Provost Construction & Sons Inc.

About Provost Construction & Sons Inc.

Berkley sits low across the Elizabeth River from downtown, close enough to hear the yard cranes working before the sun is up. When a cold front comes up the water and turns pavement to glass, Provost Construction & Sons Inc. is out ahead of the traffic in Norfolk — plowing, shoveling walkways, spreading salt on the surfaces that freeze first. Ice down here is a coastal thing, arriving wet and then hardening in the dark, so timing is the whole discipline. There is a particular satisfaction in a lot that is clear and gritted while the streetlights are still burning, and a door that opens onto safe footing. By the time the first shift shows up, the storm is only a story someone tells.