Old house, new everything behind it.

Hollywood Lakes is the part of Joseph Wesley Young's 1920s plan you can still read on the ground: two dredged lakes flanking Hollywood Boulevard, president-named streets running east to the Intracoastal, and Mediterranean Revival houses with barrel tile and arched porches sitting a block from postwar ranches. Owners along North Lake Drive, Harrison Street and Madison Street rarely knock these down. They gut them instead, opening compartmented front rooms, replacing every mechanical system in the building, and swapping jalousies for impact glass, all without changing what the street looks like from the sidewalk.

The permit comes from the City of Hollywood's Building Division inside Development Services, not from the county. Behind that sits the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals, which hears appeals of building and fire code officials' decisions, issues formal interpretations of disputed code sections, and backs Broward's own administrative chapter of the Florida Building Code. Most of the neighborhood sits inside the Lakes Area Historic Multiple Resource Listing District or the Hollywood Lakes Historic District, so exterior work on a covered property needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Historic Preservation Board. Broward sits in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so windows, doors and roofing need HVHZ approvals.

This is our twentieth-plus year building in South Florida, with over 150 remodels and additions delivered and every one permitted and inspected. On these blocks that means a fixed written scope signed before the first wall comes down, a supervisor on site each working day, original terrazzo and millwork protected before demolition rather than apologized for afterward, and a job site that leaves a narrow lakefront street passable for your neighbors. One licensed team carries the work from estimate through final inspection and warranty.