Areas served · Broward County
Commercial Build-Outs in Hollywood
About 20 minutes from our Fort Lauderdale base. Downtown Hollywood’s storefronts around Young Circle and along Hollywood Boulevard are mostly pre-1960 masonry, so a restaurant or retail build-out here begins with what the existing structure and the existing service will actually carry.
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 Hollywood
- Restaurant build-outs in pre-1960 downtown masonry buildings
- Storefront and retail renovations inside the CRA design review
- Hospitality renovations on the beach side, specified for salt exposure
What we are building in
The commercial stock in Hollywood
Downtown Hollywood is small-bay storefront retail, most of it pre-1960 masonry with wood or lightweight roof structures. The beach side adds hotel and hospitality inventory of similar vintage, with coastal exposure rules on top.
The authority having jurisdiction
Permitting and review here
The City of Hollywood, with design review through the CRA downtown. Because the base building stock is so old, meaningful work here trips the Existing Building Code alteration thresholds faster than owners expect — which can pull accessibility, energy and life-safety upgrades into areas you were not touching.
What the ground and the structure do
Site and building conditions in Hollywood
The recurring problem is structural. Pre-1960 roofs were not designed to carry a modern kitchen exhaust fan or a packaged rooftop HVAC unit without reinforcement. On a Hollywood restaurant job we price the structural steel before we price the finishes, because that is the order in which it gets decided.
Logistics
Access, loading and working hours
Hollywood Boulevard has metered street loading and pedestrian traffic all day, so demolition and heavy deliveries run early morning. Beach-side work contends with seasonal congestion and hotel guests who are not on a construction schedule.
The case
Why owners in Hollywood 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 Hollywood
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 Hollywood
- Do you take commercial work in Hollywood?
- Yes. About 20 minutes from our Fort Lauderdale base. The City of Hollywood, with design review through the CRA downtown. Because the base building stock is so old, meaningful work here trips the Existing Building Code alteration thresholds faster than owners expect — which can pull accessibility, energy and life-safety upgrades into areas you were not touching.
- Why does a small Hollywood project trigger code upgrades elsewhere in the building?
- The Florida Building Code, Existing Building sets alteration levels. In a pre-1960 building, a modest scope can cross a threshold that requires accessibility, energy or life-safety work in areas outside your scope. We establish which level applies during preconstruction so it is in the budget rather than in a change order.
- Can these old roofs carry restaurant equipment?
- Sometimes, and not without checking. A wood or lightweight roof from the 1950s was never designed for a Type I hood fan and a make-up air unit. We get a structural assessment before the kitchen is priced, because reinforcement is a real number and it is better known early.
- 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 Hollywood 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 Hollywood 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 Hollywood.
Send a floor plan, a lease exhibit, or a landlord work letter. We come back with a real number and the assumptions behind it.