Commercial General Contractor in Decatur, GA.

Decatur is small in square miles but dense in the kind of building stock that generates real GC work: the downtown square around the old DeKalb County Courthouse, the restaurant and retail strip along E Ponce de Leon Ave and Church St, and the office and mixed-use buildings that have gone in around the Decatur MARTA station as the city has pushed transit-oriented redevelopment. We also cover the corridors just outside the square — Scott Blvd near Suburban Plaza, Clairmont Rd near Emory Decatur Hospital and the Atlanta VA Medical Center, and North Decatur Rd toward Emory and the CDC campus.

South and east of downtown, Oakhurst and the commercial nodes near E Lake have their own mix of small retail buildings, churches, and older multifamily properties, and we take on work there too. Whether the address falls inside the city limits or in the unincorporated DeKalb County pockets that border them changes which permitting desk we're dealing with, and we handle both.

A lot of the storefront buildings on Church St and E Ponce de Leon are pre-1950s brick construction, which means restaurant and retail buildouts there usually involve more than new paint and fixtures — outdated mechanical and electrical behind the facade, ADA-compliant restrooms, and kitchen buildouts that have to be run past the fire marshal before a tenant can open. We do that work as the GC, managing the trades on the job the way we do on any commercial interior.

On the roofing side, most of the retail, office, and mixed-use buildings in and around downtown Decatur and Suburban Plaza carry flat or low-slope roofs, which is single-ply TPO territory — the trade we self-perform rather than sub out. We also see steady demand for office and medical tenant improvement work near the Emory Decatur Hospital and VA Medical Center corridor, and roof and exterior repair on the multifamily properties scattered through Oakhurst and the neighborhoods around the square.

A principal is on every job we run, and on anything other than roofing we bring in subs with a track record on prior Integrity projects rather than self-performing trades we don't run in-house. Roofing is the one exception — our own crews do the work, and our Haag-certified reviewer writes the estimate rather than farming it out.

Permitting depends on which side of the city line the building sits on. Work inside the City of Decatur limits goes through the city's own Community & Economic Development Department, not DeKalb County — and if the building is on or near the downtown square, it's likely inside Decatur's historic district, which means a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Historic Preservation Commission before a building permit gets pulled for anything visible from the street, roofing included. Just outside the city line — parts of the Scott Blvd and North Decatur corridors — the same job runs through DeKalb County Planning & Sustainability instead. We pull the right permit from the right office rather than guessing.

Decatur's tree canopy is part of what makes the city look the way it does, and it's also a real driver of roof damage — mature oaks over the older neighborhoods and the downtown blocks mean limb strikes and wind-thrown debris show up on claims as often as straight hail damage from the thunderstorm lines that cross DeKalb County most springs and summers. Either way, the roof still has to be inspected and the damage documented before a carrier will pay for it.

We hold the highest level of Haag Certified Reviewer, which requires Xactimate certification — the same estimating software nearly every carrier uses to price a claim. That means we write the scope in the carrier's own format and can put it next to the adjuster's estimate line by line to show what's missing or underpriced, instead of arguing in general terms. Once your claim is approved, we guarantee you get the full value of it: our in-house Xactimate staff writes in every item of justified damage, including the code-required upgrades and hidden damage carriers routinely leave off, and if the approved estimate comes up short we document the gap and pursue the supplement. What the policy actually covers is between you and your carrier — we're not a public adjuster and we don't negotiate the claim on your behalf. We write the scope, document the damage, and build the repair.