Commercial TI · Phoenix metro

You're paying rent on a space you can't open yet.

We prepare tenant improvement drawing sets for office, retail, restaurant, medical, and salon build-outs — then submit to the city and work the corrections until the permit is issued. Because every week in plan review is a week of rent on an empty room.

Complete TI sets built for first-submittal approval

ADA and occupancy compliance handled

Change of use and change of occupancy

Health department coordination for food service

We submit, track, and answer every city comment

100+Projects permitted

40+AZ jurisdictions

48hrSite visits

Get a scope and price

Tell us the space and the use. We'll come back with a scope, a flat price, and a realistic permit timeline for that jurisdiction.

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We'll look at the space and the use and come back with a scope, a flat price, and a realistic permit timeline. If the clock is tight, call us and we'll move it up.

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What we prepare

A set the plan reviewer can approve.

Commercial review is stricter than residential and the comment cycles are longer. The fix is a complete first submittal — which is mostly about knowing what that jurisdiction asks for before you send it.

Life safety and egress plans — occupant load, exit widths, travel distance

ADA compliance — restrooms, clearances, approach, path of travel

Floor plans and demo plans for the build-out

Reflected ceiling, power, and finish plans as required

Occupancy classification and change-of-use documentation

Mechanical coordination including Manual J/S/D where it applies

Health department plan sets for food service

Architect or engineer stamps coordinated when your jurisdiction requires them

The real cost

The permit isn't the expensive part. The delay is.

Most TI projects don't get held up by a design problem. They get held up by a set that was missing something, and by nobody watching the submittal while the rent clock runs.

Correction cycles compound

Each round back through review can add weeks. A set built for the jurisdiction the first time is the single biggest lever on your open date.

Change of use is its own project

Turning retail into a restaurant, or office into a clinic, can trigger occupancy, egress, ADA, and grease or ventilation requirements that weren't there before. We flag that before you sign, not after.

Somebody has to chase it

We track the submittal through the portal and respond to comments directly. You get status updates instead of having to learn the city's system yourself.

How it works

From walkthrough to permit in hand.

Walkthrough

Within 48 hours. We measure the existing space and identify what the use change will trigger.

Scope & flat price

A written scope, a fixed fee, and a realistic permit timeline for that specific jurisdiction.

Drawing set

We prepare the TI package and coordinate any engineering or stamps the project requires.

Your review

You and your contractor see it before the city does.

Submittal

We file it and track it through commercial plan review.

Corrections & approval

Comments come to us. We turn them around fast and resubmit until it's issued.

Questions

What business owners ask us.

Often, yes — particularly when the work affects egress, occupancy, accessibility, or life-safety systems, and the threshold varies by jurisdiction. We prepare the drawing set and coordinate the licensed architect or engineer stamp your project requires, so it's one scope and one point of contact rather than you sourcing a second firm mid-project.

A simple TI can be a few weeks. Larger or more complex build-outs commonly run six to ten weeks through review, and change-of-use projects sit at the longer end. We give you the honest range for your jurisdiction and scope up front — and the way to shorten it is a complete first submittal, not expediting.

Food service adds a health department review alongside the building permit, plus grease interception, ventilation and hood requirements, finish schedules, and often a heavier mechanical scope. If the space wasn't previously food service, treat it as a change of use. We coordinate the health submittal with the building set so they aren't fighting each other.

Sometimes, sometimes not. A white-box or shell space still needs a TI permit for your specific use, and "previously permitted" doesn't carry over to a different occupancy. Send us the lease exhibit and any existing drawings and we'll tell you what you're actually starting from before you commit.

Not on this side of the business — SOKO Designs handles the drawings and the permitting. We work alongside whichever contractor you're using, and if you don't have one yet we can point you in a direction without any obligation.

No — it's common, especially in older buildings. We field-measure and produce as-builts as part of the scope, which becomes the base for the TI set.