West Miami earned its old nickname, the “Town of Veterans,” from the returning World War II soldiers who built homes here on land offered as an incentive after the city incorporated in 1947. At under a square mile, it’s one of the most compact cities in Miami-Dade County, and its tightly packed postwar houses have passed through generations of Jewish families and, from the 1960s onward, Cuban-American families who called the neighborhood home.

Making the most of a small footprint is the recurring theme behind Elbaz Construction’s work in West Miami — smart additions, reconfigured layouts, and updated systems that bring a decades-old house up to current hurricane and building codes without losing the tight-knit scale of the block. We manage the process from city permitting to final walkthrough, so homeowners get a renovation that fits both their family and their lot.