A century of work, one record.

Rio Vista has been building on the same streets since 1920, and a century of owners leaves a paper trail. The Mediterranean houses on Ponce de Leon Drive and Cordova Road and the postwar ranches out on the Rio Vista Isles have all been re-roofed, rewired, re-windowed, added to and screened in, sometimes with a permit and sometimes on a quiet weekend. An unfinished permit does not expire quietly. It stays attached to the address until somebody finishes it, and owners here usually meet theirs with a buyer already under contract.

Rio Vista sits inside the City of Fort Lauderdale, so permits are filed with Building Services and plans and revisions move through the LauderBuild portal. Broward then adds a layer above the city: the county Board of Rules and Appeals maintains Broward's amendments to the Florida Building Code and certifies the building officials and inspectors who will review your job. Broward is also inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so windows, doors and roof assemblies need approved products documented in the file. There is no design-review board in the way here, though much of the neighborhood sits low enough that flood review joins the conversation early.

The distinction that matters is that PGX is a general contractor, not a permit runner. Closing an old file usually means finishing real work rather than filing forms: replacing something that failed, opening a wall so an inspector can see what is behind it, obtaining an engineer's letter for work already buried. We read the permit history first and tell you which of those you are facing. Scope goes in writing, a supervisor is on site when the inspector arrives, and our schedule ends at a signed final inspection. 20-plus years in South Florida, more than 150 remodels and additions delivered, every one permitted and inspected. Lic. CGC1539072.