Areas served · Miami-Dade County
Commercial Build-Outs in Miami
About 40 minutes from our Fort Lauderdale base. Miami runs on Miami 21, a form-based code, so what you may do with a Brickell or downtown ground-floor space is governed by its transect zone and frontage rules rather than by square footage.
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 Miami
- Office floor repositioning in 1970s and 1980s downtown towers
- Brickell suite fit-outs under base-building mechanical limits
- Ground-floor retail and restaurant work under Miami 21 frontage rules
What we are building in
The commercial stock in Miami
Brickell and downtown are high-rise office and mixed-use, with a large inventory built since 2010 and a stubborn core of 1970s and 1980s towers now being repositioned floor by floor as leases roll.
The authority having jurisdiction
Permitting and review here
The City of Miami zoning code is Miami 21, a form-based code. What a ground-floor space may become is decided by its transect zone and frontage requirements, not by area, and a change of use can reopen questions the previous tenant had already settled. That is the single most common Miami permitting surprise.
What the ground and the structure do
Site and building conditions in Miami
This is high-rise construction with everything that implies. Material moves by freight elevator on a booked schedule, core drilling requires scanning and landlord approval, and the base-building mechanical capacity — not the floor plan — decides what layout is genuinely buildable.
Logistics
Access, loading and working hours
Street-level staging in Brickell is close to impossible during business hours. Deliveries are booked into a dock window, material is broken down to fit a freight cab, and demolition happens at night. It is the most expensive market in the region to move material in, and any budget that ignores that is wrong.
The case
Why owners in Miami 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 Miami
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 Miami
- Do you take commercial work in Miami?
- Yes. About 40 minutes from our Fort Lauderdale base. The City of Miami zoning code is Miami 21, a form-based code. What a ground-floor space may become is decided by its transect zone and frontage requirements, not by area, and a change of use can reopen questions the previous tenant had already settled. That is the single most common Miami permitting surprise.
- What does Miami 21 change for a tenant?
- It means your space is governed by its transect zone and its frontage, not simply by its size or its previous use. Changing use — retail to restaurant, for example — can reopen parking, frontage and design questions. We check the zoning path before design, because it can decide whether the space works at all.
- Why is Brickell more expensive to build in than the suburbs?
- Logistics, not labor rates. Booked dock windows, shared freight elevators, material broken down to fit a cab, night-only demolition and protection of finished common areas on every trip. It is real money and we show it as its own line rather than folding it into the trade costs.
- 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 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 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.
Send a floor plan, a lease exhibit, or a landlord work letter. We come back with a real number and the assumptions behind it.