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Katy, TX · Commercial & Residential GC

Commercial contractor for Katy and west Houston.

We build shopping centers, restaurants, offices, and medical space. We also remodel homes. You sign one contract. We handle the design, the permits, and the trades.

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Insured & bondedNamed PM on every jobCity of Katy registeredIn-house MEP & permits
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8 service lines
Mostly commercial projects, plus residential remodels
1 contractor
Design, permits, and the trades, coordinated in-house
Katy + metro
Cinco Ranch, Cypress, Fulshear, Sugar Land, west Houston
Design → CO
One point of contact from concept to certificate of occupancy (CO)
Our work

What we build

Three commercial services make up most of our work. We also do residential remodels, run by the same crew that handles mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) work and permits in-house.

Shopping Center & Retail Buildout — Katy, TXCommercial
$85–$250 per sq ft

Shopping Center & Retail Buildout

We build anchor retail, in-line shops, restaurant pads, and food-court units across Katy and west Houston. One team handles your project from white box to grand opening.

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Commercial Buildout / Tenant Improvement — Katy, TXTenant improvement
$65–$180 per sq ft

Commercial Buildout / Tenant Improvement

We build office, medical, professional, and light-industrial tenant improvements. We work to your lease deadline and handle the permits and the trades.

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Ground-Up Commercial Construction — Katy, TXGround-up
$175–$425 per sq ft

Ground-Up Commercial Construction

We build free-standing retail, small office, medical, and light-industrial buildings. One contract covers everything from site work to your certificate of occupancy (CO).

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Residential Remodel & Additions — Katy, TXResidential
$15,000–$250,000 per project

Residential Remodel & Additions

We remodel kitchens, baths, and primary suites, and build additions across Katy, Cinco Ranch, and west Houston. The same crew that does our commercial work builds your remodel.

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Full scope

Eight services. One contract.

From a single restaurant pad to a ground-up building. We also handle the permit and MEP work that most contractors outsource.

Shopping Center & Retail Buildout$85–$250 per sq ftWe build anchor retail, in-line shops, restaurant pads, and food-court units across Katy and west Houston. One team handles your project from white box to grand opening.Commercial Buildout / Tenant Improvement$65–$180 per sq ftWe build office, medical, professional, and light-industrial tenant improvements. We work to your lease deadline and handle the permits and the trades.Ground-Up Commercial Construction$175–$425 per sq ftWe build free-standing retail, small office, medical, and light-industrial buildings. One contract covers everything from site work to your certificate of occupancy (CO).Residential Remodel & Additions$15,000–$250,000 per projectWe remodel kitchens, baths, and primary suites, and build additions across Katy, Cinco Ranch, and west Houston. The same crew that does our commercial work builds your remodel.Permit Expediting & City Compliance$1,500–$12,000 per projectWe pull and track your City of Katy and Harris or Fort Bend County permits, so plan review and inspections don't stall your opening date.MEP Coordination (Mechanical / Electrical / Plumbing)$8,000–$85,000 per projectWe manage the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) trades in-house. This coordination is what keeps a buildout on schedule and on budget.Design-Build & Architecture Coordination$12,000–$150,000 per projectOne contract covers the design and the construction. We coordinate the architecture, engineering, and the build, which is usually faster than design-bid-build.Owner's Rep / Construction Management$4,500–$60,000 per projectWe represent you on a project someone else is building. We review the budget, the schedule, and the change orders so you know what's happening.
Process

How it works

1

Call or send your plans

Tell us the space, the scope, and the deadline. We ask the right questions and set up a walkthrough, commercial or residential.

2

Scope, budget & schedule

You get a written scope, a price, and a schedule that works back from your deadline. Permits and the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing work are included in the price.

3

We build it. One team.

One named project manager runs the trades, permits, and inspections through to CO or final punch list. You always know where the job stands.

Why one-stop

We handle the trades, the permits, and the schedule under one contract.

Most Katy-area projects are split across a contractor, separate MEP subs, and an outside permit runner. Every handoff can cost you a week, and it’s where change orders tend to hide.

We coordinate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing work in-house. We expedite City of Katy and Harris/Fort Bend permits ourselves, and we put one named project manager on your job. You have one point of contact from the first sketch to CO.

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Where we work

Katy and the west Houston metro.

Based in Katy, with commercial reach across the metro.

KatyCinco RanchCypressFulshearRichmondSugar LandMemorial / Energy CorridorWest HoustonHouston
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Plan your budget

Know the numbers before you bid it out.

Our Katy buildout cost guide breaks down real per-square-foot ranges and worked examples for commercial buildouts, ground-up projects, and residential remodels. It comes with a multi-step quote calculator.

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Free resource

Katy Buildout Cost Guide. Free for owners and brokers.

2026 sq-ft ranges for shopping-center buildouts, tenant improvements, ground-up commercial, and residential remodels across the Katy and west Houston metro. No spam.

FAQ

Common questions

A full-service general contractor manages your entire project under one contract. That includes design coordination, permits, the trades, the schedule, and the build itself. Tanglewood Construction handles all of that in-house for shopping-center buildouts, commercial tenant improvements, ground-up commercial, and residential remodels across Katy and the west Houston metro. You work with one contractor instead of three or four separate companies.
Texas does not license general contractors at the state level, so there is no license number to show. We are registered with the City of Katy. We carry general liability and workers' comp insurance, our crews are bonded, and the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing subcontractors we use are licensed. A named project manager runs every job.
Commercial buildout pricing in the Katy and west Houston metro generally runs $65–$180 per square foot for tenant improvements, $85–$250 per square foot for shopping-center and retail buildouts, and $175–$425 per square foot for ground-up commercial, depending on finishes, MEP scope, and how much existing infrastructure we can reuse. These are planning ranges, not a quote. We give you a written scope and a real number after a walkthrough, and our cost guide has worked examples.
Yes. In-house permit expediting is one of the main reasons owners hire us. We assemble the submittal package, manage plan-review comments with the City of Katy and Harris/Fort Bend County, and coordinate the MEP sub-permits and inspections so your occupancy date doesn't slip. We also offer permit expediting as a standalone service for owners and other contractors.
MEP coordination means managing the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing trades as one job, not three. When those are separate contracts, conflicts show up in the field as expensive change orders. Because we coordinate MEP in-house, we catch clashes on paper before anyone opens a wall, sequence the rough-in so trades aren't colliding, and keep one schedule for the whole project.
Yes. Commercial work is our main focus: shopping-center buildouts, tenant improvements, and ground-up construction. The same crew handles kitchen, bath, and primary-suite remodels, room additions, full-home remodels, and smaller custom new construction across Katy, Cinco Ranch, and the surrounding metro, with the same in-house MEP and permit coordination.
We're based in Katy and serve Cinco Ranch, Cypress, Fulshear, Richmond, Sugar Land, Memorial / Energy Corridor, west Houston, and the broader Houston metro. Katy and the west Houston metro are our core area. We take on commercial projects further into the metro as well.
Usually, yes. Design-build puts the design and the construction under one contract, so cost and buildability get worked out during design instead of after. There's no separate re-bidding step where the architect and the contractor point fingers at each other. For most commercial owners who want speed and a single point of contact, design-build is the faster, lower-surprise path.
Ready when you are

Tell us about your project.

We call back the same business day. Commercial or residential, we’re ready to scope it.

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