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Leasehold improvements.

Build-outs in leased commercial space, structured around your tenant-allowance dollars and your lease's reinstatement clauses. We work the financial side as carefully as the construction side — you only pay capital expenditure dollars on capital expenditure work.

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Leasehold improvement build-out in a leased office floor
What we do

The same work as a tenant improvement — viewed through the lease.

Leasehold improvements are tenant improvements seen from the lease and accounting side. The work is the same — demo, framing, MEP, finishes — but the framing matters. The landlord is paying part of it through a TI allowance ($30 to $80 per square foot is typical in the GTA right now). Your accounting team needs the cost split between leasehold improvements (capitalized, amortized over the lease term) and operating expenses (fully expensed). Your lease has a reinstatement clause that may require you to remove what you build at lease end.

We bid these projects with a costed scope that lines up with your TI allowance, a clean capital-vs.-operating cost classification, and an explicit reinstatement plan. We coordinate permitting under the landlord's building permit umbrella where applicable, work with the base-building HVAC, electrical and life-safety systems, and document the work for both your records and the landlord's hand-back inspection.

Capabilities
  • TI-allowance scoped fit-out & pricing
  • Capital vs. operating cost classification
  • Lease-clause reinstatement planning
  • LEED CI for sustainable fit-outs
  • Base-building HVAC, electrical & life-safety coordination
  • Permitting under landlord umbrella
  • Acoustic separation & partitions
  • Branded retail & office build-out programs
  • Hand-back inspection documentation
  • Lease-end reinstatement & demolition
How we work

From TI allowance to hand-back.

Construction is half the work. Lease and accounting alignment is the other half.

STEP / 01
Allowance scoping
We start with your lease abstract and TI allowance. Scope is built to land within the dollars on the table, with overages flagged before they land in your invoice. Reinstatement obligations are noted up front.
STEP / 02
Cost classification
We split the estimate into capital-cost line items (the asset that survives the lease) and operating-cost line items (consumables, soft costs). Your accountant gets a clean handoff. CCA classes are noted where useful.
STEP / 03
Build & permit
Work proceeds under the landlord's building permit where the lease allows; otherwise we pull a tenant permit. Base-building MEP connections are coordinated with the building engineer. Standard finishes-out scope from there.
STEP / 04
Lease-end reinstatement
When the lease ends, we come back and remove what the lease requires removed. Floor-to-base-building condition where stipulated. Hand-back inspection passed first time.
How we engage

Hire us as the GC, or as the trade.

Leasehold work happens in two ways. We do both.

As your GC

We run the whole leasehold improvement project — pricing, permitting, demolition, all trades, finishes, hand-back. One contract, one schedule, one accountable party. Most of our leasehold work is done this way for repeat tenants and for property managers who place us on TI projects.

As a sub to another GC

When another GC runs the project but needs a specialty crew — concrete, masonry, civil, restoration — we bid as a trade subcontractor. Same crew, same standards, just a different contractual position. Useful for portfolio TI rollouts where one GC is leading the program.

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