Areas served · Broward County
Commercial Build-Outs in Fort Lauderdale
We are based here. Our home market. Downtown’s Regional Activity Center zoning put office towers, hotels and apartments in the same blocks along Andrews Avenue, so a suite build-out here usually shares a loading dock and a freight elevator with people who live upstairs.
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 Fort Lauderdale
- Office suite fit-outs in the downtown Regional Activity Center towers
- Las Olas storefront and restaurant renovations in pre-war masonry
- Re-cutting 1980s Cypress Creek office floors for smaller tenants
What we are building in
The commercial stock in Fort Lauderdale
Three inventories in one city. Downtown is office towers from the 1980s onward plus a newer wave of mixed-use residential. Las Olas is small-bay pre-war and mid-century storefront. The Cypress Creek corridor north of Commercial Boulevard is 1970s and 1980s suburban office park stock now being re-cut into smaller suites.
The authority having jurisdiction
Permitting and review here
The City of Fort Lauderdale is the authority having jurisdiction for most of the city; Broward County covers the unincorporated pockets. Downtown work sits inside the Regional Activity Center, where mixed-use zoning means your neighbors upstairs are residents. That fact shapes the hours you are permitted to make noise more than it shapes the permit itself.
What the ground and the structure do
Site and building conditions in Fort Lauderdale
The water table downtown is high and the ground is sand over limestone. Anything below the slab — a grease line, a new floor sink, an elevator pit — reaches groundwater sooner than owners expect. This is exactly the ground our self-perform dewatering and support-of-excavation crews were built for.
Logistics
Access, loading and working hours
Downtown loading is dock-scheduled and tight. Las Olas has almost no off-street loading at all, so material arrives early morning off the street with the city’s permission. We are based here, which is why a site visit at short notice does not become a line item.
The case
Why owners in Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale
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 Fort Lauderdale
- Do you take commercial work in Fort Lauderdale?
- Yes. We are based here. The City of Fort Lauderdale is the authority having jurisdiction for most of the city; Broward County covers the unincorporated pockets. Downtown work sits inside the Regional Activity Center, where mixed-use zoning means your neighbors upstairs are residents. That fact shapes the hours you are permitted to make noise more than it shapes the permit itself.
- Why does so much downtown Fort Lauderdale work happen at night?
- Because the Regional Activity Center put residences directly above and beside commercial space. Demolition, core drilling and anything else that carries through the structure gets pushed outside residents’ quiet hours by the building’s rules, not by ours. We price that premium as its own line so you can see it.
- What surprises owners most about below-slab work here?
- Groundwater. Downtown Fort Lauderdale sits on sand over limestone with a high water table, so cutting a trench for grease waste or a new floor sink can turn into a dewatering job. We self-perform dewatering, so that discovery does not send your schedule out to another contractor.
- 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 Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale.
Send a floor plan, a lease exhibit, or a landlord work letter. We come back with a real number and the assumptions behind it.