· KSI PORTFOLIO
Avid & Candlewood Hotel.
52,000 sq ft hospitality structure in Mission, TX. Cold-formed steel framing throughout the multi-story envelope. Built in partnership with KSI.
T H E · T H I R D · D I S C I P L I N E
Commercial we would put our name on.
Retail pads, light commercial, tenant build-outs, mixed-use. We take on commercial work in the Rio Grande Valley the same way we take on a custom home, founder-led, locked pricing, permits through turnover, on the schedule we signed. On larger and specialty commercial scopes we partner with KSI Cold Formed Steel so you get Sisu’s service standard plus deep structural expertise on one team.
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What we build, on the commercial side.
Sisu’s commercial work is small to mid-sized, the kind of project where a single founder can run point on every meeting and the owner still talks to the builder, not a project coordinator. We don’t bid hospitals. We don’t chase highway interchanges. We build the buildings local investors, small operators, and tenants actually need. On the larger and more specialized commercial work, we partner with KSI Cold Formed Steel so you get our service standard plus their deep commercial expertise on one team.
· O U R C O M M E R C I A L P A R T N E R
Built with KSI.
Commercial done right needs structural expertise no general builder should claim alone. For our larger and specialty commercial projects, Sisu works hand in hand with KSI Cold Formed Steel, a Texas cold-formed steel framing specialist with a portfolio spanning hospitality, multi-family, commercial, and high-spec residential across Texas, Louisiana, and Wisconsin.
You get the Sisu service standard, the same founder-on-site discipline, the same locked-pricing and weekly-update playbook, paired with KSI’s structural engineering and CFS framing expertise: hotels, townhomes, mixed-use, and the kind of long-span buildings cold-formed steel is built for. One partnership, two standards on one team.
· Partner Spotlight
KSI Cold Formed Steel
Cold-formed steel framing specialist · ksi-cfs.com · projects across Texas, Louisiana, and Wisconsin.
SisuFounder-led service
KSICommercial expertise
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Recent commercial work.
A handful of projects that show the range. From shell pads to full tenant build-outs, every one of these was on contract, on schedule, and led on site by Daniel.
· KSI PORTFOLIO
Avid & Candlewood, aerial.
Same hotel project from above. Full site footprint, surface parking, and the scale that cold-formed steel makes possible on a tight hospitality timeline.
· KSI PORTFOLIO
Houston Townhomes.
Five three-story townhomes in Houston, TX. Cold-formed steel and concrete shear walls. Built for long-term hold with serious envelope and structural spec.
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Bastrop Residence.
7,000 sq ft cold-formed steel residence in Bastrop, TX. Custom high-spec home on a wooded lot, the kind of long-span structure CFS is built for.
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Project types.
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Retail & restaurant pads
Ground-up pad sites for single tenants or shell-and-vanilla-box retail. Includes site work, utilities, foundation, vertical, MEP, finish, and CO.
- 2,000 to 8,000 sqft
- Single or multi-tenant shell
- Permitting through final inspection
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Light commercial & office
Standalone offices, professional suites, medical and dental. Concrete tilt-up, masonry, or wood-frame, depending on what the program asks for.
- 3,000 to 15,000 sqft
- Class A and B
- Site-built or ground-up
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Tenant build-outs
Finishing a shell into a usable space. Retail interiors, medical TI, restaurant TI, office reconfiguration. Permit-to-keys turnover.
- Open-shell to full TI
- Coordination with landlord requirements
- Health-dept-ready scopes (food, dental, salon)
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Mixed-use & live-work
Ground-floor retail with residential or office above. We’ve designed this for our own developments and can run it for yours.
- 2- and 3-story buildings
- Shared-wall & party-wall construction
- Coordination across uses (parking, egress, MEP)
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Small-lot subdivisions
Townhome and small-lot single-family developments where the same builder runs the subdivision and the homes. See Pecan Heights for what that looks like in practice.
- 8 to 30 lots
- Site development + vertical
- Sales-ready spec or build-to-suit
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Pre-construction & bid management
If you have a project that hasn’t been priced yet, we can run early-phase work: feasibility, budget setup, plan review, value engineering, and contractor selection.
- Standalone or rolled into a build
- Fee-based engagement
- Open book pricing
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How a Sisu commercial job runs.
Same playbook as our custom work, condensed for commercial timelines. The number on the contract is the number that closes.
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· 01 Week 1 to 2
Scope & feasibility
First call, site visit, scope review, rough order of magnitude. If the budget and the program don’t line up, we tell you on the first call. No proposal theater.
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· 02 Week 2 to 5
Plans & line item pricing
Coordination with your architect (or ours), MEP engineer, civil. We bid the work line by line and put a real, locked number on it.
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· 03 Week 5 to 7
Contract & permits
Fixed-scope contract. We pull permits with McAllen, Hidalgo County, Edinburg, Mission, whichever AHJ applies. Insurance, bonds, and trade contracts in place before mobilization.
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· 04 Week 7+
Site work & vertical
Site prep, utilities, foundation, structure, envelope, MEP, finishes. Weekly Friday updates with photos. Daniel on site multiple times a week.
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· 05 Final 6 weeks
Inspections & CO
Final inspections with the AHJ, fire marshal, health department where applicable. Certificate of Occupancy in hand before turnover. Punch list closed within 14 days of CO.
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· 06 Year 1+
Warranty & aftercare
12-month workmanship warranty, manufacturer warranties on installed systems. One contact for warranty calls, Daniel, same as during the build.
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What stays the same as our residential work.
Locked pricing after contract
If lumber or steel moves mid build, that’s our problem to manage, not yours. Change orders come from your side, not ours.
Open book budgets
Every line item is visible. Subs, materials, labor, overhead, margin, you see the build of the number we quoted.
Founder on site
Daniel is at your jobsite multiple times a week. Same person from contract signature through CO.
Weekly Friday updates
Photos, milestones, and what’s coming next week. Same cadence whether it’s a townhome or a tenant build-out.
Bilingual end to end
Contracts, meetings, walkthroughs, and crew coordination in English or Español, whichever your team prefers.
Local subs, vetted
The same RGV electricians, framers, MEP and concrete crews we’ve used on dozens of builds. People we trust on the schedule we promised.
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Where we build commercial.
Hidalgo County
- McAllen
- Edinburg
- Mission
- Pharr
- San Juan · Alamo · Alton
- Donna · Mercedes · Weslaco · Hidalgo
Cameron County
- Brownsville
- Harlingen
- San Benito
- Project-by-project review for the rest of the Lower Valley
A short, honest list
Commercial scope we pass on.
The Valley deserves builders that say no when the fit is wrong. Things we don’t take on:
- Hospital, large institutional, or high-rise.
- Projects with active litigation between owner and prior GC.
- Public-bid work where the lowest number wins regardless of scope.
- Projects outside Hidalgo or Cameron County. We refer you to a builder we trust.
If your project sits in any of those, we’ll point you to the right team on the first call. Same Valley, same trades pool, most everyone knows everyone.
L E T ‘ S · T A L K
Send the scope. We will send back a real number.
First call is 15 minutes. If the project’s a fit, we walk you through what a Sisu engagement looks like for your build.
