Arlington Park, FL moving company
Arlington Park is a 1950s and 1960s block neighborhood wrapped around the park and the aquatic complex, a few minutes from Sarasota Memorial. The houses are single story, the lots are small, and the oak canopy over the streets is old enough to matter when a 26 foot truck comes down them.
Arlington Park is a mid century neighborhood in Sarasota, FL built mainly of single story concrete block homes on small lots, immediately south of the Sarasota Memorial Hospital campus.
Low branches and short driveways
Check the approach before moving day. Several Arlington Park streets have oak limbs hanging well below the height of a box truck, and a driveway built for a 1958 sedan does not hold a modern moving truck.
We look at the street during the quote for exactly this reason. If the truck has to park on the road, that adds carry distance to every single item, and it is far better priced in advance than discovered at 8am.
Block construction, narrow interiors
The houses are solid and the hallways are not generous. Interior doors in this era of Sarasota construction are often narrower than what furniture bought in the last decade expects.
We disassemble more here than in a newer house. Bed frames, table legs, sectional connections, and sometimes the door off its hinges. It costs a few minutes and it saves the gouged jamb nobody notices until the final walkthrough.
Renovation moves
A lot of Arlington Park moves are not moves at all. They are a house being renovated, where everything has to leave, sit somewhere, and come back.
Tell us when that is the plan. A shipment going into storage and coming back into the same house gets packed and stacked differently than one going into a new home, and knowing that up front saves handling it twice.
- Contents going into storage need a breathable wrap, not sealed plastic
- Label by the room it will return to, not the room it left
- Tell us what has to come back first so it loads last
Hospital shift workers and timing
A good share of this neighborhood works at Sarasota Memorial, which means move windows sometimes have to sit around a shift rather than a normal working day.
Early starts are easier for us than late ones, and we would rather build the day around your schedule than have you burn a shift for it. Tell us the constraint when you book.
Neighborhoods and communities we cover in Arlington Park
- Arlington Park proper
- Alta Vista
- Near Sarasota Memorial
- Tuttle Avenue corridor
- Bahia Vista corridor
- Shade Avenue
If your community is not listed, it is almost certainly still in range. Call and ask.
What we do in Arlington Park
Everything we do county wide, we do here. These are the ones Arlington Park customers book most often.
Moving in Arlington Park: common questions
Can a moving truck get down my Arlington Park street?
Usually yes, but the oak canopy is the thing to check rather than the street width. Several blocks here have limbs hanging below box truck height. We look at the approach during the quote so a low branch is not found by the truck.
Will my furniture fit through an Arlington Park house?
Measure the narrowest interior doorway before moving day. Mid century block construction in Sarasota often used narrower interior doors than newer homes, so we disassemble bed frames, table legs and sectionals when the geometry needs it, and take doors off hinges when that is what it takes.
Do you handle renovation moves where everything comes back?
Yes, and it is common here. Say so before we load, because a shipment that is coming back into the same house is packed, labelled and stacked differently than one going to a new address.
How close is Arlington Park to your base?
We are in Lakewood Ranch, roughly twenty five minutes north depending on the hour. Arlington Park is inside our normal local service area and is billed hourly like any other Sarasota move.