Commercial Construction
Office, retail, hospitality, and multi-family construction and buildouts — delivered with minimal disruption and full documentation.
Commercial work, run by the book.
From multi-family repositioning to retail and office buildouts, our commercial practice is built on the disciplines institutional stakeholders expect: formal preconstruction, transparent reporting, competitive buyout, and a single accountable team from permit to certificate of occupancy.
We coordinate around your tenants, your lender, and your operating calendar — sequencing work to keep buildings earning and to deliver on the date we committed to.
Scope of Work
- Multi-family & mixed-use construction
- Retail, office & hospitality buildouts
- Tenant improvements & white-box
- Building envelope & common areas
- Permitting & municipal coordination
- ADA & life-safety compliance
- Phased occupied-building work
- Capital improvement programs
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Key Takeaways
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On an occupied building, tenants stay or leave on the strength of the phase plan rather than the finishes. Circulate it before the first wall opens.
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A commercial permit package moves at the speed of its slowest reviewing discipline. Give every plan-review comment an owner and a due date, the way you would any other scope item.
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On commercial work the documentation is part of the deliverable. A landlord, a tenant, a lender and a building department each need a different document at a different moment, and a project that cannot produce them on demand is late even when the construction is on time.
What Miami Owners Ask About Commercial Construction
Direct answers to the questions we field most often on commercial construction work in Miami-Dade and Broward.
Can a commercial building stay open during a renovation in Miami?
Yes. Unique Construction renovates occupied commercial buildings in Miami-Dade and Broward by phasing the work floor by floor or unit by unit, using temporary partitions and containment, and keeping a protected code-compliant path of egress available at all times. The constraint is sequencing rather than construction, so the phase plan is written before the first wall opens.
That plan is written for the tenants, not for the crew: which areas are affected in which order, where access and deliveries reroute while a corridor is closed, and which work happens outside operating hours. An owner should be able to forward it without translating it first.
Life safety is the part phasing loses first. Alarm and sprinkler coverage stays in service in the occupied areas while a ceiling is open in the one being worked, and each phase is cleaned and closed before the next one starts.
Who pulls the permits for a commercial buildout in Miami-Dade?
Your licensed general contractor does. Unique Construction Inc., a Florida Certified General Contractor, submits and manages commercial permits with the local building department, tracks plan review comments, and schedules inspections through to certificate of occupancy. More than one discipline reviews the same drawings, and a comment from any one of them holds the whole package until it is answered.
Pulling the permit also assigns responsibility. It is issued under the contractor’s license, so the building department deals with us rather than with the owner or the tenant, and the same package has to be closed out inspection by inspection before a certificate of occupancy is issued. A permit opened and never closed is the item that surfaces later, when the space changes hands or the next tenant applies to build.
What does a general contractor do differently on commercial work than on a house?
Commercial construction adds stakeholders and documentation that residential work does not have: landlord work letters, tenant leases with commencement dates, lender draw requirements, and accessibility and life-safety review. Unique Construction runs commercial projects with formal preconstruction and reporting built for those parties.
On a house, the owner is the only audience. On a commercial project, the same work has to satisfy a landlord, a tenant, a lender, an insurer, and a building department — each of which needs a different document at a different moment.
Have a Commercial Construction project?
Tell us the scope. We’ll come back with a real plan and a real number.