Gastonia is the county seat of Gaston County and the 13th-largest city in North Carolina, 80,411 people at the 2020 census. It sits west of Charlotte and anchors its own end of the metro rather than functioning as a commuter suburb.
A city with its own industrial history has a lot of older asphalt, and older asphalt changes what the right work actually is. Surfaces that have been down a long time are further through the oxidation cycle, so the honest sequence is often crack filling and an assessment of what has already broken up before anyone talks about sealer or fresh lines. Sealing over a base that has softened buys a season and costs the price of doing it properly later.
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.