Tenant Improvements Articles
A tenant improvement has a move-in weekend attached to it. We get into work letters, first- and second-generation space, phasing around a working office and installing the furniture as the last week of the job.
Coworking build-outs: dense offices, quiet walls, a fixed open date
Walk a finished coworking floor and count the doors. A conventional office of the same size might have fifteen. A flex-office floor can have sixty, plus a doze…
Read the article →Amenity floor renovations in podium multifamily buildings
The clubroom in a podium apartment building usually sits directly over the parking level, and the first thing we check before we touch a wall is what's already…
Read the article →Gym and fitness studio build-outs: what the space has to carry
The first thing we look at in a proposed gym space is not the finish board. It is the floor. A second-floor retail bay that was framed for clothing racks is no…
Read the article →Multifamily interiors: unit finish packages, turns and amenity spaces
The property manager handed us a spreadsheet with forty-eight units on it and a column of dates that did not move. Fourteen were vacant that week. The rest cam…
Read the article →Office build-outs and TI work, planned around your move-in date
The lease says rent starts on the first of the month. The furniture truck is booked for the week before. Somewhere between those two dates, the ceiling grid ha…
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