North Miami is home to one of the largest Haitian-American communities in the country and to Florida International University’s waterfront Biscayne Bay Campus, a 200-acre anchor on the city’s east side. Away from the campus, most of the city’s residential streets are filled with single-family homes built during the postwar decades — modest square footage, small kitchens, closed-off rooms — designed for households far smaller than the multi-generational families who often live in them today.

Elbaz Construction’s remodeling work in North Miami tends to center on exactly that mismatch: opening up a cramped mid-century floor plan, adding a suite for aging parents or adult children, and bringing older electrical and plumbing systems up to current Florida code. We handle the permitting and inspections that come with modifying an established property, so a North Miami family ends up with a home that actually fits how they live.