal water table listed is about 76 cm (roughly 2.5 feet) in the Zolfo and about 69 cm in the Arents. Those shares describe the whole platted area, so treat them as a picture of the neighborhood, not a reading of your yard.

Here's why that matters. Arents is disturbed ground, so it pays to see what's in it before forms go down. For a slab floor, Florida's building code (R506.2.1) wants the fill free of vegetation and foreign material, compacted for uniform support, and no deeper than 24 inches of clean sand or gravel, or 8 inches of earth, unless approved. At the free estimate we can probe soft spots, check grade, and plan for every slab to shed water away from the house. Our guide to concrete on sandy soil covers base prep step by step.

The federal wetland inventory shows no mapped wetlands inside the plats, and Spartman Branch, the nearest mapped stream, runs about 280 meters away.

Concrete Pricing

Here are our typical ranges for concrete work in Pinecrest. You get a free written estimate once we've walked the lot.

Ranges, not a quote. Breaking out an old driveway adds $2 to $4 per sq ft, and soft fill found at the visit gets priced as its own line. Free written estimate after we see the site.

City-owned streets, the 6-inch apron and lots facing State Road 574

Every residential street inside the Pinecrest plats, about 4.1 km in the county's centerline file, is owned and maintained by the City of Plant City. So the city writes the rules for the strip between your property line and the pavement. Its driveway FAQ asks for 3000 psi concrete with fiber in the right-of-way, at least 6 inches thick, and no rebar or mesh in that piece. Where a culvert is required, it's at least 15-inch concrete pipe with mitered end sections. Crack control in the apron uses full-depth pressure-treated wood joints instead of saw cuts, and no meter boxes, cleanouts, laterals or water service lines can sit under the driveway. The slab has to fall toward the road, never back toward the house.

A city inspector checks the forms before the pour, and that visit takes 24 hours' notice to book. After that, the apron is yours to maintain: the city's repairs stop at the edge of pavement. Our Plant City driveway permit walkthrough covers the paperwork, and the concrete driveways page covers thickness, finish and joints on your side of the line.

Reynolds Street along the edge is State Road 574, which the state DOT owns. If your lot connects there, ask FDOT what it requires at the road before we price that apron.

What to Expect, Start to Finish

1. Call or send the form

   Tell us your Pinecrest street and what you want poured, and we'll set a time for the free on-site estimate.

2. Walk the lot

   We measure, check grade and the apron, and talk through thickness and finish with you.

3. Written quote in 48 hours

   We spell out every line and list the city apron and any tear-out on their own.

4. Permit, inspection, pour

   Once the city permit is issued and the apron forms pass inspection, we pour and leave the site clean.

Zone X on every Pinecrest lot and the $7,500 permit question

On FEMA panel 12057C0269H, the whole platted area of Pinecrest maps as Zone X, an area of minimal flood hazard, with no special flood hazard area inside the plats. That detail matters for Florida's HB 803. Since July 1, 2026, local governments must exempt qualifying non-structural work under $7,500 on single-family property from permits, but Hillsborough County notes the exemption is gone when any part of the property sits in a flood hazard area. Pinecrest lots don't hit that snag. You'd still file a written exemption request and get approval before work starts, structural work stays excluded, and you can't split a job to slip under the cap. Whether a given driveway or patio qualifies is the building official's call, so ask the City of Plant City Building Department first.

When a permit is needed, the city wants driveways, walkways and sidewalks drawn on a site plan, and the permit has to be issued before work begins. On any job over $2,500, Florida law calls for a Notice of Commencement recorded with the County Clerk before work starts. Past $5,000, a copy also goes to the building department before the first inspection.

Historic review is one step you can skip here. Pinecrest isn't inside any National Register district, and the Downtown Plant City Historic Residential District boundary is roughly 930 meters away, so the Certificate of Appropriateness the city requires for driveways in its historic districts doesn't reach these plats.

Small 1950s houses, 17 empty lots and the church and festival parcels

Homes in Pinecrest are small and mostly mid-century. Build years run from 1930 to 2025 with a median of 1956, and 65 of the 119 dated parcels went up in the 1940s and 1950s. The median single-family home has about 1,124 sq ft of living space on about 6,763 sq ft of land. On a lot that size, a 250 to 450 sq ft concrete patio out back, a new front walk or a pad for a shed or generator all fit with yard to spare.

The 17 vacant residential parcels call for a different job. A new house slab follows code that a patio doesn't: termite protection for new construction under R318, with the pest company's certificate going to the building department, and a 6-mil vapor retarder under the heated floor. For a new home, the city also wants a survey before slab inspection showing the finished floor elevation, the crown of the nearest road and all setbacks. A patio or walk only needs that plastic sheet if it's likely to be enclosed and heated later, and for termite treatment beside a patio, ask your pest control company. We pour slabs and foundations, sidewalks and walkways and stamped concrete, and we can price a pool deck on the same visit.

Church and nonprofit parcels are mixed in with the homes, including five held by Liberty Southern Baptist Church, and a walk or parking-lot repair on one of them also goes through the City Building Department. Pinecrest borders Seminole Lake, and we also work in Madison Park, Country Hills, Walden Lake and Washington Park. The service area page lists the rest.