OpenCenter Build LLC is a focused practice. We do one thing — commercial real estate development and construction management — and we do it for a particular kind of client: institutional sponsors, retail and restaurant operators, medical groups, and developers with projects that ask too much of a typical contractor.
For more than a decade, our team has been on this work. Repositioning distressed strip centers. Opening hundreds of bank branches across the western US. Rolling out franchise programs nationwide. Standing up medical buildings on tight occupancy schedules. The names on the doors have changed; the discipline has not.
Center Build carries that resume forward. We started this firm to put the practice on better footing — a single brand, a clearer team, a sharper offering — and to keep doing what we've been doing for the operators who count on us.
If you're sizing a deal, drawing a scope, or planning your next opening, we'd be glad to hear about it.
Retail strip centers under-performing on rent roll. Restaurant operators rolling out twenty units a year. Medical groups standing up off-campus clinics on tight occupancy schedules. The work is repetitive in shape and singular in detail.
The verticals share a shape: tight occupancy schedules, complex permitting paths, operators who need certainty. We optimize for the seams between them.
Strip centers, anchored centers, single-tenant retail boxes.
Quick service, fast casual, full service. Franchise & owner-operator.
Off-campus clinics, urgent care, imaging, surgery centers, behavioral.
Wine bars, tasting rooms, boutique food & beverage formats.
New construction shells, pads, vertical retail on raw sites.
Repositioning distressed and underperforming assets back to NOI.
We deliver the work or we run the work. Sometimes both, on the same job. Operators choose us for the contracts we will hold and the programs we run — sized to the scope.
Every engagement runs the same shape, scaled to scope. The phases are sequential, the gates are explicit, and the team running each phase carries forward into the next.
Charter, intake, governance, ownership of risk and decision.
Feasibility, scope, budget baseline, schedule, design team selection.
Architectural & engineering coordination, value engineering, constructability.
Bid leveling, vendor selection, FF&E coordination, long-lead tracking.
Field execution, safety, schedule, owner reporting, change administration.
Punch, inspections, certificate of occupancy, turnover, post-opening support.
The gate between phasesEach phase closes with a written gate: owner decision, signed scope, approved budget. We don't advance to the next phase on assumptions.
Institutional sponsors. Restaurant and retail operators. Medical groups. Banks. The names you know and the operators you don't — running the same hard work, asking for the same thing: certainty of delivery.
Built the playbook for consistent franchise delivery. Standardized intake, design templates, vendor and procurement framework, and a single technology stack adopted across every location.
Enterprise-scale program: refresh existing branches, convert select locations to Chase Private Client centers, stand up new ground-up branches, and roll out new in-branch technology — all without disrupting retail operations.
Secured re-categorization approvals, ran architectural and engineering coordination, drove permitting, and scheduled day-and-night crews so no adjacent medical facility was disrupted. Leadership stayed focused on future acquisitions while we delivered.
Full-scope delivery of the El Torito flagship — Spanish-mission exterior with custom signage and landscaping, a soaring main dining hall with exposed brick columns, timber trusses, stained-glass clerestory and skylights, and a dedicated Cantina with brick-clad walls, granite bar, and broadcast wall.
Renovation of the historic Las Brisas overlooking the Pacific in Laguna Beach. Refreshed the arched-window oceanview dining room and rebuilt the bar program with a hand-finished hardwood top, woven pendant cluster, and tropical feature wall — all delivered without losing a season.
Field execution by our team, not outsourced. Daily supervision, weekly owner reporting, no surprises at month end.
Budgets and schedules are baselines we own. Open-book accounting on GMP work. Shared savings, never hidden margin.
If we don't run the work this way, we'll make it right. That's the guarantee — written into the contract, not the brochure.
Sizing a deal. Drawing a scope. Planning your next opening. Tell us what you're working on — we'll come back with a real answer.