CONTRACTOR SPOTLIGHT
Going All in
on ALL OUT
Kevin McGarvey & Marco Menna,
owners of All Out Parking Lots
Childhood friends become major
players in Philly’s sealcoating scene
By Aaron Garcia
K
evin McGarvey can’t help but recall
the first time he and his business
partner, Marco Menna, tried to do
business at Philadelphia’s famed
Wells Fargo Center, home to the city’s
professional basketball and hockey teams,
the 76ers and Flyers.
With huge sports venues come huge con-
certs, and McGarvey and Menna saw a
visit from Kenny Chesney as a chance to
pick up some cash. So, the pair printed
up $400 worth of shirts that read “Ken-
ny’s Girl” in the hopes of appealing to the
female concertgoers tailgating in the city’s
largest parking lot. This was back in 2007,
when the two were seniors at Cardinal
O’Hara High School in nearby Spring-
field, Pa.
Unfortunately, they learned they should
have appealed to whomever was in charge
of issuing permits for such things; the
two were interrupted within seconds by
the venue’s security, and their inventory
was confiscated before they could make a
dime.
Now, a dozen years later, the pair own
1.800.210.5923
ALL OUT Parking Lots, an asphalt main-
tenance and repair company with an ev-
er-expanding book of clients that includes
– you guessed it – the Wells Fargo Center.
“It’s nice to have a good business venture
at the stadiums, as opposed to the one
we had as seniors in high school,” he said
with a laugh.
More Than a Name
Menna and McGarvey first teamed up
in elementary school and stayed friends
throughout high school and college.
Along the way, they always seemed to
have “side hustles,” said Menna. They
landscaped when the weather was nice,
shoveled snow when it wasn’t and tried to
sell some t-shirts.
“We just always had that entrepreneur-
ial spirit in us,” explained McGarvey.
During the summer before their senior
years in college (Menna was at Temple
University, McGarvey at West Chester
University of Pennsylvania), they decided
to start sealcoating residential driveways.
They’d gotten the idea from a friend who
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was doing the same in another town close
by, and they made good money.
“From there we realized we should do
this once we graduated,” said Menna.
Added McGarvey: “We thought we could
compete and win (against the other seal-
coating companies). We decided to say,
‘Hey, let’s go into this all-out,’ and that’s
where we got the name.”
Putting Themselves ALL OUT There
In the eight years since the summer of
2011, McGarvey and Menna have steadi-
ly grown the company. Four years ago,
they began to expand into commercial
lots, which has brought new opportuni-
ties and bigger clients. The two now have
25 employees and eight trucks, headlined
by a pair of NEALCO Equipment, LLC
customized, hydraulic, piston-pumped
machines: a 1,000-gallon, flatbed-mount-
ed unit; and a 760-gal. trailer with a spray
bar.
A big part of their success can be at-
tributed to their marketing efforts, the
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August 2019