The Road to the Future
The Walton’s respect for their company’s heritage is coupled with a progressive attitude about the business’s future. As a specialist in heavy, highway, and industrial construction, drainage, projects, and plant-site development, J.S. Walton & Co. has played a key role in a number of projects contributing to Mobile and Baldwin Counties’ explosive growth –from the region’s transportation infrastructure to downtown redevelopment.

J.S. Walton & Co. was instrumental in completing one of the area’s most ambitious road-construction projects, the Foley Beach express. Designed to alleviate the high volume of traffic to Gulf Shores, and to serve as an evacuation route, the Express project consists of three separate Phases: a 7.5 mile roadway from Alabama highway 59 South to Baldwin County Highway 20, a 6.4 mile roadway from Highway 20 to the Toll Plaza, and the approaches for the toll bridge across the intercoastal waterway to Canal Road. J.S. Walton & Co. built the first phase as a project for the City of Foley and participated in the second phase with a privately owned company. During the 15 month construction project, J.S. Walton & Co. moved more than 1,500,000 cubic yards of excavated material and was awarded the prestigious 2001 Build Alabama award for new highway construction by the Alabama Branch of the Associated General Contractors of America.

The Company’s road construction projects have had a dramatic effect on the quality of life in the area. The widening of University Boulevard greatly improved access to the University of South Alabama, the expansion of Highway 98 in Fairhope helped facilitate an extremely high traffic flow, and the rehabilitation of Water Street was an important element in energizing downtown re-development.

A major player in the region’s industrial development, J.S. Walton & Co. has provided extensive plant-site developments in Mobile and surrounding areas. J.S. Walton & Co. also handled site development for Naval Station Mobile at the Navy Homeport and a runway addition at Bates Field.