City guide - Pembroke Pines
Relocating a business to Pembroke Pines
Pembroke Pines is Broward's second-largest city: a suburban powerhouse of retail corridors, medical offices, and professional parks serving one of the densest residential populations in South Florida.
Verified against the City of Pembroke Pines building department pages, September 2026.
Pick your corridor
- Pines Boulevard / Flamingo Road. The city's retail spine - power centers, grocery-anchored plazas, and restaurants drawing from a huge trade area.
- Memorial Hospital / medical district. One of Broward's strongest medical office markets, anchored by Memorial Healthcare System facilities.
- I-75 / Pines Boulevard interchange. Regional retail and office near the Turnpike and I-75, with easy pull from Miami-Dade's northwest suburbs.
- Chapel Trail / SilverLakes area. Newer professional and medical office product in western Pembroke Pines.
Permitting in Pembroke Pines
The city operates its own building department with electronic plan submission. Interior tenant build-outs follow the standard commercial alteration path: plans, zoning verification, building and fire review, permit, inspections, and a certificate of occupancy or completion. Pembroke Pines is a large-volume department - review quality is consistent, and timelines for straightforward interior work are generally predictable. Signage in the retail corridors is heavily regulated; budget design time for sign approval separate from the build-out permit.
Build-out realities
- Most available space is second-generation retail, office, or medical in 1980s-2000s plazas and parks. Older centers can have HVAC and electrical capacity limits that matter for medical and restaurant uses.
- Medical conversions are the city's signature build-out type and carry extra plumbing, electrical, and accessibility scope - see the cost guide before assuming an office budget covers a medical use.
- Shopping-center landlords often control storefront, signage, and work hours. Read the landlord's tenant criteria manual before pricing.
The short list
- Confirm the space's permitted use and any landlord design criteria early.
- Medical users: verify HVAC tonnage and plumbing before signing.
- Use the cost table and timeline to set a real opening date.
Featured build-out partner
Shiff Construction & Development
Shiff Construction & Development, Inc. is a Fort Lauderdale commercial general contractor that has delivered office, retail, restaurant, medical, bank-branch, and municipal build-outs across South Florida since 1989. We feature Shiff because their project record in Broward and Palm Beach counties is long and verifiable, and because they answer the phone.
Send plans or a space brochure and get a realistic budget range back in 48 hours - before you sign a lease, not after. Call (954) 555-0132 or use the form below.
Get a build-out budget range in 48 hours
Tell us about the space and the move. You will also get the Broward County permit and timeline checklist (PDF) - the same one we hand to partners planning an opening.
Prefer to talk? (954) 555-0132. Already have the checklist? Download the Broward County permit & timeline checklist (PDF).