Twenty-nine million square feet of office, and every crew but ours runs on gas
Perimeter Center spans Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and Brookhaven: the King and Queen towers, Pill Hill’s three hospitals and the medical office buildings around them, the UPS, Cox and Newell headquarters, the retail around Perimeter Mall, and the office parks and apartment communities on Ashford-Dunwoody, Hammond, Perimeter Center Parkway and Peachtree Dunwoody. Somewhere on that map, right now, a gas mower is running under a conference room window.
Oak Avenue is based inside the district. Every piece of equipment we run is battery-powered and charged from solar panels on our trailer. We mow during business hours without a tenant complaint, we don’t leave exhaust at a hospital entrance, and the City of Dunwoody gave us its Sustainability Hero Award for it in 2023.
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Who we serve
Medical office buildings and clinics around Pill Hill. Small and mid-size office parks. Churches and private schools along Mt. Vernon and Ashford-Dunwoody. HOA and condominium common areas: entrances, pools, clubhouses. Senior living. Retail centers. Multifamily communities.
What you get every month
A named account manager, and it’s the owner. Lloyd Fisher answers the phone, walks the property, and is on site with the crew. There’s no branch manager between you and the person doing the work.
A monthly photo report. Date-stamped photos of every service item completed, a checklist against your scope, anything we spotted (an irrigation leak, a dead shrub, a drainage problem forming at a downspout), and enhancement recommendations. Sent the last week of every month.
A 48-hour response promise. Call or email, and you’ll hear back within two business days with what we’re going to do about it.
Tenant-hours scheduling in writing. Because the equipment is quiet, we’ll put it in the contract: service during business hours, no noise complaints, or we reschedule at our cost.
A 52-week service calendar with the proposal, so you know what’s happening in February as well as June.
Services
Mowing, edging and blowing (all electric). Bed maintenance, pruning and mulch or pine straw. Seasonal color rotations. Fertilization, weed control and pest control with a sustainable option for each. Irrigation checks and repairs. Leaf removal and seasonal cleanups. Tree and shrub care. Hardscape and walkway cleaning. Drainage repairs and enhancements. Native plant installations and pollinator beds for properties reporting on sustainability.
Why electric matters on a commercial site
Noise. Our blowers and mowers run roughly 30 decibels quieter than gas equipment, which is about one-eighth the perceived loudness. Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and Brookhaven all regulate contractor hours; we’ve never needed the exemption.
Emissions. A two-stroke gas blower puts out more smog-forming pollution in half an hour than a pickup truck does on a long road trip.
Air at the door. No exhaust at a hospital entrance, a school pickup line or a restaurant patio.
Credentials
Certificate of insurance on request. E-Verify enrolled. Member, Georgia Urban Ag Council. City of Dunwoody Sustainability Hero Award, 2023. Listed by Quiet GA. Featured in Appen Media.
Twelve months on a Perimeter property
Property managers budget by the month, so here is the year the way we schedule it. Nothing in it should be a surprise, which is the whole point.
February and March. Pre-emergent goes down when the soil warms to about 55 degrees a couple of inches down, not on a fixed date. Around here that is usually the last week of February or the first two weeks of March, but a mild winter pulls it forward, so we watch the soil rather than the calendar. Beds get cut back and edged, and this is when we walk the property with you and flag whatever did not come through the winter.
April and May. Mulch refresh, the first mowings, irrigation start-up and a head-by-head check for anything the freeze cracked. Spring is also when shrubs that flower on old wood get pruned, right after they bloom. That timing is the difference between a hedge that flowers next year and one that does not.
June through August. Weekly mowing, trimming and blowing on a fixed day, bed weeding, and a second pre-emergent on properties with a lot of open turf. Bermuda takes the heat. Fescue in shade does not, and we would rather tell you in June that a strip of it is going to thin out than explain it in September.
September and October. A fall pre-emergent for annual bluegrass, the weed that makes a property look neglected in February. Where there is fescue, October is the overseeding window: cool nights, warm soil, and enough time to root before frost. Aeration happens in this stretch too.
November and December. Leaf work, which on a wooded Perimeter site is most of the labour for two months straight. Irrigation blown out and shut down. Dormant pruning on the plants that want it.
January. The quiet month, and the one worth using. Hardscape repairs, drainage fixes and bed rebuilds all happen more easily while the turf is dormant and the decks are half empty.
Storms ignore the calendar. Limbs down, a blocked inlet, a bed washed out after a heavy night: those get handled when they happen and appear in the monthly report rather than as a separate conversation.
What makes a Perimeter site different from a yard
Access sets the schedule more than acreage does. Three MARTA stations, two self-taxing improvement districts and a district that fills and empties twice a day mean the practical constraints are rarely about turf. Parking decks have height bars a trailer will not clear, loading zones are held for deliveries, and the quarter hour spent finding a legal place to park is a quarter hour not spent on the property. We work that out on the first walk and write it into the schedule instead of rediscovering it every week.
Around Pill Hill, the route matters. Ambulance approaches, patient drop-offs and shift changes all have times attached to them. We stage away from entrances and we do not block a lane to save ourselves a walk.
Quiet is what lets us work during business hours. A battery mower under a conference room window at ten in the morning is a non-event. A gas mower in the same spot is a phone call to your office by ten fifteen. That is the practical argument for the equipment being electric, and it is why we do not need the six a.m. slot that irritates whoever lives on the other side of the property line.
The honest exception. Some machines are loud no matter what powers them. A stump grinder, a plate compactor and a masonry saw are all genuinely noisy, and we schedule those early, late or on a weekend by agreement rather than pretend otherwise.
Tenant events and leasing tours. Tell us when they are. A property that was mowed and edged yesterday shows better than one being mowed while the tour walks through it, and shifting a visit by a day costs nothing if we know in advance.
Questions property managers ask
Can a small company handle a multi-acre property? We size contracts to what we can service on time every week. Our sweet spot is properties from half an acre to about five acres of maintained grounds, and portfolios of several small properties in the district.
Is electric equipment as fast as gas? Yes. Commercial battery mowers and blowers match gas on output; the trailer carries enough charged batteries for a full day and recharges from solar between stops.
Do you provide a COI and a W-9 before starting? Yes, with the proposal. We’re registered on vendor-compliance platforms used by HOA management companies.
How do you price? By the property, after a site walk: square footage of turf and beds, number of visits, seasonal color, irrigation. Annual contracts billed monthly, with a 52-week calendar attached.
Can you start mid-contract if our current vendor is failing? Yes. Most of our commercial clients came to us between contract years.
Do you do snow and ice? No, and we would rather say so than take the contract and let you find out in January. Atlanta gets a handful of ice events a year, they need salt spreaders and plows sitting idle for eleven months, and a crew that is not set up for it does a poor job at the worst possible moment. We are happy to refer a contractor who does it properly and to coordinate with them on your site. What we do handle is the winter work that actually turns up most years: downed limbs after a storm, debris in the drive lanes, blocked catch basins and inlets, and the hardscape and drainage jobs that are easiest to do while the turf is dormant and the decks are half empty.
Where we work
Perimeter Center is the middle of our map rather than the edge of it. The residential and small-commercial side of each city has its own page: Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Brookhaven, Chamblee, Doraville and Peachtree Corners. The two services property managers ask about most are drainage, French drains and grading and fertilization, weed and pest control.
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