Dallas Commercial General Contractor & Design-Build

Dallas metro construction runs from about $45 to $105 per SF for tilt-up warehouse, $145 to $335 for office, $178 to $460 for medical, $180 to $460 for restaurant, $118 to $305 for cold storage, $180 to $620 for hospitality, and $305 to $1,230 for data center. Multiplier is roughly 0.92 to 1.05x of national average. Use the cost estimator above and the national cost guide.

TCG builds the full commercial mix across DFW: cold storage and food processing, data centers, medical office buildings and ASCs, restaurants and QSR, cannabis and hemp processing, warehouse, self-storage, industrial and manufacturing, life sciences, hospitality, grocery anchored retail, tenant improvements, and adaptive reuse. IMP installation is a core self-perform.

Population growth, no state income tax, right-to-work labor, DFW airport (one of the busiest in the world), BNSF intermodal at Alliance, Toyota North America HQ in Plano, State Farm HQ in Richardson, American Airlines HQ in Fort Worth, and the largest data center market in Texas. Cold storage, medical, distribution, and corporate relocation demand are all durable.

Texas runs an isolated grid (ERCOT). For power-dense facilities (data centers, cold storage, cultivation, manufacturing) we coordinate the serving utility (Oncor across most of DFW) and the ERCOT interconnection process early. Transformer lead times run 40 to 80 weeks. DFW carries the heaviest data center concentration in Texas, which makes utility queue management consequential.

No. Texas repealed Certificate of Need decades ago and does not require it for hospitals, ASCs, MOBs, or imaging in most cases. UT Southwestern, Baylor Scott & White, Texas Health Resources, and the strong freestanding ER market all expand faster than they could in a CON state. TDLR licensing and local permitting still apply. See our Dallas medical construction guide.

Texas operates a limited medical program (the Compassionate Use Program, CUP) for low-THC cannabis, with a small set of licensed dispensing organizations. Hemp and CBD processing are legal under the Texas Hemp Farm Act (2019). TCG actively builds across the DFW metroplex and brings national cannabis facility experience (a decade and over 1,000,000 SF of IMP installed across 38 states) to Texas operators preparing for expanded program capacity and to current hemp processors. See Dallas cannabis construction.

Typical durations: tilt-up warehouse 7 to 11 months, restaurant ground-up 7 to 11 months, medical office 10 to 16 months, cold storage 11 to 18 months, data center 14 to 24 months, tenant improvement 3 to 7 months. Design-build overlaps design, permitting, and procurement to compress schedule 15 to 30 percent. City of Dallas Development Services permitting (or Plano, Frisco, Irving, Arlington, Fort Worth depending on site) is the long pole on most projects.

DFW runs zone 8a: hot humid summers (June through September), mild winters with occasional hard-freeze events (Feb 2021 reinforced freeze-tolerant MEP design), severe weather with significant hail and tornado exposure (inland market, not coastal). Vapor drive is summer-dominant (inward) so cold storage envelopes and grow rooms need tight vapor sealing and dehumidification sized for the latent load. Hail-resistant roofing and IMP detailing matter more in DFW than in most Texas metros.

Design-build puts architecture, engineering, and construction under one contract. For DFW it compresses schedule 15 to 30 percent against design-bid-build, locks pricing earlier, and removes the GC-versus-design finger-pointing that kills budgets. TCG self-performs IMP and specialty flooring, and engineers MEP in-house.

TCG self-performs insulated metal panel installation (over 1,000,000 SF across 38 states) and specialty commercial flooring. We engineer architecture, MEP, and structural in-house, and we GC and CM all other scopes through a vetted DFW subcontractor network. Self-perform on the envelope and flooring protects the critical path.

TCG holds a Texas address at 2001 Ross Ave #700, Dallas, builds actively across the metroplex, and has delivered automotive (Auto Nation Dallas 35,000 SF), restaurant (Del Frisco's Grille Woodlands, 3 Forks Steakhouse 2 locations, Perry's Steakhouse Woodlands), hospitality (Hotel ZaZa Austin sister property), healthcare (Davita Dialysis 25 sites across Texas), and industrial projects across the state. National experience includes 38 states and over 1,000,000 SF of IMP.

Sweet spot is $1M to $30M per project. We build smaller (tenant improvement, single restaurant, single dental office) and larger (cold storage 100,000+ SF, data center, multi-site rollouts) on a case basis. Single-source design-build delivery is what we do best in that range.

Yes. Owner's representative services are available across all 50 states. TCG acts as the owner's independent advocate from site selection through closeout: GC selection, bid normalization, pay application review, schedule and budget controls, and closeout. Useful when an owner already has a GC but needs builder-grade oversight.

Three options: (1) use the AI cost estimator above and get an instant range; (2) use the IMP estimator if your project is IMP-driven; (3) schedule a 30-minute consultation for a partner-led conceptual budget through preconstruction services.

City of Dallas plus Plano, Frisco, Irving, Arlington, Fort Worth, Garland, McKinney, Denton, Mesquite, Richardson, Allen, Grand Prairie, Lewisville, Carrollton, and the broader DFW metroplex along I-35E, I-35W, I-30, and the Bush and George turnpikes. TCG also builds in Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.

Most DFW GCs either run heavy local crews (high fixed overhead) or are pure trade managers (no self-perform leverage). TCG runs lean, self-performs the envelope and flooring scopes that most often blow schedule, brings AI cost estimating for fast preliminary budgets, and holds national IMP and cold storage specialty depth that local generalists do not have.