Bal Harbour, taken down to the studs.

Bal Harbour is barely ten blocks of barrier island, and it holds two very different kinds of home. West of Collins Avenue, behind a staffed gate, the estate section ranges from mid-century modern houses to Mediterranean Revival and new construction on Bal Bay Drive, Harbour Way, and the bayfront. East of Collins, the towers climb from the Plaza of Bal Harbour, built in 1965, to Oceana, finished in 2016. High-end remodeling here means either taking a mid-century house down to block and beam or gutting a tower residence to the slab, and we do both.

Permits go through the Bal Harbour Village Building Department at Village Hall on 96th Street, and the Village reads plans closely. Anything that changes the exterior, from windows and doors to paint and additions, needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Architectural Review Board before the building permit moves. Interior-only work goes straight to plan review. Then add the practical layer: this is a High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so openings need Miami-Dade product approvals, and much of the village sits in AE flood zones, where FEMA substantial-improvement rules can shape how far a renovation of an older home can go.

PGX Builders Group brings over two decades of South Florida building and more than 150 completed remodels and additions to every job, each one permitted and inspected. In Bal Harbour that experience shows up as a fixed written scope before demolition, a supervisor on site every working day, and crews who treat a guard gate and a service elevator with equal respect. One licensed team, Lic. CGC1539072, carries the project from estimate to warranty. No handoffs, no shrugs.