Concord is the county seat of Cabarrus County and, at 105,240 people in 2020, the second-largest city in the Charlotte metro after Charlotte itself. It is the biggest market on this list by a wide margin.
Scale changes the job rather than just the price. A city this size carries large-format retail, distribution and industrial sites where a single property can hold more linear footage of marking than several suburban lots combined, and those are the sites where thermoplastic starts to make sense at the entrances and main drive lanes instead of paint that needs redoing every year or two. Being in Cabarrus rather than Mecklenburg County also matters for anything tied to fire access or local requirements, so it is worth confirming what applies to the specific property rather than assuming Charlotte rules carry over.
Whatever the lot needs, the order of work is the same one that applies everywhere: cracks filled before sealer goes down, and striping last, once the surface has cured. Tell us the property and roughly how many stalls and you will get a number back, most re-stripes without anyone coming out.