Tenant Improvement · Collier County · 2026
CRAE Investment Management
A 3,600 square foot office buildout carried from design through plans, permitting, and construction by one in-house team.
Sector
Tenant improvement · Office
Location
Collier County, FL
Size
3,600 sq ft
Completed
2026
Delivery
Design-Build tenant improvement
In-house scope
Design · Plans · Permitting · Construction
When CRAE Investment Management needed a home for its operation, Fort delivered the full arc of a tenant improvement: the design of the 3,600 square foot office space, the permit plans, the permitting itself, and the construction, all under one roof and one contract, completed in 2026.
The challenge
The clock starts when the lease is signed
A tenant improvement lives and dies on its timeline. From the day a lease is signed, every week the space is not ready is a week of rent paid on an office nobody can work in. The conventional path splits the work between a design firm, a permit expediter, and a contractor, and every handoff between them is a place for the schedule to slip.
Our approach
Design, permits, and construction without the handoffs
Fort ran the buildout as one continuous scope. The team that designed the space drew the permit plans, the team that drew the plans walked them through permitting, and the team that built the space had been in the conversation since the first sketch. For a professional firm fitting out its office, that means decisions get made once, and the schedule belongs to one accountable party.
The outcome
An office ready for business
The buildout was completed in 2026 and CRAE Investment Management operates from the space today. It is the same Design-Build logic Fort applies to ground-up construction, scaled to the inside of an existing shell, and one of a string of tenant improvements Fort has delivered for businesses across Collier and Lee counties.
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