One store, five permits
Here's the pattern we've seen on mall TIs for years: the store you think is one permit turns out to be five — each at a different counter, each with its own forms, each one you forget turning into a resubmittal or a second trip. Nobody sells the package. So we did.
The satellite set
Depending on the city and scope, a retail TI package typically includes: building TI / interior alteration (the core permit) + interior demolition + fire alarm + fire sprinkler + storefront signage + sanitary/sewer + minor encroachment where the work touches the sidewalk. We map which of these your jurisdiction requires before the first submittal — not after the city bounces you.
The scoping comes from our jurisdiction playbooks — city forms inventories and intake checklists we've compiled for the cities we serve. If your city isn't in them yet, we scope it by hand. We don't guess at satellite sets; everything we list comes from a published city source.
How it works
- Tell us the store address + scope. That's the whole intake: the suite, the square footage, what's changing. No forms to hunt down.
- We scope the satellite set. From our jurisdiction playbooks: which permits the city, county, and fire agency each require, which order they go in, and which forms and checklists each one needs.
- One order, one total. $125 per permit in the bundle — the whole package priced as a single number. You approve it once, not five times.
- Filed and tracked together. Every permit in the package files, tracks, and updates on one board — no CC-all email threads, no separate receipt emails as your status system.
The package, priced
A typical store with five satellite permits: $625 + city fees. One number, one approval, the whole store covered. City fees are separate and paid by you, directly to the agencies — we never front them and never mark them up.
- Full satellite scoping — every permit the jurisdiction demands, mapped before the first filing
- Building TI filed — interior alteration / finish-out with the city's forms and checklists
- Fire permits filed — alarm and sprinkler through the fire agency's own track, not as an afterthought
- Signage, demo, sanitary, encroachment — wherever the city requires them, in the same package
- One tracking board — every permit in the package, every status, one screen
- 10+ locations = 10% off — the multi-store pricing from our rollout program
Filing is not approval or issuance — no one can promise those. What we promise: every permit in the package filed right, tracked, and kept moving.
Who this is for
- Retail brands opening stores — the 10th store permits as fast as the first; prototype plan sets stored once and adapted per city
- Restaurant groups — food-service TIs carry health and grease-trap review on top; we fold it into the package
- Tenant-improvement contractors — one order per store instead of five separate errands to five counters
- Property owners and landlords — pre-permitted turnkey suites: the package that makes a space leasable faster
We've filed dozens of mall TIs — Broadway Plaza in Walnut Creek, Valley Fair, Westfield, Arden Mall. That's where the package was born: watching one store turn into five separate trips.
Questions
How do you know which satellite permits my city requires?
From our jurisdiction playbooks — compiled city forms inventories and intake checklists for the cities we serve, including separate fire-agency tracks where fire alarm and sprinkler run as their own permits. For cities not yet in the playbooks, we scope by hand from published city sources before anything files.We never invent satellite sets; if a permit's requirement isn't verifiable, we tell you that and scope it in writing.
What if my store only needs the building TI?
Then the package is one permit and one $125 — we don't pad bundles. The scoping is free either way: if your city truly needs only the TI, that's all you pay for.The whole point of scoping first is to avoid selling you permits you don't need.
Can you really file everything the same day?
We file every permit in the package the same day your documents are complete — that's the "same-day" we promise. What no one can promise is how fast the city reviews: plan-review agencies set their own clocks.Filing is not approval or issuance. Fire-agency tracks in some cities run on their own review lanes.
How does this work across multiple stores or cities?
Start a program at /program/: your prototype plans stored once, your company profile entered once, each location scoped and filed from the same board. 10+ locations gets 10% off.City fees always at cost, per agency, per location.
What does the $125 per permit cover?
Our complete filing service for one permit in the bundle: the forms and checklists prepared, the submittal filed with the agency, and the permit tracked to completion on your board — including one corrections round.Government fees are separate, paid by you directly to the agency.
Your next store, one order
Give us the address and the scope. We'll scope the satellite set and come back with one number.
Or call (888) 907-9511 — same-day filing starts with a five-minute conversation.