Light-commercial work rewards the habits we built in residential: documented scopes, honest schedules, and a licensed GC who answers the phone. Mabrey Construction takes on select tenant upfits, build-outs, and small ground-up commercial projects across the Triangle — chosen for fit, staffed properly, and delivered on the timeline your lease or opening date actually depends on.
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Mabrey Construction takes on select light-commercial work across the Triangle — tenant upfits, office and retail build-outs, and small ground-up projects — run with the same licensed-GC discipline as our residential work: fixed scopes in writing, county permitting handled, and one accountable team. Commercial work is relationship-driven and capacity-gated: we take projects we can staff properly rather than everything that rings the phone.
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If you have a space, a timeline, and drawings or the need for them, the conversation starts with a walkthrough.
We walk the space, read the drawings or scope the need for them, and get honest about the timeline your business is counting on.
The build-out is priced as an itemized fixed scope — allowances, exclusions, and schedule stated before signatures.
Trades sequence under one GC, inspections run on schedule, and the project ends at certificate of occupancy — keys and opening day intact.
- Tenant upfits and white-box build-outs for office, retail, and service space
- Interior demolition, framing, and reconfiguration to your floor plan
- Coordination with your architect, or design-build where scope fits
- Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing subcontractors run under one GC
- ADA, egress, and life-safety requirements built in, not bolted on
- County and municipal permitting managed through certificate of occupancy
- Schedules written around lease dates and opening days, then kept
- A fixed-scope contract with changes priced in writing before they happen
Is Your Build-Out at Risk? Signals You Need One GC.
If any of these sound familiar, book the walkthrough. We read the space and the drawings, get honest about the timeline your lease depends on, and price the build-out as a fixed, itemized scope — in writing.
The Lease Clock Is the Real Client
- Schedule written into the contract
- Long-lead items ordered at signing
- Inspections sequenced with the county early
Reading the Space: Upfit vs. White Box
- Existing systems assessed, not assumed
- Drawings reconciled against the real space
- Scope priced on what is actually there
Every Trade Under One GC
- MEP and fire sequenced as one plan
- One name accountable for every pass
- No vendor-to-vendor finger-pointing
ADA, Egress, and Life-Safety: Built In, Not Bolted On
- Accessibility shaped into the first layout
- Egress and exit paths planned, not patched
- Inspection surprises engineered away
Working With Your Architect — or As One Team
- Your architect's set, priced and coordinated
- Design-build available where scope fits
- No drawn-versus-built gap either way
To the Certificate of Occupancy, Not Almost
- Every inspection aimed at the CO date
- Punch list and training before handover
- Done means open, not almost open
Cannot find your answer? A real person is one call away, no pressure.
- A real person answers. No phone tree, no pressure to commit.
- Free consultation: scope, budget, and next steps in writing — before any contract.
- Straight answers on cost, permits, and financing, even when the answer is that the smaller project wins.
Select light-commercial work: tenant upfits, office and retail build-outs, service-business spaces, and small ground-up structures. We are deliberately capacity-gated — we take projects we can staff and deliver properly, which is exactly the discipline you want from your GC.
Commercial scopes vary too widely for an honest range — square footage, mechanical changes, and finish level drive it. After a walkthrough and drawings review you get a fixed, itemized scope in writing, with allowances and exclusions stated plainly.
Yes — we price and build from your architect's set and coordinate directly with them through permitting and construction. Where the scope fits, we can also run the project design-build under one contract.
The schedule is written into the contract, long-lead items get ordered at signing, inspections are sequenced with the county early, and changes are priced in writing before they happen. Deadline protection is project management, and that is the product.
Start with a free consultation. A real builder calls you back, no pressure, ever.