Room to stay on your street.

Alfred Kuhn platted Victoria Park in 1925 with curving and diagonal streets, which produced beautiful blocks and a fair number of awkward lots. Owners here rarely leave. They are minutes from Las Olas and a short walk from Holiday Park, so instead of moving they add: a rear family room and primary suite behind a cottage on NE 8th Street, a second story over a fifties ranch, a garage turned into a proper guest suite, or an in-law wing for parents who have decided Fort Lauderdale beats winter.

Fort Lauderdale's rules get specific once you add square footage, and the City's Development Services Department applies all of them at once. Zoning review under the city's land development regulations governs setbacks, lot coverage and the thirty-five-foot height limit that applies in the single-family districts covering most of Victoria Park. Structural drawings need an engineer, new openings need HVHZ product approvals, and work in a mapped flood zone brings an elevation certificate into the submittal. If your property sits in a special flood hazard area, the federal fifty-percent substantial improvement test can reshape the project, so we run that math before anyone draws.

New foundations next to ninety-year-old ones, tie-beams poured into walls that were never designed for them, roof tie-ins where stucco has to match a texture nobody makes anymore: that is the part of an addition you cannot see and cannot skip. PGX has delivered more than 150 remodels and additions across South Florida in over 20 years, all permitted and inspected. You get a fixed written scope, daily supervision, the occupied half of the house kept livable, and one accountable team from feasibility through warranty.