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April 09, 2009 - Alex Carrick
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07/14/2009 - posted by John R Read
Are any tenant improvement costs included in these cost estimates or are these estimates only assuming shell construction costs?
07/14/2009 - posted by Alex Carrick
For structures which are primarily designed to hold tenants (e.g., stores, office buildings, etc.), the improvements have to be undertaken by those companies and individuals themselves. The RSMeans dollar-per-square foot figures in such cases do not include tenant improvements.
07/14/2009 - posted by John R Read
Thanks Alex...appreciate the clarification.
Accompanying this report are tables and charts based on RSMeans’ measures of dollar-per-square-foot construction costs. The results for 25 major cities are shown in eight type-of-structure categories. The eight structure types come in two major sub-groupings – office buildings and institutional. There is a discussion of which categories of construction are most expensive to build and how the 25 cities rank for construction costs.