Storefronts on the main road, shops and equipment barns out in the county. Diamond D Builders is the Huntington commercial contractor that builds both, with the site work included.
Huntington is a small, close-knit Angelina County community on US 69, southeast of Lufkin. Its businesses, farms, and ranches need buildings that work hard: shops, equipment barns, storefronts, and steel structures that get used every day.
That mix is why a commercial contractor in Huntington, TX has to be comfortable on two kinds of job. One week it's a storefront or a small office on a lot in town. The next it's a steel equipment building on acreage that has never had a road cut into it. We do both with the same crews, and our clearing operators prepare the site so the whole project runs under one contract.
People here value a builder who shows up when they said they would and gives a straight number. That's how we've run jobs since 2009.
Storefronts, small offices, and service businesses, built new or finished out inside an existing building. A written scope and a fixed price come before any work, and one project lead runs the job through the final inspection. See commercial construction.
Workshops, equipment barns, hay barns, storage, and agricultural buildings, plus commercial steel buildings for local businesses. Our own welders handle custom fabrication, and we pour the slab under the same contract. See metal buildings.
Brush clearing, tree removal, grading, and pad prep for lots in town and rural acreage outside it, including access roads into the back of a property. See land clearing and site work.
Roof checks, drainage, storm repairs, and general upkeep for commercial and agricultural buildings, whether we built them or not. See facility maintenance.
Every job gets the same paperwork, whatever its size: an itemized scope, a fixed bid, and written change orders. We're a commercial contractor in Huntington who already works with construction lenders and draw schedules, so even a small shop gets a contract you can take to the bank.
A site on the main road and a site down a county road ask different things of a commercial contractor in Huntington. Here's how we plan for each.
| Typical buildings | In town: storefronts, small offices, service shops. In the county: equipment barns, shops, ag buildings. |
|---|---|
| Site prep | In town: grading, drainage, parking, and concrete. In the county: clearing, stump removal, access, and a built-up pad. |
| Drainage | Planned for East Texas rain on both, so water moves away from the slab instead of under it |
| Utilities | Rural sites may need septic, which has its own county requirements. We plan for it in the scope. |
| Permits | Through the city or Angelina County, depending on where the site sits. We pull them and book each inspection. |
Many Huntington owners are building on family land, sometimes a wooded tract passed down through generations, and they want to put it to work. That might mean a shop for a business, a steel barn for equipment, or a house. Our custom homes and remodels are a smaller side of what we do, built by the same crew and the same fixed-scope approach as our commercial work. If the land needs clearing first, our equipment crew handles that too, so you're not lining up three contractors for one project.
More answers are on the FAQ page.
Yes. We build equipment buildings, shops, hay barns, and agricultural storage, with the site work, slab, and steel erection all in one contract.
We do. Sites outside town fall under Angelina County, and we pull the permits the job needs and schedule every inspection. County information is on the Angelina County website.
Yes. Parking, curbing, concrete, and drainage are part of our commercial work, so the building and the lot go under one contract and one schedule. That avoids the gap where a finished building sits waiting on a paving crew.
Yes. We maintain credentials through the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation and carry commercial general liability and workers' comp. We provide proof before a contract is signed.
Send us the site and what the building has to do. We'll reply within one business day.