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Paving · Pavement Maintenance · Sitework · The Southeast

Commercial paving is being bought, metro by metro.

A read on the companies that build and keep the Southeast's pavement, and on the capital now buying them. Written for the owners, not the buyers.

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Latest issue · No. 1 · Fall 2026

Private Equity Has Entered the Category. Quickly.

Six platforms since 2021, four already running crews in the Southeast. What they pay a premium for, what they discount, and what the process looked like for one Charlotte owner who went through it.

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Feature · Case study

Carolina Site: Fourteen Weeks to a Signed LOI

A Charlotte paving owner was answering one phone call. Fourteen weeks later there were nine buyer groups and a signed letter of intent; by September, a funded close. How the process ran, stage by stage.

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Zach Manis
Who writes this

I grew up on the grounds of the state fish hatchery in Pine Ridge, South Carolina, the one people of my parents' generation still call Styx. My firm carries the name. Styx Advisory Partners works only for owners of founder-led businesses, in the moments that decide what they've built is worth. If you run a paving, sealcoat, or sitework company and want a straight read on how a buyer would see it, write me or call: zim@styxadvisory.com · 917-455-8604.

Zach Manis · Founder, Styx Advisory Partners · Charlotte, North Carolina