Fitness Studio Build-Out Cost in DFW

Studio refresh $40 to $80/SF. Fitness studio, open plan from shell $60 to $110/SF. Showers and locker rooms are an adder rather than a tier, $25,000 to $60,000, because drainage, waterproofing and ventilation do not scale with floor area. Permits and standard city inspections are in the range; FF&E, design and engineering, and landlord fees are priced separately and named in the written scope.

Because they add three trades at once: supply and drain plumbing, floor drainage that usually means cutting slab, and the ventilation wet areas require to pass inspection. A studio without wet areas is one of the cheaper commercial scopes per square foot. Adding them moves it closer to medical pricing.

On an upper floor, often yes. Free-weight areas and heavy equipment banks concentrate load in a way most office floors were not designed for. Ground-floor slab space usually avoids it entirely, which is worth knowing before you sign a lease upstairs.

Yes. We phase around your timetable, work after hours where the scope allows, and reset the floor nightly so classes run the next morning. That protection carries a multiplier and is stated as its own line in the scope.

Yes, written scope, locked at signing. Change orders happen only if you request a scope change, and they are priced and approved in writing first. Hidden conditions behind walls are excluded by default and surfaced as change orders if found.

All i30 Builders full-project prices include normal mobilization, ordinary protection of adjacent areas, labor, standard materials listed in the scope, permits and standard city inspections, project coordination, normal cleanup, and a one-year workmanship warranty on the listed scope.