About
The commercial desk of Romco Builders
Romco Builders is a full-service general contractor headquartered in Fort Lauderdale and licensed to build in all 67 Florida counties. This site covers one lane of that business: tenant improvements and commercial renovations across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.
Send a floor plan, a lease exhibit, or a landlord work letter. We come back with a real number and the assumptions behind it.
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Florida counties Romco Builders is licensed to build in.
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Home counties on this desk: Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.
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Principals run the firm. There is no account-manager layer between you and them.
Self-perform
Dewatering, support of excavation and deep foundations we do with our own people.
Why the lanes are separate
Romco Builders serves three genuinely different buyers: commercial and institutional owners, ultra-luxury residential clients, and multifamily developers. They want different things, they measure success differently, and they ask completely different questions.
A tenant negotiating an improvement allowance on a Brickell floor is not solving the same problem as a developer pricing a ground-up multifamily podium. Putting them on the same page serves neither of them well, so we do not.
This desk answers to the first group. The people who price your job are the people who run it, and there is no account-manager layer in between.
Who runs the firm
The principals
Luke Corona
Principal
Drives project management, schedule and budget control, and long-term client relationships from preconstruction through turnover.
Terrence Kehayas
Principal
Leadership across institutional, commercial and ultra-luxury residential construction, with a record of delivering complex, high-profile projects.
Wes Romani
Principal
Twenty-year contractor with extensive experience building across South Florida, known for high-end finish and field execution.
Lisa Vanderbunt
Principal
Fifteen years managing corporate finances, and a licensed real estate professional overseeing budgets, controls and reporting across the business.
Attribution
What our leadership has delivered — and how we say it
Our leadership has delivered the Hospital for Special Surgery FDR expansion, multiple floor fit-outs and a chiller project for Emigrant Savings Bank, the ADL tenant renovation in New York, the United Nations “Arc of the Return”, Queens Plaza South, and deep foundations in a tidal environment at 1515 Surf Avenue. On the residential side the same leadership has delivered work at the Pierre Hotel, 15 Central Park West, One Madison Avenue and several Fifth and Park Avenue residences, plus the largest residential geothermal project in New York and work under the New York State Brownfield Cleanup Program.
That portfolio was largely delivered in New York, before and alongside Romco Builders. It is leadership experience. It is not a Romco Builders company project list, and we will not let it be read as one.
We are explicit about this because the distinction costs us nothing and tells you something useful: a contractor who is careless with attribution on a website will be careless with the numbers on a pay application.
Self-perform
What is unambiguously ours
Dewatering, support of excavation, deep foundations — including tidal environments — and site development, grading, utilities and earthwork, executed by our own crews rather than brokered out. Very few Florida general contractors can say that. On South Florida sites, where sand over limestone and a high water table turn a simple below-slab trench into an engineering problem, it is the difference between a problem we solve and a problem that leaves our schedule.
Reaching us
Based in Fort Lauderdale, FL, building across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Mon–Fri 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Weekends by appointment. Night and phased work scheduled around your operating hours.
Next step
Ready to price your project?
Send a floor plan, a lease exhibit, or a landlord work letter. We come back with a real number and the assumptions behind it.