Areas served · Palm Beach County
Commercial Build-Outs in Boca Raton
About 30 minutes from our Fort Lauderdale base. Boca Raton Innovation Campus is the former IBM plant where the original IBM PC was developed, and re-cutting those 1970s research floorplates is a completely different job from a Town Center retail suite five minutes away.
Send a floor plan, a lease exhibit, or a landlord work letter. We come back with a real number and the assumptions behind it.
Licensed
General contractor, licensed in the state of Florida
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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.
Corridors and districts
Where the work is in Boca Raton
- Re-cutting deep 1970s research floorplates at the Innovation Campus
- Corporate office fit-outs along Yamato and Glades Road
- Retail and restaurant build-outs at Mizner Park and Town Center
What we are building in
The commercial stock in Boca Raton
Two very different inventories. The Innovation Campus is the former IBM plant where the original IBM PC was developed — vast 1970s research floorplates now being re-cut for modern tenants. Mizner Park and Town Center are upscale retail and restaurant on entirely different terms.
The authority having jurisdiction
Permitting and review here
The City of Boca Raton, with downtown development governed by its own design standards and review. Boca has long applied stricter design and signage control than its neighbors, so treating a facade change here as routine is a scheduling mistake rather than a cost one.
What the ground and the structure do
Site and building conditions in Boca Raton
The Innovation Campus floorplates are unusually deep, with structural bays and mechanical infrastructure designed for a use that no longer exists. Re-cutting them is a daylighting and mechanical distribution problem as much as a partition problem, and the answer is decided at layout, not at finishes.
Logistics
Access, loading and working hours
The corporate corridor along Yamato and Glades is drive-up with genuine laydown space. Mizner Park and Town Center operate on center rules with restricted hours and finished common areas that have to be protected on every trip.
The case
Why owners in Boca Raton call us
We build in buildings that are still open
Most commercial work here is not an empty shell. It is a floor above a working tenant, a suite next to a trading desk, or a dining room that has to serve on Friday. We phase, we work the hours the landlord allows, and we protect the path from the dock to your door.
A budget before you sign the lease
Send us the space and the landlord work letter before the LOI is final. We will price the build-out and name the assumptions, so you negotiate the tenant improvement allowance knowing the real number instead of finding it after you are committed.
Self-perform site engineering
Dewatering, support of excavation and deep foundations — including tidal sites — are done by our own crews, not brokered out. Very few Florida general contractors can say that. When a build-out turns into a structural or below-grade problem, it does not become somebody else’s schedule.
An institutional record behind the field team
Our leadership has delivered Hospital for Special Surgery’s FDR expansion, Emigrant Savings Bank fit-outs, the ADL tenant renovation in New York, and deep foundations at 1515 Surf Avenue. That is leadership experience, not a Romco Builders project list — and we will always say which is which.
Services
What we build in Boca Raton
Tenant Improvements
You have signed, or are about to sign, a lease on space that does not yet fit how your business works. Between you and occupancy sit a landlord work letter, a design team, a building department, and a landlord’s rules about when you are allowed to make noise.
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Commercial Renovations
The building works. It is simply the wrong shape for what you now do in it, or it has aged past what your tenants will accept. Renovating a building that is still operating is a different discipline from building an empty one, and it is where most schedules come apart.
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Office Build-Outs
An office build-out is judged on two things nobody sees in the drawings: whether the mechanical system can actually condition the layout your architect drew, and whether it is finished in time for the move you have already scheduled.
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Medical & Dental Build-Outs
A clinical space is not an office with a sink. It is a permit with a second regulator attached, a mechanical design driven by air-change requirements, and a set of inspections that a general commercial contractor does not routinely see.
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Restaurant Build-Outs
A restaurant build-out is a mechanical and utility project wearing a finishes project’s clothes. The dining room is the part everyone discusses and the smallest part of the risk. The hood, the make-up air, the grease waste and the incoming service are what decide whether you open.
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Retail & Showroom Build-Outs
Retail construction answers to two clients at once. Yours, and the landlord’s design criteria manual — a document that governs your storefront, your signage, your lighting levels and often the contractor you are allowed to use for anything that touches the base building.
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Preconstruction Services
Every expensive surprise on a commercial project was knowable earlier. Preconstruction is the deliberate act of going looking for those surprises while the only cost of finding one is a redrawn detail.
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Construction Management
Some owners do not need a lump-sum contractor. They need a professional team on their side of the table — running the design consultants and the trades, controlling cost and schedule, and reporting to them in numbers they can actually audit.
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FAQ
Questions from Boca Raton
- Do you take commercial work in Boca Raton?
- Yes. About 30 minutes from our Fort Lauderdale base. The City of Boca Raton, with downtown development governed by its own design standards and review. Boca has long applied stricter design and signage control than its neighbors, so treating a facade change here as routine is a scheduling mistake rather than a cost one.
- What makes the Innovation Campus floorplates hard to fit out?
- Depth and legacy infrastructure. They were designed as research and manufacturing space, so the distance from the core to daylight and the existing mechanical distribution both fight a conventional office layout. That gets resolved at test-fit stage, well before finishes are discussed.
- Is Boca stricter on exteriors than the rest of Palm Beach County?
- In our experience yes, particularly downtown, where design standards and signage control are applied more tightly than in neighboring cities. We treat the exterior package as its own approval path with its own duration rather than as part of the building permit.
- Do you charge to look at a space and give us a number?
- No. A walk-through and an order-of-magnitude budget on a Boca Raton space you are considering costs you nothing — that conversation should not have an invoice attached. A full preconstruction engagement, with a line-item budget, a constructability log and a permitting map, is a priced scope of work, and we credit the fee against the construction contract if you build with us.
- Can you work around the hours our business actually operates?
- Yes, and in Boca Raton it is usually the only way the job gets done. Phased construction, off-hours demolition, temporary partitions and a maintained path of egress are normal parts of our scope. Off-hours premiums are shown as their own line so you can see exactly what the phasing costs.
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Next step
Building in Boca Raton.
Send a floor plan, a lease exhibit, or a landlord work letter. We come back with a real number and the assumptions behind it.