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Thirty years of Arkansas concrete. Now the building on top.

Metal Dreams isn't a startup that appeared last year. It grew out of a Jacksonville concrete company that has been pouring slabs for these towns for three decades.

Dark steel building with a covered porch

Before Metal Dreams, there was Planit Dirt

James has been pouring concrete in Jacksonville for more than 30 years. Driveways. Foundations. Patios. Slabs for the buildings other people were putting up.

Over three decades, Planit Dirt became one of the enduring concrete companies in Central Arkansas, working in Little Rock, North Little Rock, Sherwood, Conway, Cabot, Benton, Bryant, Maumelle, and Alexander. Long enough that James has poured a driveway in the nineties and a pool deck for the same family's children twenty years later. You don't get that second call by cutting corners on the first one.

Metal Dreams grew out of that work naturally. Every steel building begins with a slab, and James had been the one pouring it. He knew how deep anchors have to reach in Arkansas clay after a wet spring, and what a foundation needs to hold a building for decades. Adding the structure on top was the logical next step. The steel is new. The standards behind it aren't.

30+

Years pouring concrete in Central Arkansas

40-yr

Written paint warranty on panel coatings

6

Building types, each sized to your site

How we work

  • Specced for the site

    Framing, roof pitch, and anchoring are set for where the building goes and what goes in it, not pulled from a size chart.

  • Free estimates, no deposit

    Explain the project and we'll tell you what it takes. The estimate is free, with no obligation and nothing down.

  • Written, not ballpark

    You get a written estimate after we've settled the size, gauge, and panel package that fits.

  • See it before it's built

    Our 3D software shows your building with your dimensions, panel profile, and colors, so you approve a picture rather than imagine one.

  • Our own crews

    The same team that specs the building sets the anchors, out of the same yard, on the delivery date you were quoted.

  • Honest about size

    If a smaller building will do the job and save you money, we'll say so.

Interior framing of a steel building

Why steel

Two buildings can quote within a few thousand dollars of each other and cost nothing alike by year fifteen.

Wood takes on Arkansas humidity, feeds termites, and needs repainting. Steel doesn't. There's nothing to rot, warp, scrape, or seal, and panel coatings are warranted in writing for 40 years against chalk, fade, chip, and rust perforation. Add insurance treatment and repair frequency, and the building that's cheaper on day one often isn't.

Where we build

Across Arkansas, from the Delta to the Ozarks, out of our yard at 7516 W Republican Rd, Jacksonville, AR 72076.

Regular crew routes

  • Fayetteville
  • Springdale
  • Bentonville
  • Conway
  • Pine Bluff
  • Jacksonville

Where our concrete work started

  • Little Rock
  • North Little Rock
  • Sherwood
  • Cabot
  • Benton
  • Bryant
  • Maumelle
  • Alexander

Not on the list? We build in every town in between. Tell us where you are.

Tell us what you're building

Tell us what you're building and where it's going. Estimates are free, with no obligation and no deposit.