Accomplishing a Time-Sensitive Buildout

Roherty: “It’s three floors, and the unique challenge is we will have them occupying one floor while we’re working on the others; that’s how we’ll pick up time.”

SAN DIEGO—When tackling a time-sensitive buildout, working within a tenant’s lease constraints can be challenging, Pacific Building Group’s president Jim Roherty tells GlobeSt.com. The firm has been hired to complete a buildout for Renovate America, a San Diego company that helps homeowners make qualified home energy and efficiency improvements. Currently in two offices, Renovate America, creator of the HERO® Program, has signed a seven-year lease on a 160,000-square-foot space in the Rancho Vista Corporate Center in Rancho Bernardo.

Landlord Swift Real Estate Partners is spending approximately $12 million on the building’s interior space and $6.6 million on the construction of an additional 10,000-square-foot café building and other improvements. PBG will complete the interior buildout and an adjacent 10,000-square-foot building for the company’s 670 employees. Joining the 33-year-old general contracting firm is architect Gensler.