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AH Estimating

Retail & Tenant Improvement Estimating Florida

Retail Buildouts Move Fast. Your Estimate Needs to Keep Up.

A retail tenant improvement project in Florida has a fixed delivery date from the moment the lease is signed. The landlord’s delivery deadline doesn’t move for a bid that came in 15% high. The opening day doesn’t move for a material budget that missed the MEP coordination. And the GC who comes in with a sharp, accurate TI estimate wins the job every time.
AH Estimating provides retail construction and tenant improvement estimating services for general contractors, retail developers, and fit-out specialists across Florida. Inline retail stores in South Florida’s active shopping center market, restaurant buildouts in the I-4 corridor, flagship store construction in Palm Beach and the Tampa Bay area, and the ongoing wave of fast-casual and quick-service restaurant development across Central Florida we estimate every retail scope with the line-item precision that national retail chains and local landlords require.

WHAT WE COVER

Retail & TI Estimating Services We Provide

Inline Retail Store Buildout

Shell-to-finish TI estimates for inline retail in shopping centers, lifestyle centers, and mixed-use developments storefront, demising walls, MEP, flooring, lighting, and millwork priced against the landlord work letter scope.

Restaurant & Food Service TI

QSR, fast casual, and full-service restaurant buildout estimates commercial kitchen equipment rough-in, grease waste and hood exhaust MEP, walk-in cooler coordination, and FOH finish packages. Florida health code compliance items included.

Anchor & Big Box Construction

Standalone and anchor tenant shell and core construction estimates tilt-up or CMU structure, storefront systems, roof, HVAC, electrical service, and site work priced as a complete scope.

Shopping Center Renovation & Re-Tenanting

Center-wide renovation estimates for landlord capital programs storefront renovation, common area upgrades, parking lot resurfacing, and tenant suite shell preparation for new occupancy.

Flagship & Lifestyle Retail

High-finish flagship store buildouts with custom millwork, decorative lighting, specialty flooring systems, and architectural feature walls estimated with the material and labor specificity that luxury retail brands require.

Mixed-Use Retail Podium

Retail podium estimates within mixed-use developments — ground floor retail shell costs isolated from residential or office above, with MEP separation, vertical transportation, and loading dock coordination included.

Get Your Retail / TI Estimate 24 to 48 Hours

F. A. Q

Retail & Tenant Improvement Estimating — FAQs

Our retail TI estimates include a complete scope breakdown against the landlord work letter — demising wall construction, storefront, MEP (HVAC, electrical, plumbing), flooring, ceiling system, lighting, millwork and casework, and specialties. Landlord-provided work is excluded and clearly noted so scope boundaries are unambiguous.

Yes. We estimate base building shell construction (structure, envelope, MEP main distribution) and tenant improvement fit-out as separate scopes — giving landlords and developers a clear picture of total development cost and per-tenant TI allowance requirements.

Yes. Restaurant and food service buildout is a specific estimating service we provide. We estimate commercial kitchen equipment rough-in, grease waste and ventilation systems, walk-in cooler coordination, and Florida Health Code compliance items as standard line items in every food service TI estimate.

For retail projects in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, we apply Florida Product Approval (NOA) requirements for impact-rated storefronts and glazing systems pricing these as code-compliant base specifications rather than as add-alternates, since impact glazing is not optional in HVHZ.