What Is Commercial Tenant Finishing for Businesses?
Commercial tenant finishing and remodeling projects cover a wide variety of improvements, including the alteration or reconfiguration of your commercial space. Commercial spaces can include offices, retail stores, warehouses, restaurants, tenant buildings, or even industrial or “flex” spaces.
Whether you are expanding, downsizing, rebranding, or just in need of modernization, commercial tenant finishing for businesses allows you to reinvent your space and meet the changing needs of your customers and business. Here is everything you need to know about commercial tenant finishing.
Interior Improvement
Interior improvements can be made by both the owner and tenant of a commercial space. Of course, tenants will require permission from the owners. Often, the owners will provide funding towards the interior improvements as it will increase the value of their property. Changes can include customized or standardized alterations. It can include major changes, such as demolition to knock out walls, electrical upgrades, and plumbing, or cosmetic changes like new paint, flooring, lighting fixtures, and built-ins.
Landlord Improvements
Landlord improvements are also often referred to as white-box improvements. These improvements are standardized alterations made before a lease agreement. This would include configuring the space for quick turnover to a tenant before that tenant makes their own improvements.
Tenant Improvements
These modifications meet the specific needs of the tenant. They become highly customized improvements with specific office designations, lobby requirements, specialty flooring needs, specific safety requirements for some industrial spaces, built-in fixtures, or bars for stores and restaurants.
Types of Projects
There are many different types of commercial tenant finishing projects, including:
- Tenant Finish: This is the design and remodel to incorporate unique features required for tenant improvements.
- Leasehold Improvements: This type of project is designed to meet the needs and outlined specifications of a lease agreement.
- Interior Improvements: These improvements can include major redesigns of areas, such as lobbies, entryways, restrooms, kitchens, break rooms, conference rooms, and shared office space.
- Commercial Remodeling: This is usually a larger scale project to update or replace electrical, HVAC, and plumbing systems. It can also involve major structural reinforcements, the reconfiguration of an entire space, or complex exterior makeovers.
- Commercial Construction: This could be starting from the ground up, major additions to an existing structure, or major landscaping and maintenance projects.
Other Commercial Remodeling Projects
Other projects that might be required for commercial purposes include:
Interior remodeling
- Sheetrock, texture, and painting
- Cabinet and countertop installation
- Unit upgrades and make-ready services
- Amenity upgrades
- Upgrades to more energy-efficient electrical and plumbing fixtures
- Installation of custom flooring
- Fire and water damage restoration
Our outdoor remodeling services
- Decks, balconies, and patio replacement and repair
- Siding installation, including stone veneer, vinyl, fiber cement, and others
- Door and window replacement
- Roofing, gutters, and downspout installation
- Drainage solutions, grading, and repair
- Fence repair or replacement
- Concrete replacement
Of course, this covers the basics of commercial tenant finishing for businesses. Each business or commercial property will have its own requirements to improve the function and potential revenue generation for their space.
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