More home, no more land.

On an island of condominiums, adding square footage means acquiring it next door. The established Fisher Island move is the unit combination: two residences at Oceanside, Bayside Village, or one of the Palazzo buildings joined into a single great flat, with an engineered opening where a demising wall stood, kitchens consolidated, and the second entry absorbed. Owners also rework the island's villa-style residences at Seaside Villas, capturing hallways, closets, and awkward 1980s planning to make the footprint live larger than its deed suggests.

Combining units is structural work, and the approvals treat it that way. Fisher Island is unincorporated, so plans, engineering, and inspections run through Miami-Dade County's building department, with a Florida-licensed engineer signing the opening in what is often a load-bearing or fire-rated demising wall. Your association must approve the combination under its governing documents, and the Fisher Island Community Association registers the contractor before mobilization. Buildings dating to the late 1980s are also in Florida's milestone-inspection cycle, which makes clean structural documentation more valuable than ever. We assemble that package — architect, engineer, association, county — as one coordinated submission.

We start with feasibility, not enthusiasm. Before you buy the unit next door, PGX can review the demising wall construction, the mechanical systems that will need to merge, and the association's appetite for combinations, then tell you in writing what the project honestly involves. From there it is our standard discipline: a fixed scope, one accountable licensed team under CGC1539072, daily on-island supervision, and finish protection worthy of the buildings we work in. More than 20 years in South Florida taught us that the best additions are the ones engineered before they are imagined finished.