Open permits, closed before closing.

Brickell permit problems usually arrive with the deed. A kitchen was opened up in a Brickell Avenue tower two owners ago, a bathroom moved in a Brickell Key unit, glass swapped on a West Brickell townhome over a long weekend, and somewhere in that history a permit was pulled and never finalized, or never pulled at all. None of it shows at a showing. All of it shows in the city's permit record, which is exactly what a title company or a lender's underwriter reads before a Brickell closing funds. The owner inherits that file along with the view.

Brickell is City of Miami, so permits are applied for, reviewed and inspected by the City of Miami Building Department at Miami Riverside Center on Southwest 2nd Avenue, filed electronically through the city's iBuild portal. Zoning questions run through Miami 21. Windows, doors and roofing need current Miami-Dade product approvals, because the county sits entirely inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. Buildings other than houses and duplexes carry county recertification, which now begins earlier than the old forty-year mark, and condominium buildings of three habitable stories and up carry milestone inspections and structural integrity reserve studies on top of it.

PGX Builders Group has spent more than 20 years building in South Florida, with 150-plus remodels and additions delivered and every one of them permitted and inspected. We pull permits under our own license, CGC1539072, and bring in the engineer, architect or product documentation a Brickell submittal needs rather than leaving an owner to assemble a package alone. The written scope comes before demolition. A supervisor is on site every day the job moves. Inspections are met by someone who can answer for the work, and the file is not finished until the record reads closed.