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From the zoning counter to the last throw pillow.

RPD is a Turn-Key Building Company. From Pre Construction Services to furniture and retail display installation we handle it all, RaPiDly.

Building or renovating commercial space comes with a familiar set of headaches: zoning, planning commission, permitting, engineering, the building you have not opened up yet, and the code that will. RPD handles them turn-key — then installs the furniture and the retail displays, RaPiDly.

Retail · Restaurants · Landlords · Offices · Anyone who has heard “that’s a planning issue”

Call 615-551-1137Start a projectName your headache
A superintendent holds an absurdly tall stack of drawings in an unfinished retail interior while a colleague holds one slim binder and a coffee.
One of these is a permit set. The other is how we prefer to carry it.

The usual suspects

All commercial services
  1. 01Zoning ComplianceThe use you want is not always the use they wrote down.Read
  2. 02Planning CommissionContinued to the next hearing. And the one after that.Read
  3. 03PermittingReviewer comments that do not agree with each other.Read
  4. 04EngineeringThree drawing sets, one ceiling, zero apologies.Read
  5. 05Site & Building EvaluationThe lease is romantic. The rooftop unit is not.Read
  6. 06Code ComplianceThe inspector has a punch list and a calendar.Read

In their words

RPD is a Turn-Key Building Company. From Pre Construction Services to furniture and retail display installation we handle it all, RaPiDly.

How a commercial project actually moves

Not a funnel. A sequence. Skip a step and it usually returns later, with interest, wearing a reviewer comment.

  1. 01

    Pre-construction

    Budget, schedule, and the decisions that are cheap while they are still questions.

    Pre-construction services

  2. 02

    Entitlements

    Zoning and planning commission — the hearing that would rather be a stamp.

    Zoning and the hearing

  3. 03

    Permit and engineering

    One set of drawings, several reviewers, and a comment log with a pulse.

    Permits and engineering

  4. 04

    Build, then furnish

    Construction through furniture and retail display installation. The pillow counts.

    Furniture and displays
A large wood display plinth in an empty boutique, with a small yellow level on top and brass clothing racks behind it.
Retail display installation. The level is small. The opening date is not.
Cognac leather sofas and brass coffee tables in an empty marble lobby, with one throw pillow set on the seat.
Furniture installation, performed with the seriousness the pillow clearly deserves.

Questions we hear before the demo

The full FAQ
What does turn-key mean at RPD?

One company from pre-construction through the day the space is actually usable. Zoning, planning commission, permitting, engineering, site evaluation, code compliance, construction, and furniture and retail display installation stay in the same conversation instead of being forwarded around town.

Is RPD only for ground-up commercial buildings?

No. Renovations, occupancy changes, retail rollouts, and landlord work are the daily headache. Ground-up is welcome. “We are just refreshing the finishes” is welcome too, after we check whether the code agrees.

Who are the commercial projects for?

Retailers, restaurants, landlords, office tenants, clinics, and owner-operators who would like the paperwork and the building handled by people who have met both. If your last meeting ended with “that’s a planning issue,” you are in the right waiting room.

How do we start a project?

Project inquiries go to rpdcm.com. Bring the address, the use you want, and whatever drawings or lease pages you already have. A tour brochure is not a program, but it is a start.

Bring the headache. Keep the opening date.

Zoning through furniture, one turn-key company. Project inquiries live at rpdcm.com.

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