Open-plan remodeled living space — home remodeling in Brickell, Florida. Architectural rendering.

Home Remodeling · Brickell, FL

Brickell remodels, down to the slab.

Whole-unit gut renovations and townhome remodels across Brickell, permitted through the City of Miami, cleared with your association, and supervised every working day by a licensed general contractor. Lic. CGC1539072, licensed and insured.

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Home Remodeling in Brickell

Built for towers, not just houses.

Brickell's housing stock runs vertical. The early-eighties bayfront towers, The Palace, Atlantis, and Villa Regina among them, hold generous floor plates with dated bones: enclosed kitchens, dropped ceilings, decades-old risers. Bristol Tower and the Brickell Key buildings added nineties layouts that feel roomy but tired, while newer deliveries like Brickell Flatiron and Una arrive polished yet still get personalized. Owners here routinely buy for the view and the square footage, then take the unit to bare slab and start over. Add the townhomes on Brickell's western streets toward The Roads, platted by Mary Brickell in 1922, and you have a remodeling market unlike anywhere else in Miami.

Permits here run through the City of Miami Building Department, and in a tower that is only half the paperwork. Your association will want a full renovation package: signed and sealed drawings, certificates of insurance, contractor registration, freight elevator reservations, and a schedule that respects the building's working-hour windows. Units from the seventies and eighties often need an asbestos survey before demolition can start. And with many older towers now moving through Florida's milestone inspections and structural integrity reserve studies, boards read renovation plans more carefully than they used to. We prepare packages built to pass on the first read.

PGX Builders Group has spent more than 20 years building in South Florida, with 150-plus remodels and additions delivered, and high-rise work rewards our habits: a fixed written scope before demolition, a supervisor on site daily, and finish protection that extends past your front door into the corridor your neighbors use. We keep the freight elevator schedule sacred, keep property managers informed, and close out every permit with inspections signed. One accountable team from the first walk-through to the warranty. Estimate, contract, build, done.

Remodelled living space viewed from the seating area — architectural rendering

Where we work in Brickell

Brickell Key Brickell Avenue West Brickell Brickell City Centre Mary Brickell Village Brickell Roads Four Seasons Residences Icon Brickell Brickell Flatiron Echo Brickell Santa Maria Jade Residences Una Residences The Palace

Elsewhere in Brickell? Call us — if it's in Miami-Dade or Broward, we probably build there.

What's included

What a Brickell gut renovation covers.

Every project starts with a fixed written scope and a real schedule. These are the pieces we handle most often in Brickell.

01

Full-gut unit renovations

Down to bare slab and back: new layouts, doors, millwork, and finishes, staged around your building's elevator bookings and working hours.

02

Wall removals, engineer confirmed

Opening enclosed kitchens, re-planning bedroom wings, and confirming with an engineer which walls are partitions and which are holding up your neighbors.

03

Full MEP updates

New electrical panels, plumbing branch lines, and fan-coil or ducted HVAC, tied cleanly into building risers and inspected by the City of Miami.

04

Impact glass to building standard

Miami-Dade approved impact glazing wherever your association permits replacement, matched to the building standard and documented for HVHZ compliance.

05

Townhome remodels

Complete renovations for the townhouses on Brickell's low-rise blocks, where the scope grows to include roofs, stucco, and something towers lack: a yard.

Open-plan living and kitchen after a full renovation — architectural rendering

How we work

A remodel is a promise. We keep it in writing.

20+
Years building in South Florida
150+
Remodels and additions delivered
100%
Permitted and inspected work
1
Team accountable from estimate to warranty

AFixed scope, honest pricing

A detailed written scope before we start — so the number you sign is the number you pay, and changes are decisions, not surprises.

BA superintendent on site, daily

Your project is run by someone whose name you know, who answers the phone, and who walks the site every working day.

CBuilt to code, warrantied in writing

HVHZ-rated products, inspected phases, closed permits, and a written warranty when we hand back the keys.

How it goes

From first walk to final walk-through.

01

Walk-through & estimate

We visit, measure, listen, and come back with a real scope and a real number — not a teaser.

1–2 weeks
02

Design & permits

Drawings, engineering where needed, product approvals, and the permit package — filed and tracked by us.

4–10 weeks
03

Construction

Scheduled trades, daily supervision, weekly updates with photos, and inspections we prepare for and attend in person.

Per scope
04

Closeout & warranty

Punch list cleared, permits closed, documents handed over, warranty in writing. Then we leave it spotless.

1–2 weeks

FAQ

Straight answers.

Do I need a City of Miami permit to remodel my Brickell condo?
For anything beyond paint and decor, almost certainly yes. Moving walls, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC work all require permits from the City of Miami Building Department, pulled by a licensed contractor with signed and sealed drawings where the scope demands them. Association approval is a separate track with its own requirements. Unpermitted work surfaces at resale and in building records, and in the current inspection climate it is not worth the shortcut.
How long does association approval take in a Brickell tower?
It varies more by building than by project. Some management offices approve a complete package in a couple of weeks; others hold applications for a monthly board or architectural review cycle. The variable you control is completeness: drawings, insurance certificates, contractor license, and schedule submitted together, formatted the way the building asks. We run city permitting in parallel so the two clocks overlap instead of stacking.
Can I live in my unit during a full remodel?
For a true gut renovation, honestly, no. Most Brickell buildings would not let you try anyway, since demolition, dust control, and daily noise windows make the unit unlivable for weeks at a stretch. For phased or partial remodels we can sometimes sequence the work to keep a bedroom and bathroom functional. We will tell you which situation you are in before contracts are signed, not after.
What does a high-end condo remodel in Brickell cost?
It depends on scope, finish level, and how much of the unit's mechanical systems come with you. A full gut with custom millwork, stone, and new MEP runs several times the cost of a cosmetic refresh, and tower logistics add real labor hours that ground-floor work never sees. We are not the cheapest bid in Brickell and do not try to be. We price the job completely, in writing, before we start.
My building is going through its milestone inspection. Can I still remodel?
Usually yes, and sometimes it is the smart moment. If the association is planning structural or plumbing riser work, coordinating your renovation around it avoids opening finished ceilings twice. Boards in milestone or reserve-study mode do scrutinize renovation plans harder, so clean engineering and complete documents matter more than ever. We have worked in buildings mid-inspection and know how to keep your project off the board's worry list.

Contact

Let's walk your unit

Bring a floor plan and your building's renovation rules, or just the address. You'll get a straight assessment and a written estimate, in English o en español.

Office
Miami, FL
Hours
Mon–Fri, 8:00–18:00
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