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Commercial Build-Outs in West Palm Beach
About 45 minutes from our Fort Lauderdale base. The financial firms that opened West Palm Beach offices after 2020 took space around Rosemary Square and Clematis Street, and the fit-out standard they brought with them is a New York standard on a Florida schedule.
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 West Palm Beach
- High-specification corporate office fit-outs downtown
- Clematis Street restaurant and storefront renovations
- Small commercial renovations in the Northwood district
What we are building in
The commercial stock in West Palm Beach
A downtown office core that grew sharply after 2020 as financial and investment firms opened Florida offices, layered over older Clematis Street storefronts and a Northwood district of small pre-war commercial buildings.
The authority having jurisdiction
Permitting and review here
The City of West Palm Beach, with downtown work subject to the downtown master plan and, in the historic districts, additional review. The city has actively encouraged office delivery and conversion, which helps the process, but the review is still a real duration.
What the ground and the structure do
Site and building conditions in West Palm Beach
The tenants who arrived here brought New York fit-out standards with them: heavier millwork, better acoustic separation, more AV infrastructure, more mechanical capacity. Pricing this market against a generic Florida office benchmark will be wrong by a wide margin — and it will be wrong low.
Logistics
Access, loading and working hours
Downtown towers have docks and scheduled freight elevators. Clematis Street is street-loaded with restaurant and nightlife activity running late, which pushes construction traffic firmly into the morning.
The case
Why owners in West Palm 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.
Services
What we build in West Palm Beach
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 West Palm Beach
- Do you take commercial work in West Palm Beach?
- Yes. About 45 minutes from our Fort Lauderdale base. The City of West Palm Beach, with downtown work subject to the downtown master plan and, in the historic districts, additional review. The city has actively encouraged office delivery and conversion, which helps the process, but the review is still a real duration.
- Why is West Palm Beach office work priced above the regional average?
- Because the specification is above the regional average. The firms that relocated here are building to the standard they had in New York — acoustics, millwork, AV and mechanical capacity all step up. We benchmark against what this submarket is actually buying, not a state-wide average.
- Our leadership has built to this standard before — where?
- Our leadership has delivered corporate fit-outs in Manhattan, including multiple floors and a chiller project for Emigrant Savings Bank and a tenant renovation for the ADL. That is leadership experience rather than a Romco Builders project list, and we will always draw that line clearly.
- 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 West Palm 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 West Palm 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.
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Next step
Building in West Palm 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.