Kitchens worth the ocean view.

Kitchens in this city come with context. Tower residences at Jade Signature, Muse, and the Ritz-Carlton Residences were delivered with perfectly respectable builder kitchens that owners routinely replace with something personal — a larger island, integrated European appliances, stone with actual movement. In Golden Shores and on Atlantic Isle, the kitchen is often the last original room in a 1950s or '60s house, walled off from the water view the lot was bought for. Both jobs end the same way: a kitchen designed around the person cooking, not around a floor plan somebody else chose.

The City of Sunny Isles Beach Building Department reviews kitchen renovation permits digitally, and the drawings matter. Relocating appliances, gas, or plumbing in a tower means working within the building's risers and stacks, with association sign-off secured before the city's. Anything touching the envelope carries Miami-Dade product-approval requirements for the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. In condo buildings, slab penetrations and wet-area changes get reviewed closely — which is exactly how it should be when your new drain line runs above someone else's dining room.

Shop drawings for the cabinetry, slabs approved in person before cutting, and a supervisor on site daily, including the morning the stone rides the service elevator: that is how PGX runs a kitchen. The scope is fixed in writing before demolition, and one licensed team owns everything from rough-in to final inspection, so the lighting plan, the millwork, and the inspection card all agree with each other.