Chapter 01 — The two tracks
Retail runs on two approvals.
The building department, and the landlord.
Retail space falls under Mercantile Group M occupancy in the Florida Building Code, and almost every project in the category is second-generation space — a vanilla shell or a previous tenant’s built-out store — rather than ground-up construction. That distinction changes both the code path and the schedule, because existing restrooms, HVAC and storefront glazing may be reusable or may have to come out to bare shell.
Whether it is a strip-centre unit, a boutique in a retail corridor or an anchor space in a mall, the job runs on two tracks that have to close together: the building department’s permit, and the landlord’s own Tenant Design Criteria manual governing storefront depth, signage, flooring transitions at the lease line and allocated HVAC tonnage. Miss either and the store does not open on schedule, regardless of which one was actually finished first.
Retail also carries more public-facing scrutiny per square foot than most commercial categories. A small footprint holding customers, fitting rooms, a checkout counter and a public entrance means accessibility and egress get examined closely relative to the size of the space.
Mercantile occupancy
Retail sits in Group M in the Florida Building Code, which sets the egress, occupant load and accessibility framework the fit-out has to satisfy.
Approvals, one date
The county permit and the landlord’s design-criteria review are separate processes on separate calendars. Both have to close before you open.
Licensed general contractor
Licensed, bonded and insured, with one company coordinating both approval tracks.
Chapter 02 — What a retail build-out covers
Landlord shell to trading floor.
Design, permits, systems, fit-out
Second generation or vanilla shell
A second-generation space inherits the previous tenant’s restrooms, HVAC distribution and often the storefront glazing, which can cut real cost and schedule if that infrastructure suits the new use and the code has not moved since. A vanilla shell is bare concrete and stubbed utilities — everything built from scratch.
What you inherit decides the programme more than what you design.
Landlord criteria and county permit
The Tenant Design Criteria manual dictates storefront depth, sign band placement and letter height, flooring transition at the lease line and allocated HVAC tonnage. None of it is optional even where the permit would allow more latitude. Both submissions run on the same timeline so neither becomes the bottleneck.
The landlord’s manual is not advisory.
Verify utilities before design closes
Electrical service size and HVAC tonnage are checked against the tenant’s actual equipment load before design is finalised. On a vanilla shell that is a genuine unknown; on second-generation space the previous tenant’s load may bear no relation to yours.
Capacity is a design input, not a commissioning surprise.
Accessibility, egress and the entrance
Threshold heights, door clearances, vestibule manoeuvring space, aisle widths, a lowered accessible section at the checkout counter, and at least one fitting room meeting clear-floor and door-swing requirements. Egress hardware requirements scale with occupant load.
A small store is scrutinised more per square foot, not less.
Scene 04 has no photograph attached, since accessibility and egress requirements are a checklist rather than something a single frame can show.
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Chapter 03 — Shell to opening
How a build-out progresses.
Licensed stock reference sequence
Licensed stock reference images
These are licensed stock reference photographs, not photographs of Elbaz Construction projects — the client library holds no commercial photography, and we would rather say so than present a residential room as a store. The sequence they describe is real. Use the arrows, the ticks or the arrow keys.
01 · Coordinating overhead
The suspended grid carries diffusers, sprinkler heads and light housings in one plane, with duct and containment in the void above. In a small retail footprint the ceiling is where mechanical, electrical, fire protection and lighting all compete for the same space, and it is resolved on paper before anyone lifts a tile.
02 · Fitting out
Walls finished to a paint-ready standard before fixtures go in. Millwork, counters and lighting are usually made off site to the surveyed dimensions of the unit, which fixes the sequence weeks ahead of this stage.
03 · Shell, finished
A finished shell with natural light and a clean floor plate, ready for the tenant’s own layout. Fitting rooms, counters and fixtures (each with their own clear-floor and door-swing requirements) come after this point.
04 · Finish work
Interior walls finished throughout the shell ahead of the stockroom, receiving and back-of-house build-out, which gets the least design attention but drives real functional decisions — particularly receiving door width for pallets and where security and POS cabling terminates.
05 · Mid-renovation
Materials still staged on site mid-build-out. The completed shell — floor, walls, lighting, counter and glazed shopfront — follows after this stage, with the tenant’s fit and fixture package running to the same opening date.
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Chapter 04 — Reading the sequence
What these images describe.
Licensed stock, and labelled as such
Why these are stock photographs
Elbaz Construction does commercial work, but the photography library these pages are built from contains no commercial or retail project photography. The honest options were to show residential rooms and imply they were stores, to use licensed stock photography without saying so, or to use licensed stock photography and label it plainly as reference imagery rather than our own project photos. This page takes the third.
The ceiling is the hard part
In a small retail unit the ceiling void carries ductwork, sprinklers, lighting, security and data in a shallow zone above a grid that also has to look deliberate. Coordination here separates a build-out that finishes on time from one that does not.
The entrance carries the scrutiny
The public entrance concentrates threshold height, door clearance, manoeuvring space and glazing requirements into one detail. It is the first thing an inspector looks at and the first thing a customer uses.
Millwork sets the programme
Display units and counters are manufactured off site to surveyed dimensions. Once the survey is taken the unit cannot change, which fixes the fit-out sequence weeks before installation.
Back of house is functional, not decorative
Receiving door width, racking layout and where security and point-of-sale cabling terminates decide whether the store works day to day. It is the area most often under-designed.
What is not claimed
No image on this page is a photograph of an Elbaz Construction project. Nothing is presented as a completed job, no client or location is named, and no cost or timeline is attached to any image.
Every build-out starts with the shell survey and the lease terms.
Chapter 05 — Systems and elements
What a trading space is built from.
And what each one asks of you later
Illustrative diagrams
Storefront glazing and entrance
Glazing at pedestrian-height locations must satisfy safety-glazing requirements as well as the landlord’s appearance criteria. Security grilles, where used, form part of the same approval conversation.
UpkeepTrack and seal maintenance; salt air reaches inland retail corridors too.
Electrical service and distribution
Service size verified against the tenant’s actual equipment load, then distribution, lighting circuits, data and point-of-sale power designed around the fixture plan rather than the empty shell.
UpkeepKeep the panel schedule current; retail fit-outs change often.
HVAC within the landlord allocation
The design criteria manual typically allocates a fixed tonnage. The design works within that allocation or negotiates it, and either way it is settled before equipment is ordered.
UpkeepService on schedule; a retail unit is unforgiving of poor airflow.
Floor build-up and transitions
Commercial floor finishes take trolley traffic and cleaning regimes, and the transition at the lease line is usually specified by the landlord rather than chosen.
UpkeepCheck transition strips for movement after the first year.
Ceiling, lighting and sign band
Grid, lighting layout and sign band interact. Sign band placement and letter height are commonly dictated by the landlord and cannot be adjusted to suit the interior afterwards.
UpkeepRe-lamp and re-aim track heads when the merchandising layout changes.
Display millwork and counters
Made off site to surveyed dimensions, including the lowered accessible section at the checkout counter, which is a requirement rather than an option.
UpkeepTouch up finishes on high-traffic corners annually.
These panels are illustrative diagrams explaining retail build-out systems in general, not photographs of Elbaz Construction work or of any real project.
Retail surfaces get used hard. We will tell you which ones survive it.
Chapter 06 — Three details inspectors look at
Closer in.
Licensed stock reference images
Licensed stock reference images
Retail gets checked closely relative to its size. These three details carry more weight in a small store than almost anything else in the fit-out.
01Exterior
Finished before signage goes up
Exterior wall surfaces are prepped and painted ahead of fascia signage and storefront glazing. Colour and finish on anything visible from the parking lot or street is usually a landlord design-criteria item as much as a maintenance one.
02Structure
Verified before it is covered
Structural work is inspected and signed off while it is still exposed, before ceilings, finishes and fixtures cover it for good.
03Lease line
Where your floor meets theirs
The transition between tenant floor and common area is commonly specified in the landlord’s design criteria, down to the strip. A small detail sitting on the boundary of two approvals, and worth confirming early.
Send us the shell drawings and we will tell you what the fit-out really needs.
Chapter 07 — Nine stages, in order
How a build-out actually runs.
Consultation to final sign-off
Consultation
The brand, the fixture plan, the opening date and which lease you are actually signing. Lease terms shape the construction programme more than most tenants expect.
Lease space assessment
Second generation or vanilla shell, condition of restrooms, HVAC distribution and storefront, and what can genuinely be reused rather than what merely looks reusable.
Design and fixture coordination
Layout, circulation, fitting rooms, checkout and back of house, coordinated with the fixture package so construction and fit-out are one plan.
Landlord submission
Submittal to the landlord’s architect against the design criteria manual — storefront, signage, flooring transitions and HVAC allocation.
Permit application
Submission with the Group M requirements addressed, and responses to review comments handled by us.
Demolition and shell work
Strip out what is not being kept, then partitions, substrate work and any structural or opening changes.
Services rough-in
Electrical, data, mechanical and fire protection installed and inspected before the ceiling closes.
Finishes and millwork
Ceiling, flooring and wall finishes, then display millwork, counters, fitting rooms and lighting aimed to the merchandising layout.
Inspection and handover
Final inspections, landlord sign-off, commissioning and the certificate that lets you open.
We pull the permits and book the inspections, so you can plan an opening date.
Chapter 08 — Both calendars
Permits and landlord approval.
Running together, deliberately
The most common cause of a delayed retail opening is treating the two approval tracks as sequential. They are not; they are parallel, and they close independently.
Group M occupancy
Retail sits in Mercantile Group M in the Florida Building Code, which sets the framework for egress, occupant load and accessibility that the fit-out satisfies.
Second generation versus shell
What you inherit determines the code path. Reusing existing restrooms and HVAC is possible where they suit the new use and still meet current requirements — a verification exercise, not an assumption.
Tenant Design Criteria
The landlord’s manual governs storefront depth, sign band placement and letter height, flooring transition at the lease line, and allocated HVAC tonnage. It binds you regardless of what the permit would allow.
Parallel submissions
The landlord submittal and the permit application are prepared and lodged on the same timeline, so neither becomes the reason the other is waiting.
Accessible entrance
Threshold height, door clearance and, where a vestibule exists, enough manoeuvring space to pass through both doors. Checked closely on public-facing space.
Egress and occupant load
Hardware requirements scale with occupant load — a higher-volume store may require panic hardware where a boutique does not. Occupant load is calculated, not estimated.
Fitting rooms and counters
At least one fitting room meeting clear floor space and door swing, and a lowered accessible section alongside the primary transaction counter.
Safety glazing
Storefront glazing at pedestrian-height locations must meet safety-glazing requirements as well as the landlord’s appearance criteria.
Utility capacity
Electrical service size and HVAC tonnage verified against the tenant’s real equipment load before design closes — particularly on a vanilla shell.
Inspections and opening
Inspections and landlord sign-off both have to close. Opening depends on the later of the two, which is why they are managed together.
Requirements vary by municipality and by landlord. Nothing here is a determination for your lease or your unit — we review the design criteria manual and confirm the code path before design commits.
Commercial permitting is its own timeline. Let us look at your unit.
Chapter 09 — What moves the number
Cost, programme and the decisions behind both.
Shell condition, systems, and landlord terms
Light refresh
Second-generation space in good condition: finishes, lighting and millwork refreshed within the existing layout and services.
- Existing restrooms and HVAC retained
- Storefront glazing reused
- Smaller permit scope
- Landlord review still applies
Full build-out
Second-generation space stripped back and re-planned, with services reworked to a new fixture layout.
- Partitions and layout changed
- Services reworked and re-inspected
- Storefront possibly replaced
- Both approval tracks fully engaged
Vanilla shell
Bare concrete and stubbed utilities — restrooms, HVAC distribution, storefront and every partition built from nothing.
- Utility capacity verified first
- Restrooms built to accessibility requirements
- Full mechanical distribution designed
- Longest programme of the three
Shell condition
What you inherit — restrooms, HVAC, glazing — is the largest single variable in a retail number.
Utility capacity
Upgrading electrical service or HVAC tonnage to suit the tenant load is a major line where it is needed.
Landlord criteria
Specified storefront systems, sign bands and transition details are not always the cheapest options available.
Accessibility work
Restrooms, entrances, fitting rooms and counters carry requirements that scale poorly in a small footprint.
Millwork package
Made-to-measure display units and counters are usually the largest single fit-out line.
Programme pressure
A fixed opening date compresses sequences and adds cost more reliably than any material choice.
Working hours
Malls and centres commonly restrict noisy work to overnight windows, which changes labour cost.
Fire protection
Sprinkler head relocation to suit a new ceiling and layout is routine, and routinely forgotten in early budgets.
We do not publish a rate for retail build-outs. The number is dominated by what the unit already has — a second-generation space with usable restrooms and HVAC and a vanilla shell with stubbed utilities are different projects entirely, even at identical square footage. The most useful early step is a lease-space assessment that tells you which of those you have signed for, and what the landlord’s design criteria will oblige you to spend regardless of your own preferences.
For a number specific to your unit, we need the shell condition and the scope.
Chapter 10 — The order of work
How a retail build-out runs.
Shell survey to final sign-off
Illustrative diagram
Lease space assessment
Establish second-generation or shell, condition of existing services, and what genuinely can be reused.
Design and dual submission
Layout and fixture coordination, then landlord and permit submissions prepared and lodged on the same timeline.
Demolition and partitions
Strip out what is not being retained, then build the new partition layout.
Services rough-in
Electrical, data, mechanical and fire protection installed and inspected before the ceiling closes.
Storefront and entrance
Storefront system, entrance doors and threshold installed to landlord criteria and safety glazing requirements.
Ceiling and finishes
Grid, diffusers and lighting installed, then flooring and wall finishes.
Millwork and fixtures
Display millwork, counters and fitting rooms installed, lighting aimed to the merchandising layout.
Inspections and opening
Inspections, landlord sign-off, commissioning and handover to the fit-and-fixture team.
An illustrative diagram of the general order of work on a retail build-out. It is not a photograph of a project, and the sequence varies with the shell condition and the landlord’s requirements.
If you have signed the lease, the clock has already started.
Chapter 11 — Building inside somebody else’s building
On site.
Illustrative reference footage
Frame 11 · on siteAssembled from the licensed stock reference photographs used on this page. It is not footage of an Elbaz Construction project, and it is not stock footage of one either — it is the process, illustrated.
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Chapter 12 — Questions, and why us
What tenants ask before they fit out.
Grouped so you can find yours
Space and scope
A vanilla shell is bare concrete with stubbed utilities and no interior partitions — everything built from scratch. Second-generation space is a previous tenant’s store, which may come with usable restrooms, HVAC distribution and storefront glazing. What you inherit is the biggest single variable in cost and schedule.
Often, if they suit your use and still meet current requirements. That is a verification exercise rather than an assumption, and it is worth doing before you sign rather than after.
Landlord
The landlord’s own rulebook for your unit — storefront depth, sign band placement and letter height, flooring transition at the lease line and your allocated HVAC tonnage. It binds you even where the permit would allow more latitude.
Neither. They run in parallel and both must close before you open. Treating them as sequential is the most common cause of a delayed opening.
Accessibility and code
Yes — at least one fitting room meeting clear floor space and door swing requirements. Small footprints get more scrutiny per square foot, not less, because the public-facing elements are concentrated.
It depends on occupant load, which is calculated for your space and use. A lower-volume boutique has more flexibility than a high-traffic store. It is established at design stage rather than at inspection.
A lowered accessible section is required alongside the primary transaction counter. It is a millwork decision, so it has to be in the drawing before manufacture.
Programme
It depends far more on shell condition and the two approval tracks than on the construction itself. We give a programme after the lease-space assessment, because a date given before that is guesswork.
Usually, and it is the right way to plan a retail job — work backwards from the opening. What compresses is design and approval time, which is why starting those early matters more than adding labour later.
Working in a centre
In many malls and centres, yes, for the noisy trades. It is a real cost factor and it is priced up front rather than discovered.
This page
Because the photography library these pages are built from contains no commercial or retail project photography, and we would rather use labelled licensed stock photography than show a residential room and let it read as a store. Every image here is labelled accordingly.
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Project files
A dessert counter and a salon wall.
Two retail-facing interiors built out by Elbaz Construction: a dessert shop counter and a nail salon display wall. Both show the merchandising surfaces, lighting and finishes a retail renovation is judged on.
Related interior: a dessert shop's black slat wall
This is a dessert shop, not a retail store. It is shown because the trades match a trading floor: a black fluted slat wall behind the counter, menu screens, a pastry case, an order kiosk and recessed lights in a drop ceiling. Cartoon murals and a neon sign give the room its character.
Scope of work
- Black fluted slat wall installed behind the counter
- Mounting and power for three digital menu boards
- Recessed lighting set into a drop ceiling
- Black subway tile finish near the kitchen door
- Neon sign mounting with its own power feed
- Painted murals on the customer-facing wall
- Counter, pastry case and kiosk placed on a planned floor layout
Materials & finishes
What to look for in the photos
Look at how the menu screens line up on the slat wall and how the recessed lights fall across it. That is what a counter wall looks like when the electrical and the finish were planned together.
Elbaz Construction project photo · 4 photos
Related interior: a salon's floating shelf wall
These photos come from a nail salon, shown because a product wall is the same job as a retail display wall. White floating shelves run the length of the room, loaded with red polish boxes and bottles. The line of shelves leads the eye down the salon.
Scope of work
- Wall prepared and painted white for a display backdrop
- Floating shelves fixed to the wall at a consistent spacing
- Shelf runs aligned along a long wall
- Lighting to keep the product wall bright
- Walkway clearance in front of the shelving
- Stock organized by color and box size
Materials & finishes
What to look for in the photos
Check the shelf spacing and how straight the long run stays as it recedes. A product wall only reads as designed when every shelf lines up.
Elbaz Construction project photo · 3 photos
Budget and schedule
Where a retail fit-out goes.
A trading floor spends on what customers see and on what holds it up. These charts show typical shares and a typical sequence, and your lease and landlord criteria move both.
Where a typical retail build-out budget goes
- Millwork and fixtures20%
- Electrical and lighting16%
- Walls and ceilings14%
- Flooring12%
- Storefront and signage10%
- Labor and supervision20%
- Permits and inspections8%
These are typical shares only, and the scope of your fixtures, storefront and electrical service moves them.
A typical retail build-out sequence, in weeks
Fixture and sign lead times often set the opening date, so decisions made early save the most time.
Drawn out
Three drawings behind a storefront.
A shop front, a schedule and an entrance route are the three things that get reviewed before anything is sold.
The storefront grid
Mullions divide the glazing, and the entrance door sits in the same frame. Product approvals and wind ratings decide which assemblies are allowed on the street side.
Lease to opening day
A retail fit-out moves from lease and landlord review through permit, build and inspection to the certificate that lets you open the doors.
Parking to the front door
The accessible route from the lot to your entrance is checked on every shop front, including the slope of any ramp and the width of the door.
Scope planner
Rough out your retail scope.
Answer three questions to see the trades involved and a typical range of weeks on site. It is a starting point for the walkthrough.
Finishes
Details a shopper reads first.
Signage, screens and shelving are what a customer notices before anything else. These four close-ups come from a dessert shop and a nail salon, the nearest real work we have photographed to a trading space.
More questions
Shop-front and fixture questions.
The questions retail tenants ask once the lease is signed and the hardware is on order.
Ask us directlyDoes a storefront sign need its own permit?
In most South Florida municipalities, yes. Signs are permitted separately from the interior work, and the sign company or your contractor submits drawings showing size, mounting and the electrical feed. Your landlord's sign criteria usually apply first, so get that approval in writing before the sign is fabricated. A neon or lit sign also needs an inspected power connection.
What does HVHZ mean for replacing storefront glass?
In Miami-Dade and Broward, the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone requires glazing, frames and doors to carry a current product approval for the wind load at that location. The approval number is checked at permit and again at inspection. Standard glass without an approval cannot go in, so confirm the product before you order it.
How do I protect stock and fixtures during hurricane season?
Write a simple plan into the schedule. Keep merchandise off the floor in storage, tie down tall fixtures, and know how your landlord handles shutters or panels. Between June and November, we also avoid leaving the shell open for long. If a storm is named, we secure the site first and tell you the revised dates.
How do display fixtures and lighting change the electrical scope?
Each lit shelf, screen or sign needs a circuit and a mounting point, and those are far cheaper to place before the wall is closed. Track lights, wall washers and menu screens also affect panel capacity. Give us your fixture drawings early so the electrician can size the panel once instead of revisiting it.
Can I keep the existing storefront and only refresh the inside?
Often yes. If the front stays as it is, the work stays inside and the permit is simpler. Two things can change that: new accessibility requirements at the entrance, and any glass that is cracked or lacks a product approval. A short site visit tells us whether the front can stay.
How do you handle humidity at a door that opens to the street?
Humid outdoor air reaching a cold interior causes condensation on glass, floors and metal. We check the door seals, plan a vestibule or air curtain where it makes sense, and choose floors that stay safe when wet. Setting the air-conditioning to a steady temperature before fixtures arrive also helps.
What do mall and plaza landlords usually require on site?
Expect rules on work hours, deliveries, hoarding or barricades at the storefront, dust protection and use of common areas. Many require a certificate of insurance naming them before any worker enters. Ask the property manager for the contractor rules early, because they affect the schedule more than the drawings do.
Which finishes hold up best behind a busy counter?
Choose surfaces that take scuffs and cleaning without showing it. Tile and solid-surface panels near the counter take far more wear than painted drywall. The dessert shop photos on this page use black subway tile at the kitchen door and slat panels in the customer area, a mix of durable and decorative.
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Chapter 13B — Read further
Commercial guides and related services.
From our resource centre
Commercial
Commercial Contracting
How commercial work differs from residential in practice, not just in scale.
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Method
Design-Build Services
Keeping design coordination and construction under one contract on a fixed date.
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Costs
How Much Does It Cost to Remodel a House?
The cost logic transfers: what you inherit drives the number.
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Property
Property Renovation
Renovating space you hold as an asset rather than a home.
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Storm readiness
Hurricane-Resistant Construction in South Florida
Wind speeds, impact-rated openings and the roof-to-foundation load path.
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Comparison
Renovation vs Construction
Where a fit-out sits between the two.
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Chapter 14 — Start here
Send us the lease.
A space assessment, not a sales visit
The two documents that answer most retail questions are the lease and the landlord’s Tenant Design Criteria manual. With those and a look at the unit we can tell you what you have actually taken on — ideally before you sign rather than after.
What happens after you send it
Useful to have ready
- The unit address and approximate area
- The lease or heads of terms
- The landlord’s Tenant Design Criteria manual if issued
- Your fixture plan or brand standard
- Your target opening date
