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Commercial Build-Outs in Plantation
About 15 minutes from our Fort Lauderdale base. Plantation Midtown replaced the old Fashion Mall with Plantation Walk, and the office inventory along Broward Boulevard and Peters Road is 1980s stock now being cut down into suites for tenants a fraction of the size it was designed for.
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 Plantation
- Sub-dividing 1980s office floors into multi-tenant suites
- Retail and restaurant build-outs inside the Midtown overlay
- Flex and light industrial fit-outs along Peters Road
What we are building in
The commercial stock in Plantation
Plantation Midtown is the redevelopment district built where the Fashion Mall stood, mixing new retail and office with 1980s towers that never left. Peters Road carries the flex and light industrial inventory. University Drive is neighborhood retail and medical office.
The authority having jurisdiction
Permitting and review here
The City of Plantation runs its own building department, and Midtown carries a separate overlay with its own design expectations. Work inside that overlay is measured against the district plan as well as the building code, which is a review step and a calendar, not a fee.
What the ground and the structure do
Site and building conditions in Plantation
Plantation sits well inland, so there is no tidal or salt problem to engineer around. The recurring interior problem is 1980s office floors whose original ductwork and panelboards were sized for one tenant per floor and now have to serve six — the demising is easy, the mechanical and electrical redistribution is not.
Logistics
Access, loading and working hours
Nearly everything is surface-parked and drive-up, which makes deliveries simple and daytime work possible in most buildings. That is a genuine cost advantage over a downtown tower and it shows up in the number.
The case
Why owners in Plantation 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 Plantation
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 Plantation
- Do you take commercial work in Plantation?
- Yes. About 15 minutes from our Fort Lauderdale base. The City of Plantation runs its own building department, and Midtown carries a separate overlay with its own design expectations. Work inside that overlay is measured against the district plan as well as the building code, which is a review step and a calendar, not a fee.
- Is Plantation cheaper to build in than downtown Fort Lauderdale?
- On logistics, usually yes. Surface parking, drive-up access and daytime working hours remove the loading dock scheduling, freight elevator time and night premium that a downtown tower forces. The construction scope itself costs what it costs.
- What does the Midtown overlay actually affect?
- It affects how the project is reviewed, not just what you pay in fees. Work inside the district is assessed against the district plan, so exterior changes, signage and frontage carry an approval step with its own schedule. We build that duration into the program rather than discovering it.
- 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 Plantation 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 Plantation 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 Plantation.
Send a floor plan, a lease exhibit, or a landlord work letter. We come back with a real number and the assumptions behind it.