Path to opening
From signed lease to doors open
7 milestones for 4120 Corridor Crossing, Suite 100. Two of them decide whether you open on the date you promised your investors, and neither one is the buildout.
Permitting
60–90 days
The city’s clock, not yours. You cannot compress it and no contractor can compress it for you.
Equipment order
8–16 weeks lead
The most common cause of schedule failure in this business. Not permits, not the GC — the hood and the walk-in arriving eight weeks after the space was ready for them.
The order below is the whole point. Order equipment at permit submission, not at permit approval — that single decision is worth roughly two months of rent you would otherwise pay on a finished room with nothing in it.
Design and permit set
4–6 weeks
Architect and MEP engineer produce the permit set. The assessment's findings go in as scope, not as change orders.
Permitting
60–90 days
City review and approval. The grease interceptor and service upgrade are the two items that draw comment; both are already scoped.
Equipment order
8–16 weeks lead
The most common cause of schedule failure. Order at permit submission, not at permit approval.
Buildout
12–16 weeks
Runs concurrent with equipment lead time. The utility's service upgrade is the long pole inside this window.
Hiring and training
4–6 weeks
Starts before the space is finished. Kitchen leadership first.
“Coming soon” marketing
6–8 weeks out
Signage, local press, and social. Begins once the opening window is credible.
Doors open
Target: Q3 2027
Friends-and-family, soft open, then full service.
This is a schedule, not a project
Nobody opens a restaurant off a list of milestones. Somebody has to hold the architect to the permit set, get the equipment ordered on the right week, and tell the GC when a number in the assessment is being quietly walked past. If you are doing that yourself while still working a job, the equipment order is the one that gets missed — every time.