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Retail and 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.
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.
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Dewatering, support of excavation and deep foundations we do with our own people.
Why this matters
What it costs to do nothing
The delays that hurt retail are almost never framing. They are a storefront submittal rejected by the landlord’s design reviewer, a sign permit caught in a municipal design board, or a mall turnover date that moves and takes your fixture install and merchandising window with it. Miss a seasonal opening in a South Florida centre and you have lost the quarter the location was leased for.
Why clients choose us for retail & showroom build-outs
- We submit to the landlord’s design criteria early and treat their reviewer as a real approval step with a real duration in the schedule.
- Signage is priced and permitted as its own path. Municipal sign review — and in several South Florida cities a separate design or appearance board — routinely outlasts the interior work.
- We coordinate with the fixture vendor and the visual merchandising team so the space is genuinely ready on the day they arrive, with power and lighting live.
- We work inside mall operating rules: barricade standards, dock scheduling, quiet hours, and the close-out package the centre needs before it lets you trade.
The practical answer
Scope typically covers demising walls, storefront and entry systems, ceiling and lighting to the landlord’s criteria, HVAC distribution, power for fixtures and point of sale, low-voltage for network and security, back-of-house and stockroom, restrooms, flooring and wall finishes, and the exterior sign package. Cost concentrates in the storefront, the lighting, and the millwork. The schedule concentrates in approvals. We plan the job around the approval calendar, then build to it.
FAQ
Common questions
- Do we have to use the landlord’s contractor?
- Sometimes, for specific scopes. Many centres require their own contractor for roof penetrations, fire alarm tie-ins and sprinkler modifications, to protect their warranties and their monitored systems. The rest is normally open. We read your criteria manual and tell you exactly which lines are carved out.
- How long does sign approval take?
- It varies widely by municipality, and it is the single most common cause of a retail opening without its sign up. Some South Florida cities route commercial signage through an appearance or design board that meets on a fixed monthly calendar. We start the sign path at the same time as the interior permit, not after.
- Can you build multiple locations for us?
- Yes. Romco Builders is licensed across all 67 Florida counties, so a rollout does not need a different general contractor in each market. What changes between locations is the jurisdiction and the landlord criteria, and we track those per site.
Serving Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach
Next step
Ready to price your project?
Send a floor plan, a lease exhibit, or a landlord work letter. We come back with a real number and the assumptions behind it.