Rebuild the house, keep the address.

Most of the good bones in Pompano Beach were poured between roughly 1955 and 1975: concrete block ranch houses on dredged canal lots in Garden Isles, Cypress Cove, Snug Harbor and Santa Barbara Shores, terrazzo underfoot, and a floor plan organized around a formal dining room nobody has eaten in since the Ford administration. Old Pompano holds the older frame and Mediterranean stock near the downtown grid. Owners here rarely want a different house. They want this one taken back to the block, reorganized around the water, and rewired for how a family actually lives now.

Your application goes to the City of Pompano Beach Development Services Department, Building Permitting and Inspections, at City Hall on West Atlantic Boulevard, filed on the Broward County Uniform Building Permit Application with trade checklists for structural, plumbing, electrical and mechanical work. That is the form every Broward city uses, because code administration here sits under the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals, which hears appeals of building official decisions, issues formal interpretations, and reviews Broward's code amendments. Broward is inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so windows, doors and roof systems need a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance or Florida Product Approval. Demolition also brings a county asbestos submittal.

That approach comes from more than twenty years of South Florida building and 150-plus delivered remodels and additions, all of it permitted and inspected. On a Pompano Beach project that means a fixed written scope before the first wall comes down, a superintendent here whenever the crew is, hard protection over the floors and stair treads that are staying, and one accountable team from estimate through final inspection and warranty. You get a schedule you can plan a move around and a single number to call when you want to change something.