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Commercial & Tenant Improvement

Property managers and business owners work to different constraints than homeowners: occupancy, trading hours, and a landlord's specification. The scope discipline is the same.

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A commercial job is judged on two things a residential one is not: whether the business could keep operating while it happened, and whether the work satisfies a lease. Both belong in the scope from the start.

That means agreeing up front which areas stay live, what happens outside trading hours, how dust and noise are contained from occupied space, and what documentation the landlord or the tenant needs at handover.

Scope of commercial work

The work below is what we have built, not a list of everything a general contractor could theoretically take on.

Tenant improvement and fit-out — taking a leased shell or a tired unit to an operating business.
Food-service build-out — three-compartment sinks, separate hand sinks, refrigerated prep lines and the drainage that has to be right before a health inspection, not after.
Salon, spa and wellness suites — styling stations, shampoo plumbing, treatment rooms, and cedar sauna installation.
Strip-out and demolition — including the unglamorous part, where what was behind the casework turns out to be the actual job.
Under-slab and in-wall plumbing — trenching a concrete floor to move waste, and leaving it open for inspection before it is closed.
Custom millwork — reception desks, service bars and retail shelving, built to the space rather than ordered to fit it.
Specialty flooring — encaustic tile, parquet restoration, and resilient flooring rated for commercial traffic.
Specialty wall finishes — textured and polished plaster, feature walls, and the preparation that decides whether either survives.
Unit bathrooms and corridors — repeatable multi-unit work, where the same detail has to land the same way thirty times.

Working around an operating business

Every commercial job on this page was built around somebody's opening hours. What that means in practice is agreed in the scope rather than improvised on site: which areas stay in use and on what dates, how the work area is separated from the occupied one, where deliveries land, and what the landlord or the tenant needs at handover.

We would rather tell you what a phased schedule actually costs than quote a single number and discover the phasing later.

In the meantime

If you have a commercial project in Colorado Springs, call and describe it. You will get a straight answer about whether it is work we should be bidding on, which is more useful than a page of claims.

Reading a Bid

What a commercial bid should tell you.

This is general to the trade rather than specific to us — but if a bid you are holding does not answer these, that is worth knowing before you sign it.

Which areas stay live, and when

On an occupied property the schedule is a commercial decision, not just a construction one. A bid should name which areas remain in use, which are handed over, and on what dates each changes. "We will work around you" is not a schedule.

What happens to dust, noise and access

Containment between a work area and an occupied one costs money and takes space. If a bid does not mention temporary partitions, negative air, floor protection or how deliveries reach the space, either it has been left out or it is going to be discovered later.

Who satisfies the lease

Tenant improvement work is usually judged against a landlord's specification as well as the building code. Somebody has to produce closeout documentation — permits, inspection sign-offs, warranties on installed equipment, as-builts where the lease asks for them. The bid should say who that somebody is.

What the permit path actually is

Commercial permitting in El Paso County runs on a different track from residential, and a change of use or occupancy classification can add review time that no amount of site labor recovers. A realistic bid prices the wait, not just the work.

What happens when something opens up

Older commercial space hides more than a house does — abandoned services, unpermitted earlier work, fire-rated assemblies that are no longer rated. The question is not whether something surfaces. It is whether you find out as a priced decision or as an invoice.

The underlying trades are the same ones set out on the residential pages — flooring, interior finishing, carpentry — applied under different constraints. What ASI takes on commercially is listed above, and stays marked as unconfirmed until Hector has confirmed it directly.

Recent Commercial Work

Built around somebody's opening hours.

Captions describe what is in the frame. Clients are not named here — the work is theirs to talk about, not ours.

Salon reception with a paneled desk, restored herringbone parquet floor and a chandelier — Salon reception — paneled desk, restored herringbone parquet, chandelier.

Three-compartment stainless sink with a separate hand sink and exposed conduit in a commercial kitchen — Commercial kitchen — three-compartment sink and separate hand sink.

Café service bar with a reclaimed timber front, dark solid-surface counter and patterned encaustic tile floor — Café service bar — reclaimed timber front, encaustic tile floor.

Commercial kitchen with a refrigerated prep table and a wall-mounted hand sink on tiled floor — Refrigerated prep table and wall-mounted hand sink.

Salon styling suite with a wall-mounted mirror, floating timber shelf and built-in retail shelving — Salon styling suite — mirror, floating shelf, built-in retail shelving.

Salon back-bar with shaker cabinetry, granite counter, undermount sink and under-counter refrigeration — Salon back-bar — shaker cabinetry, granite, undermount sink.

Timber pergola with trailing greenery over a café floor, pendant lighting and exposed conduit above — Timber pergola and pendant lighting over the café floor.

Cedar-lined sauna with two bench levels, built into a commercial wellness suite — Cedar-lined sauna built into a wellness suite.

Hallway finished in textured plaster, looking through to the reception area — Textured plaster hallway looking through to reception.

Before and During

The part most portfolios leave out.

A finished photograph proves somebody can finish. These are the stages that decide whether the finish lasts — and they are where a commercial bid is either honest about the unknowns or quiet about them.