We signed the lease in March and were serving customers in June. LNB walked the space with our drawings before we committed and told us exactly what the landlord's work letter did not cover.
Marisol Vega
Owner · Independent Cafe
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Commercial Remodeling Contractor
A commercial remodeling contractor is who you call when you do not need a new space, you need the one you are in to stop working against you, and you need to stay open while it happens.
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When The Space Is The Problem
Sometimes you don’t need a new space. You need the one you’re in to stop working against you.
LNB Construction remodels commercial interiors: offices that no longer fit how the team works, retail that looks a decade old, restaurants due for a brand refresh, medical suites adding operatories.
We do it in vacant space, and we do it in occupied space where the business has to keep running while we work. Most of ours are the second kind, which is a different job from building into an empty unit and priced like one.
- 20+
- Years In Business
- 250,000+
- Square Feet Built
- 50
- States On Site
- 17+
- Locations Delivered
What We Remodel
Six kinds of remodel and the scope that usually comes with each. Nearly all of it can be phased around a business that is still trading.
- Office Remodels
- Reconfiguring closed offices to open plan or back again, new conference and huddle rooms, updated lighting and ceilings, new flooring, break room refresh, data and AV upgrades.
- Retail Refreshes
- New fixture packages, storefront and entry updates, brand-standard repaints, lighting upgrades, POS relocations and updated back of house.
- Restaurant Remodels
- Front-of-house refresh, bar rebuilds, kitchen equipment replacement, hood and make-up air upgrades, ADA restroom corrections.
- Medical And Dental
- Adding operatories, converting exam rooms, imaging room lead lining, sterilization suite upgrades and waiting room refresh.
- Franchise Refresh Programs
- Franchisor-mandated remodel cycles, rolled out across multiple locations to one standard and one punch list.
- Common Area And Building
- Lobbies, corridors, restrooms, elevator lobbies and exterior entry upgrades, for landlords and for tenants with the whole floor.
Remodeling While You Stay Open
This is the part most contractors handle badly. Remodeling an occupied business is a logistics problem before it is a construction problem.
We phase it.
The work is broken into zones so the parts of the business that generate revenue keep generating it. You approve the phasing plan before we mobilise, not after the first wall comes down.
We work when you don’t.
Nights, weekends and early mornings where the schedule needs it and the lease allows it. That costs more per hour and less per week of lost revenue, and we show you both numbers so the choice is yours to make.
We contain the mess.
Temporary partitions, negative air where dust matters, protected paths of travel and a daily clean-down. In medical space, infection-control containment to the standard the practice is held to.
We keep you legal the whole way.
Egress, fire separation and ADA access have to stay compliant during construction, not only after it. That gets planned in the phasing rather than improvised on the day an inspector walks in.
Remodel Or Relocate?
Worth being honest about, because sometimes the answer is relocate and we will say so. You will know which one you are looking at during the walkthrough, before either of us has spent money.
Remodel makes sense when the bones are good.
The location is right, the lease has term left, the building works, and the problem is layout or finishes rather than square footage or mechanical systems at the end of their life.
Relocating makes sense when the building has run out.
You have outgrown the square footage, the mechanical systems are finished, or the landlord will not invest. No amount of interior work fixes any of those three.
Moving costs more than the moving truck.
Relocating buys you moving expense, downtime, new signage, an address change on everything you have ever printed, and a build-out at the other end anyway. That last item is the one people leave out of the comparison.
The code threshold is what catches people out.
In many jurisdictions, once a remodel exceeds a percentage of the building’s value you trigger full-code compliance on systems you were not planning to touch. We flag that at the walkthrough, because it moves a budget further than any finish selection will.
What A Remodel Costs
Less per square foot than a full build-out, because the infrastructure is already there. The range is wide, and these four decide where in it you land.
Whether you stay open.
Phasing, containment and after-hours work cost more per hour and less per week of lost revenue. We price both so the trade is yours to make rather than ours.
How much actually moves.
A cosmetic refresh is a fraction of a reconfiguration that relocates plumbing and walls. Paint and flooring are cheap. Moving a wet wall is not.
Code thresholds.
Past a percentage of building value, a remodel triggers full-code compliance on systems you were not planning to touch. That single line can outweigh every finish in the job.
What is behind the finishes.
Second-generation space hides undersized service, aging waste lines and conditions above the ceiling. On an older building we price investigative demo before we price the work.
From Empty Shell To Open Doors
Drag any handle. A remodel starts further along than these do, but the finished side is the same standard and the same trades.
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ShellFinished
ShellFinishedHow A Remodel Runs
The difference from a build-out is that the business is still trading, so the phasing plan is the first deliverable rather than a detail of the schedule.
Walkthrough And Scope
We walk it with the business running, because that is how the work will happen. The phasing plan comes out of that walk rather than out of a template.
Budget And Bid
A line-item number, with the after-hours premium priced separately so you can see what working nights costs against the revenue it protects.
Permits And Drawings
Drawings and permit for the areas being touched, with the accessibility and code thresholds identified before you commit rather than at plan review.
Construction
Zone by zone. Containment up, egress and fire separation maintained, disruptive trades outside your hours, daily clean-down, revenue-generating areas open.
Punch List And Handover
Each zone punched and handed back as it finishes, so the space comes back to you in pieces instead of all at the end.
What Owners Say Afterwards
The part that matters is not the bid. It is whether the space opened when they said it would.
Our lender wanted G702s and a schedule of values, not a lump sum. LNB billed the way the bank expected from the first draw, so nothing stalled in underwriting.
Dev Ramaswamy
Franchisee · Fitness Franchise
Four units in three states and every one of them looks like the prototype. That is the part I could never get from hiring a different contractor in each market.
Alicia Brenner
Director of Development · Multi-Site Retail Brand
One superintendent, one number to call, weekly progress against the schedule. We were paying rent on a dark store and they knew it.
Tomasz Kowal
Managing Partner · Retail Group
The permit run in our jurisdiction is where these projects usually die. They tracked it and told us where it sat every week instead of going quiet.
Renée Okafor
Practice Manager · Dental Practice
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Commercial Remodeling FAQ
Can you remodel while we stay open?
Yes, and most of our remodels are done that way. We phase the work by zone and shift the disruptive trades to nights or weekends.
How much does a commercial remodel cost?
Less per square foot than a full build-out, because the infrastructure is already there. The range is wide though: a cosmetic refresh is a fraction of a reconfiguration that moves plumbing and walls.
Will a remodel trigger code upgrades?
Sometimes. Most jurisdictions have thresholds, based on scope, cost or area, that trigger accessibility, egress or energy code compliance for the whole space. We identify those at the walkthrough because they can materially change the budget.
Do you handle franchisor-mandated remodel programs?
Yes, including multi-location rollouts held to a single standard across every site in the program.
What is the difference between remodeling and renovation?
In practice they are used interchangeably. If there is a distinction, remodeling changes what the space is or how it is laid out, and renovation restores or updates what is already there.
Next step
You Signed The Lease. Let's Get It Open.
Send us the space and the brand standards. You'll get a walkthrough scheduled inside 48 hours and a real number. Not a range, not a “starting at.”
No obligation. No pressure. If we're not the right builder for your project, we'll tell you on the call.
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