The Rockaway Inc Story

Rockaway Inc. has become one of Northeast Florida’s most recognizable landscaping companies. This is our story.

Since they were small children, the love of their nursery and gardening has been engrained in Greg Jr. and Brian Burghardt. They worked at the family Garden Center and Tree Farms growing up, and they went on to receive degrees from Rutgers University in Plant Science and Landscape Design, respectively. Greg and Brian have worked for two of the largest and most successful landscape companies in the United States, Davey Tree Company and ValleyCrest Landscape Companies, respectively. In 2014 Brickman and ValleyCrest merged to form BrightView. Coupling the Burghardt brothers’ lifelong family business experience and working with two of the nation’s largest and most respected horticultural organizations provides them a dynamic perspective and unique experience within the green industry.

In 1981, the original Rockaway Garden Center was founded in Rockaway, New Jersey. Then in 2009, Greg and Brian rebranded the company in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, as Rockaway Inc, providing Sustainable Landscape Solutions and expanding services to include landscaping and landscape maintenance.

In 2020, the garden center was closed, which coincided with our growth and success in the Northeast Florida landscape and maintenance sectors. Rockaway’s leadership has purposefully built a unique organizational structure with service offering expansion and complete customer satisfaction always being top of mind. Rockaway more closely mirrors industry titans in service capacity while keeping the core values consistent with that of a local mom-and-pop operation.

Rockaway landscape architects, designers, account managers, foremen, crew leaders, and support staff work closely with leading industry technologies and maintain high-quality communications standards to ensure client satisfaction. Employees are paid above industry standard rates, with benefit offerings that include health insurance, a 401K with company match, PTO, paid holidays, and vacation time. Members of the leadership team are seen leading daily operations wearing the same safety vests that field crew members wear and believe in training by doing, not by telling.

Rockaway Inc is at your service and can be seen around Northeast Florida providing for a variety of market segments, including:

• Healthcare organizations such as the world-renowned Mayo Clinic.
• Retail segments such as The Markets At Town Center and Publix retail centers, to name a few.
• HOA communities such as Ocean Edge, Pablo Bay, and Artisan Lakes, a 66-acre community of 196 homes in the heart of Nocatee.
• Residential custom design and builds throughout Northeast Florida.

From our office in Atlantic Beach and satellites throughout Northeast Florida, Rockaway Inc proudly serves clients in Jacksonville, St Augustine, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, Jacksonville Beach, Ponte Vedra, Nocatee, and Fernandina Beach.

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