New Businesses

Sealcoating and routine asphalt upkeep are the focus here, the kind of maintenance that shields driveways and parking lots from the water, sun, and cracking that wear pavement down over time, rather than tearing it out and starting over. It is a practical fit for property owners and businesses looking to protect and extend the life of asphalt they already have.

Panagakos Asphalt Paving puts down and repairs asphalt for homes and businesses across the Upstate, from residential driveways to the larger lots and access drives that have to hold up under daily traffic and South Carolina weather. The crew works out of White Horse Road on Greenville's south side.

Quality Control Painting takes on interior and exterior painting for homes and businesses around Mauldin and the surrounding Greenville-area communities. Projects range from full repaints to smaller touch-up and single-room work.

Southedge doesn't subcontract its painting. Every painter is on staff, background-checked, and trained by owner Mike Sanchez, a military veteran who founded this family business in 2022 under its original name, L&J Painting. The work runs from interior and exterior painting for homes and businesses to cabinet refinishing and staining for decks, doors, and log homes. Each job comes with a written agreement covering the prep and the products, and the two-year warranty stretches to five years with premium paint or a second coat. Crews work across Greenville County, from Mauldin and Simpsonville to Greer, Taylors, and Travelers Rest, and into Pickens, Spartanburg, and Oconee counties. Customers have a way of naming their painters in reviews, usually alongside the same few notes: they showed up when promised, stayed friendly, and cleaned up thoroughly.

Brightline Painting is a painting contractor working out of Greenville's West End, where its shop sits among the studios and trades along Traction Street near the Reedy River. Homeowners and property managers across the Greenville area bring the company the kind of work that turns on a clean line and an even coat: refreshing tired walls, bringing color back to a weathered exterior, and finishing the surfaces that give a space its first impression. The small set of reviews the business has earned so far leans positive, the early mark of a crew that shows up and does the job it was hired for. Weekday scheduling keeps the operation focused on planned projects rather than rushed weekend work, and the Traction Street base keeps Brightline close to the in-town neighborhoods and commercial spaces it most often paints.

123 Lock & Key is an independently run locksmith covering Easley and the nearby Upstate, the kind of shop people reach for when they are locked out, moving into a place that needs the locks rekeyed, or just need a spare key cut without waiting on a national dispatch line. Because it is run locally, the person who answers the phone is usually the one who shows up to do the work.

Pasadena Certified Farmers' Market connects the Pasadena community with certified growers and local vendors offering fresh produce, farm products and market goods. The Victory Park market takes place Saturdays from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM.

Manzella Home Services is a small, family-owned and operated HVAC and home service company proudly serving South Jersey. We specialize in heating and air conditioning installation, repair, maintenance, and replacement, along with appliance repair and other home service needs. As a licensed NJ HVACR contractor, we believe in honest recommendations, quality workmanship, fair pricing, and treating our customers like neighbors—not numbers. Whether you need an emergency repair, routine service, or a complete system replacement, you can count on our family to take care of yours.

Envirocare Landscape Management handles lawn care and landscape upkeep for properties in and around Fountain Inn, at the southern end of the Upstate. The focus, as the name suggests, leans toward managing a landscape over time: the regular mowing, trimming, and seasonal grounds work that keeps a yard in shape rather than letting it get away from you.

Piedmont Landscaping & Maintenance provides landscaping and lawn maintenance for properties around Piedmont and the surrounding Upstate South Carolina area. The work ranges from routine grounds upkeep to planting and larger landscape projects.

CP Landscaping is a landscaping and lawn care company serving the Easley area of the Upstate. Its work runs from routine lawn maintenance, mowing, and seasonal cleanups through to larger landscaping and grounds projects for residential and commercial properties.

Todd Cochran, who holds a horticulture degree from Clemson, started this design-and-install company in 2000 and still runs it as an independent, owner-led business. Projects go well past plantings, into paver patios, retaining walls, outdoor kitchens and fireplaces, and ponds, waterfalls, and fountains. Irrigation is a specialty of its own, from new systems to repairs, and the company installs artificial turf for putting greens, playgrounds, pet areas, and batting cages alongside sod. Crews also handle ongoing mowing, fertilization, pruning, and leaf removal for homes and commercial properties. Service covers Easley, Greenville, Greer, Simpsonville, Piedmont, and other Upstate towns. Reviewers often name their crew leader and praise hands-on help with design and plant choices, plus a yard left clean when the job wraps up. One returning client singled out the detailed care guidelines handed over after the install.

Easy Lawn Care handles routine lawn maintenance and landscaping, the recurring outdoor work that keeps a property looking cared for: regular mowing, edging and trimming, seasonal leaf and debris cleanup, and general yard upkeep. It is a straightforward option for homeowners and businesses that would rather hand off yard work than keep up with it themselves.

Mulch and bed work come up again and again in Yard Sarge's reviews, from tired beds brought back with fresh mulch to spring cleanups. Beyond the beds, the crew handles the routine upkeep most of us would rather hand off: mowing, edging, shrub and small-tree pruning, weed cleanup, new plantings, and sod for bare or damaged stretches of lawn. They take on commercial properties too. It's a local outfit that keeps its territory close to home, working Simpsonville and Five Forks. Customers tend to mention Ashton by name, and the praise lands in the same places: a heads-up before mowing day, good communication from start to finish, and beds left neat when the job wraps. More than one reviewer has hired them for two different homes.

Marty Snaric has owned Curb Appeal since 2006, and he runs it on a short list of services and a calendar he won't overbook, so the work gets done on time. He credits that focus for the company's success. The list itself is mowing, weed eating, edging, and blowing, along with hedge trimming and fresh mulch or pine straw. Beyond the grass, the company power washes driveways and concrete and offers pooper scooping for households with dogs. Service runs month to month with no long-term contract, and the route covers Simpsonville, Mauldin, Fountain Inn, Greer, and Greenville. Customers tend to praise two things: that what was promised actually happens, and that Marty is easy to talk to about the yard.

Design by Lee provides landscaping and lawn care across Mauldin and the surrounding Upstate. Beyond routine yard maintenance, the business takes on larger outdoor projects and material supply, spanning both the design and the build side of a property's exterior.

Serving Greer and the immediate area, this is a locally run landscaping operation handling everyday yard and grounds work for area property owners. It stays a small, independent business rather than part of a regional chain.

Pine straw and mulch installation is the work Morales Landscaping is named for, and reviewers single out the competitive pricing and the debris-free, thickly applied beds as a reason they keep coming back. The work runs well past ground cover, though. The crew takes on retaining walls, sod and property grading, tree planting and removal, privacy hedges, and irrigation, covering both the groundwork that readies a yard and the design and installation that finishes it. This is a locally owned Upstate operation rather than a franchise, serving Greenville County and nearby towns including Easley, Greer, Simpsonville, and Travelers Rest. A pattern that runs through the reviews is competitive bidding: customers who gathered three quotes often mention Morales came in lowest, then backed it up with crews that showed up on schedule, communicated clearly, and cleaned up the site once the job was done.

Nat Greene Landscape is a local operation handling landscaping and lawn care for properties around Greenville. The work runs from routine yard upkeep to larger outdoor and grounds projects.

The design half of the name is the part worth noticing. This is landscaping that starts with a plan for how a yard is shaped and laid out, closer to a designed outdoor space than the mow-and-go routine most of us picture when we think about keeping a lawn. How far the design work goes on any given property, and what a finished project looks like, is the kind of detail the crew can speak to best.

GenX Security Solutions handles the security side of keeping a Piedmont home or business covered, from alarm systems to the monitoring that watches over them. It is a local option in the Upstate for anyone weighing a new system or a switch from a provider that stopped feeling like a good fit.

OnDuty SC got its start installing security systems in 2006, and that's still the core of the work: Alarm.com-powered setups with cameras, video doorbells, and smart locks, pre-wired in new construction or added wirelessly to existing homes. Homeowners can self-monitor from the app or add 24-hour professional monitoring, and battery and cellular backup keep things running when one of our summer storms knocks out the power or Wi-Fi. Word of mouth and new product lines have since carried them past alarms into home theaters, Control4 automation, central vacuums, outdoor kitchens, and solar-powered camera trailers for construction sites. They're locally owned, use Upstate-based installers rather than outsourced crews, and work across Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson. Some customers have them handle TVs and sound systems too, and reviews often single out techs who take their time explaining how everything works before leaving.

CPI Security runs its Greenville office on the Pelham Road corridor on the east side of town, the local base for a multi-location home security company. It covers residential security for the Greenville area and the surrounding Upstate.

On Point Security & Video works on everything from manufacturing plants to family homes. On the commercial side that means fire alarm systems with voice evacuation, card and biometric door access, and network cabling. Clients named on its site include Siemens, Prisma Health, and the City of Mauldin. For houses, the job starts with a consultant walking the property and planning the system with the homeowners. Cameras can link to the alarm over Wi-Fi or run as a separate hardwired setup, and add-ons reach past smart locks to flood sensors and medical alert pendants. The company is headquartered in Greenville, and its technicians cover the Upstate from Travelers Rest and Easley to Simpsonville, and out to Spartanburg and Anderson. In reviews, people single out the end of the install, when the tech stays until every device makes sense.