Retail Remodeling
CMIC delivers the right layout and strategy to refresh your retail space, minimize downtime, and improve your bottom line.
Concept of a Refreshed Model
A refresh or remodel is one of the most effective ways to increase sales and boost your bottom line. While it often requires a significant investment, the returns can be substantial when the project is planned and executed properly. CMIC has nearly three decades of experience in retail construction and has completed numerous remodeling projects across the country.
Scope like this is usually priced alongside our Fixture & Graphic Installation team, so estimating, permitting and field work all stay under one contract with one accountable point of contact.
Scope Of Work
What Is Included
Every line below is handled in house or by a pre-qualified trade partner under our contract, so nothing falls between scopes and nothing shows up later as an unexplained change order.
- Value Engineering
- Resource Optimization
- Industry Safety Standards
- Alternative Materials
- Flexible Scheduling
- Open Store Construction
- Phased Construction
- Program Rollout Management
- Fixture & Display Installation
- Lighting & Signage Upgrades
- Flooring & Paint Refresh
- Facade Improvements
Our Approach
When the drawings still need work at this stage, our Tenant Improvements group resolves it before the budget is locked, which is the last point where a change is still free to make.
Benefits of Remodeling
Studies show the look and feel of a store plays a key role in boosting sales and revenue over the long term. A remodel enhances the in-store experience, attracting new customers and encouraging existing ones to visit more often. Remodeling can influence purchase decisions, raise customer satisfaction, and create a positive perception of your store.
- Updated layouts that guide traffic toward higher margin merchandise
- Refreshed interiors that raise dwell time and repeat store visits
- Improved customer perception that supports pricing and promotions
Cutting Costs
Our value engineering approach helps you save money and get more value from your investment. We use construction resources optimally, adhere to industry safety standards, and recommend alternative materials and technologies to minimize costs upfront and long-term.
- Alternates priced and compared before the budget is locked
- Long lead materials ordered early to avoid premium freight costs
- Lifecycle costs weighed alongside first cost on every substitution
Minimizing Downtime
Lost revenue from downtime can be too much for retailers to bear. We help you avoid this through flexible scheduling, open store construction, and phased construction that causes minimal disruption, keeping your project on time and within budget.
- Night and weekend phasing that keeps your doors open for business
- Temporary barricades, dust control, and safe customer walkways
- Look ahead schedules published weekly for your store operations team
Program Rollout and Management
If you have a large retail chain and want to remodel multiple locations at once, our program rollout and management team can take over the entire project, hiring subcontractors, obtaining permits, and coordinating designers and builders from inception to completion.
- One team hiring subcontractors and pulling permits in every market
- Uniform scope and finish standards repeated across each location
- Consolidated reporting for budget, schedule, and store turnover dates
Have a Project in Mind?
CMIC offers a one-stop solution for all your refresh and remodeling needs nationwide. Connect with CMIC today to get started.
If you want a single team carrying the project from concept through closeout, start with Shopping Center Construction and we will build the rest of the package around it.
Projects We Have Delivered
A sample of completed retail remodeling work from our field teams, from structure through final finishes, handed over ready to open.
View Full PortfolioFrequently Asked Questions
These are the questions owners, developers and facility teams ask most often before awarding retail remodeling work. If your question is not covered here, our project team will answer it directly against your drawings, site conditions and target opening date.
Can You Remodel a Store Without Closing It?
Yes. Retail remodels are phased with temporary walls, protected customer routes and night work so the store keeps trading through the project.
Get a Real Budget
and Schedule
Tell Us The Site, The Square Footage And The Opening Date You Are Working Toward. A CMIC Project Lead Will Walk You Through Scope, Permitting, Cost Drivers And A Realistic Construction Schedule.