Engage Maitre
Have us run it with you
You now know what 4120 Corridor Crossing, Suite 100 needs and roughly when you open. The part nobody writes down is that a first restaurant is won or lost in the eleven months between those two facts, by people who do this every week.
What it costs
4–8% of project cost, carried in the budget
Not a retainer. You do not write us a cheque before you open, and there is no monthly invoice arriving while you are still paying rent on an empty room.
The fee is a line in the project budget — the same budget that already carries the GC, the equipment package, and the permit fees, and the same budget your lender is already underwriting. It is financed the way every other cost of opening is financed, because you are cash-poor right now and pretending otherwise helps nobody.
- Project cost on this space
- $421,000–$512,000
- Our fee, inside it
- $16,840–$40,960
The percentage moves with scope, not with how the negotiation is going. A space with nothing to fix sits at 4%; one carrying a service upgrade, a hood path, and a $42,000 exterior interceptor sits nearer 8%. You are told which before you sign anything, and it does not move afterwards.
What we do for it
The assessment is not a sales document that stops at the verdict. It is the project’s scope, and running the project means defending it.
Your assessment becomes the project's scope
The upgrades in your report go into the permit set as scope on day one. They are not discovered in month three, and they do not arrive as change orders with a markup on them. This is the entire reason the assessment exists before the lease rather than after it.
The lease negotiation, with the numbers behind you
We hold the landlord to the tenant improvement allowance this report recommends — $289,000–$374,000. It is their engineer's number as much as it is ours, which is why it is difficult to argue with.
Permit shepherding
60–90 days of city review, run by someone who has done it in this jurisdiction. The grease interceptor and the service upgrade are the two items that draw comment, and both are already scoped and priced in your report.
Equipment ordered at the right moment
8–16 weeks lead. Ordered at permit submission, not at permit approval. This is the single most common way an opening date slips, and it is avoided by a calendar entry rather than by skill.
GC selection and oversight
Three bids per trade, scoped off the same document, so the numbers are comparable. We tell you which one is buying the job, and we hold whoever wins to the ranges in the assessment through closeout.
What we are not
We are not your architect, your GC, or your MEP engineer. We hire them, hold them to the report, and tell you when they are wrong.
We do not touch your menu, your concept, your hiring, or your P&L. You did not need us for those and we would be worse at them than you are.
We take no equity, no royalty, and no percentage of sales. When the project closes out, we are gone.
Walk the space with us
Ninety minutes at 4120 Corridor Crossing, Suite 100, with the engineer who signed the assessment and the property manager who holds the keys. Bring your equipment list and your menu. Nothing is signed on the walk — you will simply know, by the end of it, whether 3,400 SF in Selma is the room you have been describing to people for two years.
Assessment of record: 4120 Corridor Crossing, Suite 100, Selma, TX — score 72, assessed July 9, 2026 by Halvorsen Mechanical, PE #— (Texas).