General Contractor

I met with the second of several prospective general contractors for the build out of our first store on Sunday. This gentleman is currently in the lead to get the job. He has plenty of experience working in the mall (he's built out several food operations in this particular mall including the McDonalds and a salad place), he lives in the same city, and he has contacts in the building department that may prove helpful. We sat and talked about the plans for a bit and then he took me on a tour of the path I'll have to take to get the machine in to the store and cases of bagged chips out of the mall. We then stood in front of the space trying to stay out of sight of the current tenants and discussed what he felt would be the harder parts of the job. The good news is that his rough estimate on the amount of time needed for the project is half the time I've alloted for the work. He feels it can be done in one month if all the materials are ordered and everything is on hand.