Tenant Improvements Articles
A tenant improvement has a move-in weekend attached to it. These articles cover work letters, first- versus 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 →Podium slabs in multifamily: the deck that carries the building
The morning a podium slab pours, the site is quiet except for the pump. Everything above it, four or five floors of wood-framed apartments, is waiting on that…
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 →Apartment construction and unit turns: how the work really runs
The leasing office had already signed twelve residents for the first building before the parking lot was paved. That is the reality of multifamily work: the mo…
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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