Ground-up construction, residential and commercial, built in the open — you see every stage, on a schedule you can hold us to.
This is the same home at every phase of construction — the sequence every Black Arrow client gets photographed and posted to their project feed as it happens.
Raw ground, staked and surveyed.
Drag to spin the model. Step through the structure the way we build it — pad, slab, framing, roof, finish. Every home we build starts as exactly this sequence of decisions.
The house is yours, not a showcase for us. When you tell us how you actually live — where the light matters, which room you'll really use — that goes into the plan and it stays in the plan. If we think something won't work, we say so early, while changing it is still free.
Almost nobody builds a house twice. What you have in your head on day one is the whole point of the exercise, and our job is to get that out of your head and onto the lot without it quietly eroding through 300 small decisions.
Anything looks good at walkthrough. The difference shows up later — in framing that stayed square, flashing that never leaked, doors that still latch. We build the parts nobody photographs to the same standard as the ones they do.
Limestone and white stucco, black steel windows, white-oak timber. The detailing is where a custom home either earns its price or doesn't.
We are a new-construction builder first. If it starts with dirt, it's squarely what we do.
Ground-up homes on your lot, built to your plans or ours.
Architect, engineer and builder working off one budget instead of three.
Before you buy the land, know what it costs to build on it.
The two stages that decide whether everything after them goes smoothly.
Structural work on a home you already own and intend to keep.
We hold a commercial licence as well as residential — ground-up and tenant work.
The part most builders do badly and nobody sees until it's late.
Every jurisdiction has its own submittal quirks, design review and terrain. Building where we already know the inspectors is worth real months on a schedule.
Hillside and infill lots, HOA design review, and desert-sensitive setbacks. North Scottsdale grading and native-plant requirements are their own discipline.
Steep terrain, hillside ordinance and protected view corridors. Sites here are won or lost on how the pad is cut before anything gets framed.
Established neighbourhoods, flat lots, infill and teardown-rebuilds. Tight sites with neighbours on both sides need a different site plan than open acreage.
Acreage parcels and building on land you already own. Septic, well and utility runs are usually the first real question, well before house plans.
No, and it's often better if you don't. We look at land before you buy it, because what a lot costs to build on can differ by six figures between two parcels that list for the same price. Grading, utility runs, septic feasibility and setbacks all change the number.
Yes — licensed, bonded and insured. Black Arrow Builders holds Arizona ROC licence #341201, covering both residential and commercial work. We'll provide current documentation on request before contract.
Typically eighteen months or less from breaking ground, and often closer to twelve. The variables that move that number most are how custom the design is, how long permitting takes in your jurisdiction, and how quickly selections get made — the last one is the one clients control.
Often, yes. The less custom the home, the more of it we can price with confidence up front, and fixed-price contracts are available on those builds. Highly custom and one-off work carries more unknowns, and we'd rather be straight about that than quote a fixed number we'd have to renegotiate later.
We do. Our licence covers commercial, and we take on shell buildings, offices, retail, tenant improvements and commercial site work alongside our custom residential builds.
Yes — that's a common starting point in Queen Creek and the outer East Valley. We'll evaluate access, utilities, septic or sewer availability, soil and setbacks, then tell you what site work will cost before you commit to a house plan.
Either. We build from plans you bring us, and we also run design-build, where the architect, engineer and builder work off one budget instead of three. Design-build usually avoids the expensive round of redrawing that happens when a finished plan comes back over budget.
Changes get priced and approved in writing before the work happens, not discovered on a final invoice. That is the single biggest source of disputes in custom building, and it's avoidable with paperwork discipline.
Yes. Every project gets photographed at each construction stage — the same nine stages shown on this page — along with a published schedule you can hold us to.
Scottsdale, Fountain Hills, Gilbert and Queen Creek, and surrounding Arizona communities. If your lot sits just outside those, call and ask — it depends on the project.
Send the basics and we'll come back with a realistic cost range and a build window — not a brochure.
Building in Scottsdale, Fountain Hills, Gilbert and Queen Creek.