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Areas served · Miami-Dade County

Commercial Build-Outs in Miami Beach

About 45 minutes from our Fort Lauderdale base. Most of Miami Beach’s commercial core sits inside a locally designated historic district, so the Historic Preservation Board — not just the building department — decides what happens to a Lincoln Road or Washington Avenue frontage.

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.

Corridors and districts

Where the work is in Miami Beach

Lincoln RoadWashington AvenueOcean DriveAlton Road
  • Storefront and restaurant renovations inside the historic district
  • Hotel and hospitality fit-outs in 1930s–1950s buildings
  • Exterior packages taken through Historic Preservation Board review

What we are building in

The commercial stock in Miami Beach

Largely 1930s-to-1950s Art Deco and MiMo buildings, most of them inside a locally designated historic district, plus hotel and hospitality inventory of the same vintage carrying the same restrictions.

The authority having jurisdiction

Permitting and review here

The City of Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board, not only the building department, governs what happens to a protected frontage. Windows, signage, awnings, storefront systems and paint are all in scope. Assume the exterior approval sets the schedule and plan the interior around it.

What the ground and the structure do

Site and building conditions in Miami Beach

Old buildings, salt air, and flooding. The city has spent years raising streets and upgrading stormwater, which means finished floor elevations, entry thresholds and accessibility routes can be affected by work happening outside your lease line entirely — and that is worth checking before you sign.

Logistics

Access, loading and working hours

Loading is metered street frontage and nothing else. Deliveries need city permits, work windows are constrained by hotel guests and pedestrian volume, and high season narrows all of it further. Miami Beach is a market where the logistics plan is most of the schedule.

The case

Why owners in Miami 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.

FAQ

Questions from Miami Beach

Do you take commercial work in Miami Beach?
Yes. About 45 minutes from our Fort Lauderdale base. The City of Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board, not only the building department, governs what happens to a protected frontage. Windows, signage, awnings, storefront systems and paint are all in scope. Assume the exterior approval sets the schedule and plan the interior around it.
Can we change our storefront on Lincoln Road?
Possibly, and it is a preservation question before it is a construction one. Storefront systems, windows, awnings, signage and colour on a protected frontage go through Historic Preservation Board review. We start that path first because it, not the interior, sets the programme.
Does the street raising affect our space?
It can. Where the city has raised the adjacent street and stormwater system, entry thresholds, finished floor elevation and the accessible route into your space may all be affected — by work outside your lease line. It is worth confirming before you commit to a location.
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 Miami 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 Miami 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 Miami 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.