Nick’s alma mater — and the campus where the whole thing started.

In September 2020, Nick brought a sports-turf contractor and the school’s athletic director together to talk about building Hollywood Hills a stadium of its own. He paid an engineering firm $8,900 for a complete set of plans: a 97,260-square-foot FieldTurf field to NFHS standards, Spartans end zones, site layout and all. In September 2021 he presented it to a room of district facilities and athletics staff at the school.

The stadium hasn’t been built yet. But from 2022 on, U.S. Pave came back every year — three rounds of asphalt repair across the front and Community School lots, new car stops, two seasons of football-field striping, pressure washing, and a fresh stripe on the student lot. In May 2025 Nick stood on the auditorium stage and handed two graduating Spartans $2,000 U.S. Pave scholarships each — and the football team got $1,000 of its own.

• Asphalt repair, front & Community School lots (3 visits, 2022–24)$18,000
• Football field striping, two seasons$4,000
• Pressure washing & student lot striping$3,500
• New car stops$800
• Two $2,000 U.S. Pave scholarships to graduating seniors — May 2025$4,000
• Spartan football program$1,000
• Stadium engineering & FieldTurf plans (paid personally)$8,900

The School Board’s own front door — a paid public lot in downtown Fort Lauderdale, used every day by district police, permit holders and the public.

U.S. Pave has maintained the K.C. Wright surface lot for three consecutive years: two full sealcoat-and-stripe cycles with TreadCoat™, fresh striping in the parking garage — and the job nobody else was going to take.

In the middle of the lot sat a raised concrete island left over from a gated guard entrance. The shack was long gone, but everything under it wasn’t: the island itself, the steel bollards, the shade-sail canopy, and the electrical conduit and plumbing still buried in the slab. It was in the way of every car that came through. U.S. Pave took all of it out — cut the canopy poles, pulled the bollards, broke out and hauled off the concrete, disconnected and removed the electrical and plumbing, then excavated and rebuilt the base where the footings had been. Finally the area was paved to match the surrounding lot so cleanly that no one would know an island had been there. Demolition, utilities, concrete, earthwork and asphalt — on a live pay lot, staged in sections so it never closed.

• Sealcoat & stripe, full lot — two cycles$44,000
• Guard-entrance island demolished — concrete, bollards, canopy, electrical & plumbing removed; base rebuilt; paved to match the lot$32,000
• Parking garage striping$8,000

A lot that had actually failed — and the largest single gift U.S. Pave has made to a Broward school.

Water stood at the student drop-off canopy every time it rained. The pavement around every storm drain had sunk and cracked. Along the faculty fence line, mature tree roots had lifted the asphalt clean off the base — the row was bare dirt with car stops sitting loose in it, coned off because there was nothing left to park on. The ADA ramps were split through.

Working with the school’s principal and School Board Member Rebecca Thompson’s office, U.S. Pave scheduled the job for a Saturday so the lot would be open Monday. Crews dug out the entire root-damaged run, hauled the root masses, rebuilt the base, and laid new asphalt in every failed area. Then the whole lot was sealed with TreadCoat™ and re-striped, with ADA stalls, hatched aisles and new wheel stops rebuilt to code.

• Root remediation — full excavation of the faculty parking run
• Full-depth asphalt repair at drains, gate apron and failed areas
• TreadCoat™ sealcoat and complete re-striping
• ADA stalls, access aisles and ramps rebuilt; five new car stops$38,000

Concrete, asphalt and a Friday night on national television.

In May 2025, U.S. Pave tore out the beat-up asphalt walkways that carried fans from the parking lot to the home bleachers, dug them out, built a new base, formed and poured two new concrete sidewalks up to the stands.

In August 2026, with the Mustangs scheduled for a game broadcast on ESPN, U.S. Pave donated a full sealcoat and re-stripe of the front parking lot — new ADA stalls and signage, a double-yellow drive lane, a hatched loading zone at the covered walkway, numbered student stalls and a crosswalk at the front doors. The teacher lot is next.

The sealcoat was TreadCoat™ — 132 recycled tires went into the McArthur lot, about 2,640 lbs of rubber kept out of the landfill. U.S. Pave is also a season sponsor of Mustang football.

• Front parking lot — TreadCoat™ sealcoat (132 tires recycled) & full re-stripe$22,000
• Two new concrete sidewalks to the football stands$12,000
• Mustang football season sponsorship

Sunrise starts, so the lot is done before the first bell.

U.S. Pave repaired the failed areas across Western’s front and guest lots in 2025 — pink-marked, saw-cut, and patched full-depth — with crews unloading at dawn and courtesy signs at the front walk.

Before that, in 2024, Nick and his crew lined the Wildcats’ football field twice for the season: yard lines, hash marks and numbers, stenciled by hand. In 2025 they came back to reposition the goal post on the practice field. Off the pavement, U.S. Pave has backed the Wildcat booster club two years running — $1,000 in 2024 and $4,800 in 2025.

• Asphalt repairs, front & guest lots — 2025$9,000
• Football field striping, two seasons — 2024$4,000
• Western booster club — 2024 & 2025$5,800
• Practice-field goal post repositioned

Students in the Environmental Science & Everglades Restoration Magnet Program raised the money for engraved commemorative bricks. On Saturday, October 17, U.S. Pave installs them — the same kind of brick walk that marks generations of Spartans at Hollywood Hills.