Whole-home remodeling behind the guardhouse.

Golden Beach runs about a mile along A1A with the Atlantic on one side, the Intracoastal on the other, and fewer than 400 single-family homes in between. No condos, no commercial, nowhere to trade up to without leaving town. So owners here remodel deeply instead of moving: cottages from the 1920s founding era, mid-century ranches on Golden Beach Drive and the Parkways, and substantial waterfront houses on Ocean Boulevard and the gated islands all eventually get taken back to structure and rebuilt around how the family actually lives.

Permitting runs through the Town of Golden Beach Building Department, which does things its own way: online submittal, contractor registration with the Town, a first inspection due within days of permit issuance, and larger projects that can go before the Building Regulation Advisory Board. Construction hours are 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, Monday through Friday, never weekends. Because the entire town is a barrier island, flood-zone elevations and FEMA substantial-improvement math shape what an older house can absorb, and every window, door, and roof assembly needs Miami-Dade product approvals.

Over 150 remodels and additions in more than 20 years of South Florida building, and PGX Builders Group pulled a permit for each of them. In Golden Beach that translates to a fixed written scope before the first wall opens, a supervisor on site every working day, and a jobsite kept exactly as the Town requires: fenced, screened, swept, and silent by six. In a town this small, your neighbors will judge us by your driveway. We plan for that.