Before Metal Dreams, there was Planit Dirt. James has been pouring concrete for over 30 years in Jacksonville. Driveways. Foundations. Patios. Slabs for the buildings other people were putting up. He did that over three decades to become one of the most enduring concrete enterprises in Central Arkansas, operating in Little Rock, North Little Rock, Sherwood, Conway, Cabot, Benton, Bryant, Maumelle and Alexander. A long time to work in the same place. So long, in fact, that James has poured a driveway in the nineties and a pool deck for their children twenty years later. You don’t get a second call like that by cutting corners on the first one.

Metal Dreams grew out of that work naturally. All steel buildings begin with a slab and James had been the one pouring the slab. He knew the requirements of anchors in Arkansas clay, where they had to penetrate after a wet spring; he knew the requirements of foundations that have to hold a building for fifty years. It was only logical to add the structure on top. So, when you call Metals Dreams, it’s not a startup that appeared last year. You’re calling a man who’s been building in these towns since before some of his customers were born, using the same crews, out of the same yard, under a name people around here already know. The steel is new. The standards behind it aren’t!