Industrial Painting Contractor in Grand Rapids, MI: 323K Sq Ft Job

Project Description

A city cannot run public works, parks and recreation, and fleet management out of six scattered buildings forever. Eventually, the mismatched paint systems, the maintenance calls, and the wasted time between departments catch up. As an industrial painting contractor in Grand Rapids, MI, H&H Painting Co. handled the new City of Grand Rapids Public Service Center, a 323,000-square-foot campus built to combine those three departments under one roof.

The property includes a renovated office building, a renovated garage, a new garage addition, a new fleet and refuse building, a new fuel and washout building, and a new vehicle wash building, each with different surfaces and exposure. H&H Painting Co. matched the coating system to the substrate rather than applying a blanket approach across the entire site. The result is a unified, protected facility built for daily municipal use.

Project Overview

Location
Grand Rapids, MI
Project Type
Commercial (Municipal Public Works Campus)
Facility Size
323,000 square feet across six structures
Project Scope
Industrial cleaning and surface prep, intumescent coatings, high performance coatings, elastomeric coatings, concrete staining, wood finishing, traditional painting

Project Scope: Industrial Painting Contractor in Grand Rapids, MI

Renovated Office Building
The existing office building needed a finish that matched a modern, unified campus rather than looking like a leftover from the old, separate departments. Crews handled traditional painting across walls, trim, and ceilings, working around drywall repairs where the building’s age had caught up with it.
Renovated and New Garage Facilities
The existing garage and its new addition both needed systems built for daily vehicle traffic, not office-grade paint. H&H Painting Co. applied high-performance coatings rated for heavy-equipment contact and concrete staining to protect and finish the floor areas where trucks and machinery operate all day.
New Fleet & Refuse Building
This new structure needed the same heavy-duty protection from day one. The team applied high-performance coatings to interior surfaces exposed to constant vehicle movement, fuel residue, and equipment traffic.
New Fuel & Washout Building and Vehicle Wash Building
These structures face constant moisture, chemical exposure, and runoff. Elastomeric coatings were applied to exterior surfaces to waterproof and bridge hairline cracks during Michigan’s freeze-thaw cycles, and industrial cleaning prepped every surface before the coatings were applied.
Fire Protection and Interior Finishing
Where structural steel required fire protection, the crew applied intumescent coatings, which expand when heated to slow the steel’s loss of strength in a fire. Interior wood elements received wood finishing to match the rest of the campus.

Property managers overseeing similar multi-building sites can see the full range of what we handle through our commercial painting services in Grand Rapids, MI.

Why Choose H&H Painting Co.

Coordinating six buildings, six substrate types, and a public deadline is where a lot of contractors start handing off the hard parts to subcontractors. H&H Painting Co. did not.

Every coating discipline used on this project, industrial cleaning, intumescent, high-performance, elastomeric, wood finishing, and traditional painting, was self-performed by one crew, so nothing got lost between subcontractors.
OSHA-certified painters managed surface prep and application for new construction and renovation projects without delaying a public project’s timeline.
A team with 560 years of combined experience matched each coating system to its actual exposure rather than using a single spec for the whole site.

If your facility spans multiple buildings and use cases, see our commercial painting services in Grand Rapids, MI and get a scope built around what your property actually needs.

Result of Industrial Painting Contractor in Grand Rapids, MI

The Public Service Center now operates as a single connected facility rather than six disconnected ones. Public Works, Parks and Recreation, and Fleet Management operate out of a single 323,000 square foot campus, with each building finished in a coating system matched to how it is actually used: heavy-duty systems in the garage and fleet areas, fire-rated protection on structural steel, weatherproof elastomeric coatings on the exterior, and clean traditional painting in the office spaces.

The completed 2026 campus demonstrates that an industrial painting contractor in Grand Rapids, MI, can handle commercial coatings work for new construction, renovation, and industrial use under a single contract.

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