Commercial contractor in Utah County & Salt Lake
Grandview Contractors handles tenant improvements, build-outs, commercial renovation, and ground-up coordination under a Utah DOPL B100 license. We plan around your operating hours, your landlord’s work letter, and your city’s permitting timeline — because a commercial project that ignores those three things is already late.
Your business hours are not our construction hours
A commercial project succeeds or fails on constraints that never show up in the drawings. Before we price anything, we work through five of them with you:
- Business hours vs. construction hours. Demolition, core drilling, and anything loud gets scheduled before you open, after you close, or on weekends. Dust barriers, negative air, and daily cleanup keep the parts of your space that stay open actually usable.
- Landlord work letters. If you lease, your landlord’s work letter and TI allowance define what the building will pay for, what it won’t, and what requires building-management approval. We read it before we scope, so the estimate matches what you can actually spend.
- Permitting timelines. Plan review runs differently across our service area. Fast-growth cities like Lehi, Saratoga Springs, and Eagle Mountain are processing heavy volume; established departments in Provo, Orem, and Salt Lake City have their own review queues and revision cycles. We build the real review time into the schedule instead of pretending it away.
- Occupied-space phasing. Restaurants that can’t close, offices that can’t relocate, retail that can’t lose a season — we phase the work area by area so the business keeps running while the space changes around it.
- Inspections. Commercial work carries more of them: framing, fire barriers, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and where structural steel is involved, welded-connection inspections tied to Wasatch fault seismic requirements. We sequence inspections into the schedule so the job never sits idle waiting on one.
We see dependencies before they become delays.
What we handle for commercial clients
Tenant improvements
Suite reconfigurations, finish upgrades, and code-driven improvements coordinated with your landlord and building management, from demising walls to final inspection.
Build-outs
Retail, restaurant, and office build-outs from vanilla shell to open-for-business — including health-department coordination for food service and ADA-compliant layouts.
Commercial renovation
Updating occupied or between-tenant spaces: storefronts and door systems, interiors, restrooms, and accessibility upgrades, planned around lease dates and operating schedules.
Renovation & build-out servicesGround-up coordination
New commercial construction managed under one B100 license — site work, structure, envelope, and trade coordination from footings to certificate of occupancy.
New construction servicesStructural steel, welding, and concrete flatwork are core scopes for us. For MEP scopes — electrical, plumbing, HVAC, fire suppression — Grandview holds the contract and manages licensed trade contractors; we coordinate, sequence, and quality-check their work within your project. Larger or multi-phase projects can also run through our planning and project management side as construction management or preconstruction engagements.
How commercial work differs from residential in our process
The construction is often similar. The paperwork, accountability, and sequencing are not. Here’s what changes when the client is a business:
- Documentation. Commercial clients get the paper trail the arrangement demands: written scopes tied to plan sets, schedule updates, documented change orders, RFIs where a design team is involved, and closeout packages with permits, inspection records, and warranties.
- Insurance requirements. Landlords and property managers routinely require certificates of insurance and additional-insured endorsements before anyone sets foot on site. We’re licensed and insured, and we handle COI requests as routine paperwork, not a scramble. Our DOPL license is verifiable at dopl.utah.gov.
- Lien waivers. Progress payments on commercial work run against conditional and unconditional lien waivers — from us and from every trade contractor we manage. Your lender or landlord gets clean waiver documentation with each draw.
- Code and plan review. Commercial projects are reviewed against current Utah-adopted code for occupancy classification, egress, fire separation, and accessibility. Change of use — say, office to restaurant — triggers requirements that a residential remodel never sees. We flag those in preconstruction, not after plan review bounces.
- Stakeholders. A residential job has one decision-maker. A commercial job may have a tenant, a landlord, a property manager, a franchisor, and a lender. We map who approves what at kickoff so decisions get made once, in writing.
Questions commercial clients actually ask
How long does a tenant improvement take?
A straightforward TI — new walls, finishes, lighting in an existing suite — typically runs 6 to 12 weeks of construction after permits. Add 3 to 8 weeks up front for design and plan review, longer in high-volume cities. Restaurant conversions and structural changes extend both. We give you a dated schedule before you sign anything.
Can you work while our business stays open?
Yes, with honest trade-offs. We phase the work, contain dust with sealed barriers and negative air, schedule loud work outside your operating hours, and keep egress paths clear and code-compliant throughout. Occupied-space work costs somewhat more and takes longer than an empty suite — we’ll show you both numbers so you can decide.
Who handles permits for commercial work?
We do. Grandview prepares the submittal, files with the city, responds to plan-review comments, and schedules every inspection through final. You’ll see the real review timeline for your specific city in the project schedule — and for anything unusual, we verify requirements with that city’s building department before we commit dates.
Who owns the design — do we need our own architect?
It depends on scope. Most commercial permits require stamped drawings from a licensed architect or engineer. You can bring your own design team and we’ll build to their documents, or we can bring design partners into the project and coordinate them. Either way, the design contract and the liability behind the stamp stay with the licensed design professional.
Tell us what you’re working on
Send us the work letter, the plans, or just the problem. We reply within a couple of hours during business hours — a day at most — with a straight read on scope, sequence, and budget before anyone commits to anything. If you manage buildings rather than occupy one, see how we work with property managers.