Retail Space Renovation Contractor Serving Toronto & the GTA
From mall fitouts to street-front stores — we build retail spaces that open on time, meet brand standards, and hold up under daily foot traffic.
Completed retail projects at Upper Canada Mall, Hillcrest Mall, Scarborough Town Centre, and Maplelands on Bloor Street
Retail Renovation Experience Where It's Hardest to Get It Right
Retail construction is unforgiving. Your landlord has strict build-out guidelines. The mall or plaza has loading dock windows and noise restrictions. Your brand has a design package that has to be executed exactly as specified. And the moment your lease starts running, every day of delay is money out of your pocket.
Silcon Construction has spent years building and renovating retail spaces inside some of the GTA’s busiest commercial environments — including Upper Canada Mall, Hillcrest Mall, Scarborough Town Centre, and street-front locations along Bloor Street. We understand how retail construction works: the rules, the stakeholders, the pace, and the pressure.
When you hire us, you get a general contractor who’s done this before — in environments where the bar is high, and there’s no room for sloppy coordination.
Trusted on high-traffic commercial sites
What Retail Clients Tell Us Before They Call
Retail tenants don’t get extensions. We build from your possession date backwards, lock in the trade schedule before mobilization, and protect your timeline like it’s our own deadline — because it effectively is.
We’ve worked with brand-standard builds before. Give us the package, and we coordinate with your designer or corporate construction team to make sure every finish, fixture, and dimension is executed to spec.
Property management sign-offs, mall operations approvals, restricted working hours, hoarding requirements, freight elevator bookings — we’ve navigated all of it. We manage the property management relationship so you don’t have to learn the process on the fly.
Retail fitouts fall apart when trades show up out of sequence — electricians waiting on framers, flooring delayed by a millwork delivery. We control the schedule, sequence every trade, and flag delays before they compound.
A store isn’t just walls and flooring. It’s a customer flow, a point-of-sale position, a stockroom that has to function under real operating pressure. We think about the finished space, not just the construction phases.
Retail Renovation Services We Deliver
Tenant Improvement & Fitout
Full tenant improvement builds from shell or vanilla box — framing, drywall, ceilings, flooring, electrical, plumbing rough-in, millwork, and finishes. We take the space from what the landlord hands you to what your customers walk into.
Storefront & Facade
Work on storefront glass systems, entrance configurations, exterior signage blocking, hoarding installation, and facade finishing. We handle the parts of the build that customers see before they walk through the door.
Millwork & Custom Fixturing
Display walls, feature fixtures, cash wrap counters, shelving systems, back-of-house built-ins, and decorative feature elements. Retail millwork needs to be precise, durable, and on-brand — we deliver all three.
Flooring Installation
LVT, polished concrete, ceramic and porcelain tile, carpet tile, and specialty flooring systems. Retail floors take more abuse than any other commercial surface — we install them to hold up under high foot traffic for years.
Ceiling Systems
Suspended T-bar grids, drywall bulkheads, open-ceiling industrial finishes, coffered features, and bulkhead builds around HVAC and sprinkler systems. We coordinate ceiling work with the mechanical and electrical trades to avoid costly re-dos.
MEP Trade Coordination
We manage your mechanical, electrical, and plumbing subcontractors in sequence — ensuring HVAC, lighting, data, and plumbing rough-ins are completed before walls close, and ceilings go up. No re-opening of finished work because a trade missed its window.
Demising Wall Construction
New demising walls between tenants, sound attenuation systems, fire separations, and building code-compliant partition builds. We work with your landlord’s base building drawings to ensure everything ties in correctly.
Landlord & Mall Coordination
We interface directly with property management and mall operations on your behalf — obtaining approvals, scheduling inspections, booking freight elevators, and ensuring our crews follow site-specific rules. You focus on your business; we manage the building relationship.
Project Management
For tenants who already have a designer or corporate construction manager, we step in as the site-level general contractor and project manager — executing the scope, coordinating trades, and reporting daily progress to your team.
Why Retailers and Landlords Choose Silcon in the GTA
We’ve completed projects at some of the most rigorously managed retail properties in the GTA. Mall environments have strict contractor vetting requirements — ISNetworld registration, COR certification, Avetta compliance, and on-site safety programs. Our crews are trained, documented, and ready to work on day one.
We set the schedule at mobilization and defend it. Every trade knows its window, every material order is confirmed before we start framing, and every potential delay gets flagged to you before it becomes a problem. Retail clients don’t get second chances on opening dates — and we treat that fact seriously.
You get one number to call and one person responsible. Your dedicated site supervisor manages every trade, communicates with building management, and sends you progress updates throughout the project. You’re never left wondering what’s happening on your site.
Retail Projects We've Delivered
Silcon Construction has built and renovated retail spaces across the GTA in environments that demand a high level of coordination, compliance, and craftsmanship.
Upper Canada Mall — Winners
Winners Exterior and interior work within a major national retail tenant’s space at Upper Canada Mall, delivered to brand standards within a high-traffic operational environment.
How a Retail Renovation with Silcon Works
Initial Contact
Call or email us with the basics: your possession date, the space size, and any brand or landlord requirements you’re already aware of. We ask the right questions early so nothing catches us off guard later.
Site Review
We visit the space — whether it’s a shell unit, a vanilla box, or an existing retail tenancy — and assess the base-building conditions, access requirements, and any constraints that will affect the schedule or budget.
Pricing & Proposal
We gather current material pricing and build a detailed, line-item quote with a realistic project schedule tied to your possession and opening dates. You know exactly what you’re getting and when.
Approval & Mobilization
Once the quote is approved, we order materials, submit for any required permits, coordinate with the mall or property management for access approvals, and mobilize on-site.
Supervised Execution Through to Opening
A dedicated site supervisor manages the build daily, coordinates every trade, communicates with building management, and sends you regular progress updates and photos. We don’t go dark mid-project. You’ll be informed from the first day through the final walkthrough.
Retail Renovation Services Across the Greater Toronto Area
We work with retail tenants, franchisees, independent owners, and property managers across Toronto, Scarborough, North York, Etobicoke, Mississauga, Brampton, Markham, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, and surrounding GTA municipalities. Enclosed malls, open-air plazas, street-front retail, mixed-use developments — we’ve worked in them all.
Planning a Retail Renovation in the GTA?
Whether you’re building from scratch, refreshing an existing space, or taking over a previous tenant’s unit, we’d like to hear about your project. Tell us your timeline, and we’ll set up a site visit.