By late summer, it’s the perfect time for Chicago-area facility managers to settle next year’s grounds budgets. Properties that didn’t have a planned landscaping program for a whole season are already showing the deterioration of a surface reactive treatment. From broken pavement to fading grass, and inconsistent snow removal, these are not only cosmetic issues but they can reduce the value of the property assets and affect tenant retention. This is when it’s clear that commercial landscaping services are an investment paying off. They should be understood as a complete, year-round, documented plan for maintenance and protection of curb appeal in the long run, managing liability and maximizing ROI. We at Green Day Pro Landscaping are a family-run Chicagoland business and over the past 20 years have been a reliable, professional landscaping team for different types of commercial properties – office buildings, retail complexes, industrial sites to name a few – that all require multi-season programs.
Why Multi-Season Commercial Landscaping Is Beneficial
The real estate market doesn’t have a fixed value – it keeps changing over time through various cycles. New tenants, clients, and investors who walk past the building for the first time have a visual of the building based on a few seconds of viewing and they have no idea that it was a summer peak time when you had all flowers at the peak. Their first impression is based on the overall condition of the building exterior and this is the main deciding factor for whether they get attracted to the property or not, regardless of the season.
Facility managers of Chicagoland have their unique challenges: hardscape and irrigation lines are affected by alternating freeze and thaw cycles, the springtime rain falls suddenly that the bad drainage can be overwhelmed by it, and there is not enough time in the fall to prepare for the beds and the grass before winter dormancy is on top. Properties that are under a single-season contract get into a situation of visible lack of maintenance after the first couple of years – with lawns becoming weak and pavers being jumbled and shrubs being untrimmed and overgrown which increases the chances that there is a safety hazard or it becomes a costly repair later on.
Commercial Landscaping Service Selection Key Points
Landscape service companies don’t look the same to a customer who wants multi-property or seasonal landscaping. The most important features of the company that a property owner should consider include its ability to guarantee the same professional team for the job, provide a clear schedule of services, and demonstrate that it has the equipment, technical and other support resources, and the physical space necessary to do any sort of job, from a regular maintenance of the decorative beds, to a major hardscap work.
Real Cases of Use
The whole program should encompass all types of jobs: from preparing the ground and the beds with the first springtime cleaning to lawn care, irrigation work, the seasonal fall aeration and leaves pick up, and finally a plan for the management of snow and ice – all under one contract, a single interface, and a consistent quality level. A regular check of hardscape after every season, especially of retaining walls and outdoor seating areas, is of vital benefit: identifying and fixing a problem in the early stages will be a minor repair whereas it will be a big headache if the freeze-thaw damage has gone unnoticed.
Mistakes and Pitfalls
Property managers often overlook maintenance and budgeting of commercial facilities beyond the summer time, resulting in an expensive, last-minute hiring of snow removal contractors in the autumn. Such approach results in accountability vacuum, inconsistency site standards, and much lower savings than would have been possible through the purchase of all-weather agreement covering landscaping services.
Other common pitfalls include, for example, selecting providers solely for the benefit of the lowest quotes, without making oneself well versed in their insurance policies, training of the staff, as well as checking commercial customers’ reviews with reference from similar type of commercial spaces.
How Green Day Pro Landscaping Services Help Businesses
Apart from serving a wide variety of commercial real estate types, including offices, retail centers, restaurants, multi-family properties, and factories across Chicagoland, we handle large-scale, multi-property, and seasonal landscaping programs designed to maintain properties throughout the year. For businesses looking to strengthen their property’s first impression, our guide on “Upgrading Corporate Curb Appeal: Sourcing Elite Commercial Landscaping Services” offers additional insights into maintaining a professional and inviting commercial exterior.
Landscaping Services that We Suggest
FAQs
On the business side of our operations, we offer commercial landscape maintenance, annual bed planting, seasonal decoration, sprinkler system reviews, and combined winter snow and ice removal work – one set of grounds workers plus one client services person manage your site all year round meaning no more loss/gaps from passing the baton between team leads which is what causes most servicing errors. In addition, property groups managing a combination of residential buildings that include homes and/or businesses can opt to include one of our residential yard care solutions to achieve an outsourced solution.
A multi-season commercial landscape contract will help facility managers to easily forecast the annual budgeting cycle, maintain a single point of contact, and record all service history – useful in insurance auditing, boards meetings reporting, and negotiation of leases where a building’s appearance is a decisive factor. With regard to regular scheduled program properties, they usually are much more seldomly exposed to emergency repairs, since the problem areas are already detected in visits and not left to escalate after the point when it has reached full-blown stage only. Thus, the main advantage of consistent and regularly planned commercial landscape maintenance is that you are able to catch up with most likely scenarios rather than being surprised.
Facilities and grounds management are becoming more based on the use of planned maintenance systems rather than the calling of reactive service. For example, the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) supports the idea of preventive, periodic grounds care as part of a larger asset-preservation strategy. To a certain extent, the same idea can be used for the property’s grounds as the principles that were applied to things such as building a system of Heating and air-cooling or a flat roof. Therefore, choosing landscaping contractors who operate on proven schedules, carry valid commercial liability insurance coverage, produce seasonal reporting, will keep your property in sync with these types of maintenance standards that are recognized in the industry and are preventive in essence.
There is one last chance to sign a multi-season commercial contract for landscaping during late summer, right after you’ve completed the fall budgets and the snow removal service providers are going busy with their winter work. If your property is running through a hodgepodge of seasonal contractors, it is the right time for you to switch and unify the work. Make a request for a free commercial grounds assessment at Green Day Pro Landscaping to get a well-documented seasonal-to-seasonal proposal customized to your property needs.
Property value is preserved not by just hiring someone to come by with a shovel once in spring or by a snow cleanup at Christmas but rather by a series of professional commercial landscape services that are regularly scheduled and delivered throughout the entire year in a coherent manner. For property managers and owners from Chicago and the surrounding area areas, an agreement with a multi-season landscaping service contractor would be a very secure way to maintain good first impressions of the property, avoid the risks, and ultimately support the long-term value of the property. Green Day Pro Landscaping has been creating this kind of service package for twenty years – and now we want to deliver one to your property.
1. What are the typical components of commercial landscaping services?
A typical commercial landscape maintenance service contract may include lawn mowing and other grasses cutting, bed maintenance, garden irrigation, flower installation (in different colors depending on the season) and snow removal all wrapped up into one comprehensive yearly agreement. This method of dealing with landscaping is a great help in making your property look neat and in good condition while at the same time it is a way to keep the vendors and management costs under control and your expenses predictable.
2. How often is the service for one commercial property supposed to be done?
Generally, commercial properties all around the Chicago metropolitan area are very satisfied with the service they get in the form of weekly work during the growing season, as well as the scheduled autumn clean up, the winterization, and the snow removal service. How frequent the visits and maintenance are to be done will largely depend on the property size, level of usage and tenant expectations – the best time for the customer service representative to come up with a customized work plan will be after they have done an on-site assessment.
3. Can commercial landscaping services really make a difference in property values?
Absolutely. Well-maintained grounds can significantly impact a building’s ability to retain tenants and negotiate leases as well as its overall curb appeal and initial impressions for buyers or clients. On the other hand, neglected and untended landscaping is often a sign of deeper problems and can reduce a property’s appraisal value or delay its leasing process.
4. What is the key difference between residential and commercial landscaping contractors?
Professional-level landscape contracting for commercial developments involves working with larger acreages and stricter compliance with safety, liability, and insurance standards. They also need to be able to handle multi-site or multi-season schedules. Conversely, residential landscaping is more concerned with creating appealing individual property designs tailored to home-owners’ wishes and doing the maintenance jobs homeowners request.
5. How can I convert from a single-season landscaping arrangement to a long-term multi-season one?
First of all, do a thorough ground checking to take stock of whatever your outdoor area has going for it or needs, so that you know how this fits in with a proposed all seasons arrangement. A reputable landscaping company should show you around and tell you what’s going to be done season by season, giving you details on what each period covers before you sign the contract.
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