
Permitting & Compliance · Bal Harbour, FL
Permits handled, nothing left open.
Permitting and compliance for Bal Harbour houses and condo residences: applications filed with the Village Building Department, Architectural Review Board approvals, HVHZ product approvals, phased inspections, and old open permits closed out by a licensed general contractor.
Permitting & Compliance in Bal Harbour
How work gets approved in Bal Harbour.
Nothing in Bal Harbour is far from the ocean or from a building file. The gated estate section along Bal Bay Drive, Bal Cross Drive and Camden Drive holds mid-century and Mediterranean houses that have been renovated repeatedly since the 1950s, while the Collins Avenue towers, from the Plaza of Bal Harbour to Oceana, hold residences that have been reworked more than once since their buildings opened. Every one of those rounds left a record, or should have. Impact windows, a kitchen gut, a moved wall, a re-roof, a seawall repair, an air conditioning changeout: all of it is permit work, and some of it never was.
The authority here is the Bal Harbour Village Building Department, which runs its plan review at Village Hall on 96th Street and takes applications in person. Since 2021 the Village has performed concurrent review with Miami-Dade County, so village and county comments come back on the same drawings. Exterior work needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Architectural Review Board before plan review begins. This is a High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so openings and roofing need a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance or equivalent Florida Product Approval on file, and much of the village sits in AE flood zones, where FEMA substantial-improvement limits can reshape a renovation before it starts.
PGX Builders Group has been building in South Florida for more than twenty years, with over 150 remodels and additions delivered and every one of them permitted and inspected. On a Bal Harbour compliance job that shows up as sequence: architect, engineer and product data coordinated before anything is filed, plan review comments answered by us rather than forwarded to you, and inspections called in an order that keeps trades working instead of waiting. The same licensed team, Lic. CGC1539072, owns the file from the first application to the final sign-off. We do not shortcut requirements. We take the friction out of meeting them.

Where we work in Bal Harbour
Elsewhere in Bal Harbour? Call us — if it's in Miami-Dade or Broward, we probably build there.
What's included
The compliance work, item by item.
Some owners come to us before design starts. Others come with a notice from the Village or a title company two weeks before closing. This covers both.
Inherited permits, cleared
Old and expired permits traced through Village and county records, taken over under our license, corrected, re-inspected and signed off before a sale or refinance stalls.
Complete first submittals
Drawings, product data and applications assembled and filed at Village Hall, Architectural Review Board approval handled first when the exterior is involved, comments answered by us.
Oceanfront glazing approvals
Windows, doors, garage doors and roofing specified with a valid Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance, and the installation detailed to match what that approval actually covers.
Inspections in the right order
Each phase called when the work is genuinely ready, so an inspector's first visit is also the last one and the schedule holds.
Engineer-directed building repairs
Structural, concrete, balcony and electrical repairs your engineer's recertification or milestone report calls for, built under permit and documented for the association and the Village.

How we work
A remodel is a promise. We keep it in writing.
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.
Walk-through & estimate
We visit, measure, listen, and come back with a real scope and a real number — not a teaser.
1–2 weeksDesign & permits
Drawings, engineering where needed, product approvals, and the permit package — filed and tracked by us.
4–10 weeksConstruction
Scheduled trades, daily supervision, weekly updates with photos, and inspections we prepare for and attend in person.
Per scopeCloseout & warranty
Punch list cleared, permits closed, documents handed over, warranty in writing. Then we leave it spotless.
1–2 weeksFAQ
Straight answers.
There is an open permit on my property from a previous owner. What happens now?
What actually needs a permit in Bal Harbour?
Can windows or a renovation done without a permit be legalized after the fact?
Our condo board received a recertification or milestone inspection report. Can PGX do the repairs?
How long does permitting take, and what does it cost?
Contact
Start with the building file
A permit number, a violation notice, or a plan you simply want filed correctly. We'll tell you what it takes, in English o en español.