Case Study 1
240-Unit Multi-Family Community, Orlando
A regional developer broke ground on a $52 million, 10-building garden-style multi-family community in Orlando: 240 units across ten residential buildings, plus a clubhouse with a fitness center, package and mail room, and leasing office. Total project footprint: roughly 255,000 square feet.
The developer brought us in before submission. Tew & Taylor handled plan review across all ten buildings and the amenity structures, packaged the submittal, and filed with the City of Orlando. The city approved the permit on first submission. No comment letters, no resubmittal cycles, no weeks lost to back-and-forth.
Once the package was complete, Florida Statute 553.791 obligated the building department to issue or formally object within 20 business days. They issued.
On site, every inspection visit covered structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing in a single trip. The superintendent didn't schedule four separate visits. He didn't reschedule because one trade wasn't ready. The crews worked, the inspector showed up, and the project moved.
$166Ksaved in permit fees through the City of Orlando's 80% private provider fee reduction under Florida Statute 553.791
20business day window mandated by statute
Firstsubmission approval, zero resubmittal cycles
4trades inspected on every visit
Plan submissionTew & Taylor plan reviewCity of Orlando issuance within 20 business daysCombined-trade inspectionsCertificate of Occupancy
Traditional path
- Longer permit timeline
- Separate inspection visits per phase
- Higher permit fee exposure
With Tew & Taylor
- First-submission approval
- All four trades inspected on every visit
- $166,000 saved in permit fees
Case Study 2
Custom Waterfront Home, West Palm Beach
A custom builder was finishing design on a 5,500 square foot waterfront home in West Palm Beach: $4.5 million construction valuation, on a tight construction loan timeline.
The builder had been through the typical West Palm Beach review cycle before. Five to forty days for initial review, comment letters, a second cycle, sometimes a third. On a high-end residential project carrying real monthly interest costs, every week of delay was real money out of the homeowner's pocket.
Tew & Taylor performed plan review in-house, packaged the submittal, and filed with the City of West Palm Beach. Approved on first submission.
The 20 business day clock under Florida Statute 553.791 ran, and the permit issued well inside it.
When inspections started, the same all-trades-every-visit rhythm held. The framer, the electrician, the plumber, the mechanical sub: everyone got inspected on the same visit. The builder ran his schedule, not the building department's.
The homeowner moved in roughly two months earlier than a comparable project that goes through traditional county review.
$30Kapproximately in avoided construction loan carrying costs from a faster path to permit
20business day window mandated by statute
Firstsubmission approval
2 monthsroughly earlier to certificate of occupancy
Plan submissionTew & Taylor plan reviewCity of West Palm Beach issuance within 20 business daysCombined-trade inspectionsCertificate of Occupancy
