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Aventura, Miami-Dade County

Demolition in Aventura

Aventura began as Turnberry, with high-rise condominiums rising in the early 1970s, and the Intracoastal Waterway and Dumfoundling Bay form its eastern border. Its Building Division takes demolition permits through the eTRAKiT portal. Towers from that era are well past the county's 30-year recertification mark.

Incorporated in 1995, Aventura is a city of condominium towers and of Aventura Mall, opened in 1983 and the largest mall in Florida. Inside a tower, demolition can mean a unit taken back to the slab, a common area rebuilt, or a retail space cleared for a new tenant.

Under County Chapter 24, demolition of a condominium unit over 160 square feet needs DERM plan review before the building permit, and the county requires an asbestos survey for renovation over 160 square feet. We arrange the licensed survey and coordinate the licensed abatement firm, then work within the association's rules on hours, elevators and debris.

Recertification in Miami-Dade starts at 30 years and repeats every 10, and repair findings sometimes lead to selective demolition of balconies, slabs or facade elements. That work is engineered by the building's design professional, and we coordinate to their drawings.

Sources: Wikipedia: Aventura, Florida · City of Aventura: eTRAKiT web portal · Miami Beach: DERM review under County Chapter 24 · Miami-Dade County: building permits and demolition requirements · Miami-Dade County: building recertification

Who issues the permit in Aventura

City of Aventura Community Development, Building Division

Apply through the eTRAKiT portal. Condo-unit demolition over 160 sq ft needs DERM plan review first.

See the official page

This is general information, not legal advice. If you hire Romco, we apply for the permit as contractor of record. Miami-Dade demolition permit guide

What we quote in Aventura

Other work we quote

From first call to final

The order a Miami-Dade job follows

Romco Builders is a licensed Florida general contractor, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale. A garden shed and a mid-rise run through the same steps.

  1. Call or send the request

    Give us the address, photos or plans if you have them, and a plain account of what goes and what remains.

  2. Site visit

    We check how the building is framed, where the services enter, how trucks and machines get in, and what stands on either side.

  3. Scope and quote in writing

    You get a written scope listing removals, protections and haul-off, with any item that hangs on the asbestos survey called out.

  4. Survey, notice and permit

    A licensed asbestos survey, the DERM notice where it applies, the utility disconnects, then the permit from the city or the county.

  5. Take-down and hauling

    Work runs in the agreed sequence. Loads go to permitted facilities, and we keep the tickets.

  6. Final and closeout

    The inspector signs off the permit. You are left with a clean lot, or the shell you asked us to keep.

Questions

Demolition in Aventura

Does gutting a condo unit in Aventura need more than a city permit?

Often. Demolition of a condominium unit over 160 square feet needs DERM plan review before the building permit, and the county asbestos survey rule applies to renovations over 160 square feet. Your association will usually have its own rules as well. Confirm the permit path with Aventura's Building Division.

How much will my demolition cost?

We quote each job after seeing it, in person or through photos and plans when they show enough. The figure moves with the construction type, the floor area and height, the asbestos survey result, the utilities to be cut off, how machines reach the work, what stands next door, what must be kept, and how far the loads travel. A 1950s concrete block house and a 1990s frame addition can sit on the same street and quote very differently, which is why we publish no rates.

Why does Miami-Dade want an asbestos survey even for a house?

The county's own demolition requirements call for an asbestos survey on every demolition project, which is stricter than the federal rule for some small homes. A notice of demolition also goes to DERM, the county's environmental resources office, no later than ten working days ahead of the start date. The building permit is a different document and cannot stand in for it. We arrange a licensed survey, and a licensed abatement firm removes anything the work would disturb. Romco coordinates both and is not an abatement contractor.

How long does it take to get from first call to a cleared site?

We will not guess before the facts are known. The answer depends on the plan review queue at your city or the county, how fast the utilities issue their disconnect letters, what the survey turns up and the notice period that follows, any historic or condo board approval, and how big the building is and what it is built from. When we know those, you get a sequence that names what each step waits on.

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Tell us what is coming down. We will put a quote on it.

Romco Builders is a licensed Florida general contractor, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale. A single interior partition or a complete building gets the same thing: a written scope and a quote.

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