i30 Builders · Greenville, TX
What a commercial remodel costs in Greenville
Greenville has real downtown stock and real highway retail, and they build nothing alike. The rate card is the same for both. What moves a Greenville number is which of the two you signed, and in the downtown case, how much of the building has to be brought up to current code before your scope starts.
$7.5K to $150K+ · Permits and inspections in the price · Written scope before deposit
Published Rates
The rate card, and it is the same in Greenville as everywhere else we work
These rates do not move by city. Labor and material cost about the same across Dallas-Fort Worth and East Texas, so quoting Greenville differently would be a markup, not a rate. What changes locally is which scopes come up, how long review takes, and what the building you signed is hiding. That is the rest of this page.
These are budgeting ranges, not a quote. Scope moves the number more than square footage does, which is why each tier is a range rather than a rate.
Paint and flooring refresh
$10 to $25/SF
$7,500 minimum
Cosmetic update where the layout and the systems stay exactly where they are.
Light office TI
$35 to $65/SF
$15,000 minimum
A layout change in a space that already works: some walls move, systems mostly stay.
Standard office TI
$65 to $95/SF
$35,000 minimum
A full office fit-out: private offices, conference rooms, a break area, new finishes throughout.
Higher-end office TI
$95 to $140/SF
$60,000 minimum
The same fit-out with a finish package and detailing that a client-facing floor needs.
White box from cold shell
$55 to $85/SF
$35,000 minimum
Bringing a cold dark shell up to a leasable vanilla box for the next tenant.
Retail refresh
$15 to $38/SF
$10,000 minimum
A sales floor updated between tenants or between brand cycles.
Standard retail build-out
$65 to $105/SF
$35,000 minimum
A retail bay fitted out for a new tenant, including back-of-house.
Commercial restroom refresh
$8,000 to $12,000 each
Finishes and accessories replaced with the fixtures and plumbing left in place.
Single-user ADA restroom, full build
$18,000 to $30,000 each
A compliant single-user restroom built out, including the plumbing that gets it there.
Local Cost Drivers
What moves a Greenville number up or down
Downtown buildings
Hunt County downtown stock is old enough that a change of use can bring an accessible restroom, an electrical service upgrade and mechanical replacement into scope before a single finish item is touched. That work is often larger than the build-out itself, and it is entirely invisible on a floor plan.
Highway retail
The newer retail on the highway corridors is predictable: fewer unknowns, less remediation, more straightforward permitting. It is usually the cheaper build for the same use even when the rent is higher, which is a trade worth doing on paper before signing.
Core market, not outlying
Hunt County is a market we work weekly rather than drive to. There is no distance premium in the number and no treating the job as filler between metroplex work, which on a mid-size job is a larger share of the total than owners expect.
Change of use
Greenville spaces turn over between uses often. Retail becoming clinical or office becoming food brings accessibility, mechanical capacity and sometimes egress work into scope that the prior tenant never faced. It is the usual reason a number comes back above the per-square-foot math.
Hidden conditions are excluded by default and surfaced as a change order: rot, mold, asbestos, lead, water-compromised framing, and code corrections unrelated to the scope. Nothing is absorbed quietly and nothing is discovered on the invoice.
Worked Examples
Three Greenville scopes, priced
Each figure is the rate above applied to the floor area, not a number picked to look good. The standard behind it is named so you can check the arithmetic.
1,800 SF · Greenville
Highway retail refresh
$48,000
Paint, flooring, lighting and storefront refresh with the layout untouched. Mid-window; the existing service carried the lighting.
Standard: Retail refresh. At this size that standard produces $27,000 to $68,400.
1,500 SF · Greenville
Downtown office reconfiguration
$72,000
Walls moved in an older building with the systems left alone, flooring and paint throughout. Mid-window because nothing needed replacing behind the walls.
Standard: Light office TI. At this size that standard produces $52,500 to $97,500.
2,000 SF · Greenville
Downtown change of use
$158,000
Accessible restroom built, service upgraded and mechanical replaced, then the office build-out on top. The building drove this, not the floor area.
Standard: Standard office TI. At this size that standard produces $130,000 to $190,000.
What The Number Covers
Included, excluded, and priced separately
These are budgeting ranges, not a quote. Scope moves the number more than square footage does, which is why each tier is a range rather than a rate.
Included
- Labor
- Materials listed in the written scope
- Permits and standard city inspections
- Project management
- Mobilization
- Protection of adjacent areas
- Cleanup
- One-year workmanship warranty
Priced separately, named in the written scope
- FF&E and equipment
- Design and engineering
- Landlord fees
- Health-department plan review fees
- The category adders listed on this page
Hidden conditions are excluded by default and surfaced as a change order: rot, mold, asbestos, lead, water-compromised framing, and code corrections unrelated to the scope. Nothing is absorbed quietly and nothing is discovered on the invoice.
Common Greenville adders, with prices
These are the line items that most often sit outside the base range. Most scopes trigger none of them. They are listed with numbers so a reader who does trigger one is not left assuming the worst.
What moves the number
| Adder | Range | When it applies |
|---|
Phased or after-hours scheduling. Work sequenced around an operating business. Priced as a multiplier, typically 1.2x to 1.4x on the labor portion, rather than a fixed dollar amount.
Recent Work
What the finish level looks like.
Greenville Cost Questions
What owners here ask before they sign
Is downtown Greenville cheaper to build than the highway corridor?
Often the opposite, even though the rent is usually lower. A change of use in older downtown stock commonly brings an accessible restroom, an electrical service upgrade and mechanical replacement into scope before any of your finishes. The highway retail is newer and more predictable. The rent saving and the build-out cost should be compared together, before the lease.
What does a Greenville office refresh run?
Paint and flooring refresh publishes at $10 to $25 per square foot with a $7,500 floor, for work where the layout and systems do not move. Once walls move you are into light tenant improvement at $35 to $65 with a $15,000 floor. The step between those two bands is the biggest single jump on the card.
Do you charge extra to come out to Hunt County?
No. This is a core market we work weekly rather than an outlying territory with a drive priced into it. A contractor who treats Greenville as the edge of a service area either pads the number or staffs the job with whoever is free, and one of those shows up in the price while the other shows up in the schedule.
What happens if the building needs code work my scope did not include?
Code corrections unrelated to your scope are excluded by default and separately quoted after inspection. Work that your change of use actually triggers is in the scope from the start, because it is foreseeable on the walk. The distinction matters and it is written into the document rather than argued later.
How long does a Greenville job take?
Design to permit approval averages three to four weeks across our markets, then field time depends on scope. The written scope carries a real completion date before you pay a deposit, with review time inside it. A date that assumes instant permitting is not a date.
Get a Greenville number for your actual space
Call (469) 721-0146, i30 Builders or send the space and the timeline. You get a written scope with a price and a completion date before any deposit. We respond within 1 business day.
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