Areas served · Palm Beach County
Commercial Build-Outs in Delray Beach
About 35 minutes from our Fort Lauderdale base. Atlantic Avenue’s restaurant density is effectively the Delray Beach commercial market, and a kitchen build-out inside the Old School Square historic district has to satisfy a preservation review as well as a health inspection.
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 Delray Beach
- Restaurant and bar build-outs on Atlantic Avenue
- Historic district renovations around Old School Square
- Office and light industrial fit-outs on the Congress Avenue belt
What we are building in
The commercial stock in Delray Beach
Atlantic Avenue is the market: two-story pre-war and mid-century commercial buildings running at very high restaurant and bar density, with Pineapple Grove behind it and a light industrial and office belt out on Congress Avenue.
The authority having jurisdiction
Permitting and review here
The City of Delray Beach, plus historic preservation review inside the Old School Square district. A restaurant here typically needs the building department, the fire marshal, the health authority and a preservation review — and the outdoor dining and sign package can carry a path of its own again.
What the ground and the structure do
Site and building conditions in Delray Beach
Old, small, tightly packed buildings with shared walls and shared alleys. Getting a kitchen exhaust duct to the roof, finding somewhere legal for a grease interceptor, and getting adequate electrical service into the space are the three questions that decide whether an Atlantic Avenue restaurant is buildable at the price being discussed.
Logistics
Access, loading and working hours
Alley loading where an alley exists and metered street loading where one does not. Atlantic Avenue is busy from lunch onward all year and heavily so in season, so demolition and heavy deliveries are strictly a morning activity.
The case
Why owners in Delray Beach 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 Delray Beach
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 Delray Beach
- Do you take commercial work in Delray Beach?
- Yes. About 35 minutes from our Fort Lauderdale base. The City of Delray Beach, plus historic preservation review inside the Old School Square district. A restaurant here typically needs the building department, the fire marshal, the health authority and a preservation review — and the outdoor dining and sign package can carry a path of its own again.
- What decides whether an Atlantic Avenue restaurant space is viable?
- Three things, and all of them are answerable in week one: whether the kitchen exhaust can legally reach the roof, whether there is a workable location for a grease interceptor, and whether the incoming electrical service will carry your equipment schedule. If any answer is bad, that is a reason not to take the space.
- How many approvals does a Delray restaurant need?
- Typically the building department, the fire marshal, the health authority, and — inside the Old School Square district — preservation review. Outdoor dining and signage often add another. We map all of them before design finishes, because they do not run in a single queue.
- 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 Delray Beach 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 Delray Beach 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.
Nearby markets we also build in
Next step
Building in Delray 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.