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A retail unit earns nothing until it opens, and every day of programme is a day of lost trade. Mall fit-out adds a second set of rules on top of the authority approvals — the landlord's, and they are usually stricter.
Retail fit-out is governed by two authorities at once. The municipality or free zone approves the works; the mall or landlord approves the design, the working hours, the delivery routes and the hoarding — and can stop the job over any of them.
Shopfront and signage, display and shelving joinery, lighting and power, flooring and ceilings, back-of-house storage and staff areas, and the fire and life safety provision the unit needs in its own right. In a mall it also means building to the landlord's handover conditions.
The landlord approves the design before any authority submission, and sets the working hours, delivery and waste routes, hoarding standard and protection requirements. Work is often restricted to overnight hours while the mall trades, which lengthens the programme and should be priced accordingly.
The build is rarely the constraint — approvals and joinery lead time are. Getting the landlord's design approval and the authority permit moving in parallel with shop drawing production is what compresses a retail programme, not adding labour at the end.
Yes, with our own team. Display units, counters, shelving and shopfront joinery are drawn, cut, assembled and installed by MA Group, so a change to a display layout is handled as a site instruction rather than renegotiated with a supplier.
Describe the job and we route it internally — you do not have to work out which of our companies you need. We reply within one working day, in writing.