Industrial and Commercial General Contractors
Poteet, TX

The Strawberry Fields development is the biggest residential story in Poteet right now. At 380 homes, it will nearly double the city's housing inventory when fully built out, and it creates a sustained pipeline of slab foundation work, driveway installations, and residential flatwork that will run for several years. Production builders working a subdivision of this scale need a general contractor who can maintain consistent quality across multiple simultaneous pours, meet tight scheduling windows that fit between framing and mechanical rough-in, and handle the permit coordination with Atascosa County and the city's building department without requiring the general contractor to manage those details. That's precisely how we operate.

Atascosa County's agricultural soils—the same black gumbo clays that make the region so productive for strawberries—are challenging for foundation systems. These highly expansive soils shrink and swell dramatically with moisture changes, and slabs poured on inadequately prepared subgrade will move, crack, and create costly maintenance issues for homeowners within just a few years. We address this proactively: soil moisture conditioning before grading, compaction testing to confirm density, and foundation designs—typically post-tension or conventionally reinforced per a geotechnical recommendation—that account for the actual clay plasticity index of the site. In Poteet, cutting corners on subgrade prep is how you earn call-backs that eat your profit margin on future work.

Agricultural concrete scope in the Poteet area includes equipment storage slabs, cold storage building foundations, packing shed floor systems, and irrigation pump pads. A strawberry operation's construction needs are more specialized than they appear: cold storage floor slabs need to handle the combination of floor drain locations, refrigeration system loads, and the freeze-thaw cycling that refrigerated environments impose on concrete edges and joints. Packing shed floors need surface hardening treatments that resist the mechanical wear of wooden pallet handling and forklift traffic while remaining cleanable to food production standards.

The 18,600-square-foot Poteet ISD Agricultural Science Facility represents a different kind of institutional investment—a building designed for hands-on agricultural education that needs concrete appropriate for both classroom and working-farm conditions. Animal pen areas, equipment demonstration spaces, and outdoor work yards have concrete requirements that differ from standard school construction, and we bring that agricultural/institutional hybrid experience to the project. School district capital work in Texas also requires the full complement of contractor qualifications: bonding, insurance, prevailing wage compliance, and documentation for state audit requirements.

Inner Loop Construction serves Poteet and Atascosa County with construction services spanning residential, agricultural, commercial, and institutional projects. We understand the soil conditions, the permit process, and the construction market in this part of South Texas. If you're building in the Strawberry Fields subdivision, expanding an agricultural operation south of town, or developing commercial space along Highway 16, reach out and we'll give you a concrete plan built for what your site and your project actually require.