Retail Tenant Improvements in Winter Garden, FL.
St. Cyr Contracting turns leased retail space into a store that is ready to open — storefront, fixtures, finishes, and final inspection. Built to your brand standard on a fixed-price contract, on a schedule that protects your lease commencement date.
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A retail tenant improvement is not an office build-out with nicer paint. Merchandising flow, sightlines from the entry, fixture placement, fitting rooms, point-of-sale power and data, stockroom access, and an ADA-compliant path of travel all have to work together — and they all have to pass inspection before you can stock shelves.
St. Cyr Contracting handles the full scope under one contract: demolition of the previous tenant’s leftovers, storefront and entry work, MEP, framing, ceilings, lighting, flooring, fixtures, and finishes. Because Mo builds our millwork and casework in-house, your checkout counters, display units, and back-bar cabinetry are not sitting in a third-party shop’s queue while your rent clock runs.
What is included in a retail tenant improvement?
Retail TI scope depends heavily on whether you are taking a first-generation shell or a second-generation space that another tenant already occupied. A full retail improvement typically includes:
- Demolition and make-ready — removing the prior tenant’s fixtures, flooring, partitions, and signage back to a clean, buildable space
- Storefront and entry — glazing, entry doors, vestibules, security grilles, and coordination with the landlord’s facade criteria
- Space planning for merchandising — fixture layout, sightlines from the door, and aisle widths that satisfy both selling strategy and egress code
- MEP rough-in — HVAC distribution and zoning for the sales floor, dedicated circuits for POS and displays, data and network conduit, and plumbing for restrooms or back-of-house
- Fixtures, millwork, and casework — checkout counters, wall systems, display units, shelving, and cash wraps built in-house to your spec
- Lighting — general, accent, and display lighting, which in retail is a merchandising decision as much as an electrical one
- Flooring and ceilings — zoned finishes that separate sales floor from stockroom and fitting areas
- ADA path of travel — accessible entry, aisle clearances, restroom compliance, and counter heights
- Fitting rooms and back of house — stockroom shelving, receiving area, break room, and manager’s office
- Signage coordination — blocking, power, and permits for exterior and interior signage
We coordinate every trade and hand over an inspected space with a certificate of occupancy.
What sets our retail buildouts apart.
We build the fixtures, not just the walls. Mo has been building cabinetry and casework by hand since 2008. For a retail tenant that means the cash wrap, display walls, and back-bar millwork come from the same contractor patching your slab and hanging your ceiling grid — one schedule, one point of accountability, and no gap between “construction is done” and “fixtures finally arrived.”
Our carpenters are on our payroll. Most commercial contractors manage subcontractors. Our framing, drywall, and finish carpenters work for us, which means we can compress a schedule when a landlord’s delivery date slips without renegotiating with three separate subs.
We build to a rent clock, not a wish list. Retail construction runs against lease commencement, seasonal openings, and landlord delivery dates. We sequence permits and long-lead items first, and we tell you at the walkthrough if your target opening date is realistic — before you sign, not after.
Fixed-price contracts. You get a scoped, fixed-price contract. Change orders happen when you change the scope, not when we discover something we should have caught in planning.
Retail tenant improvement services we offer.
We handle retail interior construction across formats and tenant types:
- First-generation shell buildouts — bare space with landlord-stubbed utilities to a fully finished, open-for-business store
- Second-generation retail conversions — taking over a space a previous tenant occupied and reworking it for a different brand, layout, or use
- Franchise and brand-standard rollouts — construction built to corporate prototype drawings, finish schedules, and fixture specs
- Boutique and specialty retail — smaller footprints where millwork quality and lighting carry the whole experience
- Salon, spa, and personal service buildouts — plumbing-heavy layouts with wash stations, treatment rooms, and dedicated ventilation
- Quick-service and grab-and-go food retail — hood and grease interceptor coordination, health department review, and durable back-of-house finishes
- Showrooms and shop-in-shop — display-led spaces inside larger retail or commercial buildings
- Multi-site refreshes and remodels — phased remodels across several locations on a repeatable scope and schedule
- Occupied-center work — after-hours and phased construction so neighboring tenants keep trading
Whether it is your first location or your fifth, we scope it properly before anyone swings a hammer.
Retail tenant improvements in Winter Garden & Central Florida.
We build retail interiors across Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Lake, and Polk counties — Winter Garden, Horizon West, Ocoee, Windermere, Clermont, Kissimmee, Celebration, Davenport, and the greater Orlando metro.
Retail construction in Central Florida lives and dies on which authority reviews your plans, and this region has more of them than most:
- Winter Garden and Plant Street — downtown commercial work runs through the City of Winter Garden, where storefront and facade changes draw more scrutiny than a suburban strip center
- Lake Buena Vista and the Disney Springs area — retail inside the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District is permitted by the District, not Orange County, and contractors must be registered with the District’s Building and Safety department before they can even submit an application
- ChampionsGate and the Four Corners area — the Osceola and Polk county boundary runs through this corridor, so two storefronts a few hundred feet apart can answer to different building departments
- Mount Dora’s historic district — exterior work on a commercial building more than 50 years old needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Historic Preservation Board, which meets once a month with a three-week submission cutoff
- Unincorporated Orange and Osceola County — county review with its own commercial plan-review queue, separate from any city timeline
Knowing which of those applies to your space before you sign a lease is the difference between opening on schedule and explaining a delay to your landlord.
What does a retail tenant improvement cost in Central Florida?
Retail TI cost is driven by three things: whether the space is first- or second-generation, how much of the fixture package is construction versus furniture, and how much MEP work your use requires.
As general planning ranges in the Central Florida market, a light second-generation refresh — paint, flooring, lighting, and minor fixture work in a space that already suits your use — commonly runs $30 to $60 per square foot. A full first-generation retail buildout from bare shell, including storefront, MEP, millwork, and finishes, more often lands between $75 and $150 per square foot. Plumbing-heavy uses such as salons, spas, and food retail sit at the upper end or above it because of the mechanical, grease, and ventilation scope.
Landlord tenant improvement allowances frequently cover a meaningful share of that. We review your lease exhibit and work letter, tell you plainly what the allowance actually covers, and scope the rest so there are no surprises at reconciliation.
Every number above is a planning range, not a quote. Mo walks the space, reviews your drawings and lease exhibit, and gives you a fixed price against a defined scope.
Ready to start your retail buildout?
Schedule a consultation with Mo to walk the space, review your lease exhibit and landlord work letter, and get a realistic budget and opening-date assessment.
Why St. Cyr
- Licensed Florida General Contractor
- Fixtures & millwork built in-house
- Direct supplier pricing passed to you
- Fixed-price contracts, no surprises
- 1-year workmanship warranty
- Family-owned since 2008
Common Questions
Questions about retail tenant improvements in Central Florida
Other commercial services we do well.
Office Build-Outs
Empty shell to move-in ready. Layout, MEP, ceilings, flooring, and finishes on a fixed-price contract.
Medical Office Construction
Medical, dental, and healthcare buildouts with the compliance and infection-control scope handled.
ADA Commercial Remodeling
Accessibility compliance upgrades for commercial spaces, from path of travel to restrooms.
Design-Build Services
The people who design your project are the people who build it. Realistic budgets from day one.
Ready to plan your retail buildout?
Schedule a consultation with Mo to walk the space, discuss the scope, and get a realistic budget range. We serve Winter Garden, Orlando, Windermere, Ocoee, Clermont, Kissimmee, and across Central Florida.