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New Home Construction · Lake Worth, FL
Florida State-Certified General Contractor CGC1528750
We build new homes in Lake Worth and the City of Lake Worth Beach, and the first job is working out which building department your lot answers to: the City, or Palm Beach County for the unincorporated area to the west. Then the historic-district, wind-load and flood questions, all handled by a licensed general contractor who inspects every job himself.
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Permitting & Wind Load
“Lake Worth” covers two jurisdictions. The City of Lake Worth Beach (renamed by voters in 2019) is incorporated, with its own Building Division at 1900 2nd Avenue North and an online portal for applications, plan review and inspection scheduling. The unincorporated area west of the city is commonly called Lake Worth too, and it permits through the Palm Beach County Building Division. We check your parcel first, because the answer sets the portal, the plan-review queue and the inspectors. A licensed contractor holds the permit and carries the build through to the Certificate of Occupancy.
Lake Worth Beach fronts the Atlantic and sits in the Florida Building Code’s Wind-Borne Debris Region, so every opening on a new house must be impact-rated or shutter-protected. Design wind speeds run roughly 170–180 mph along the beach and Intracoastal and taper slightly west of Dixie Highway. The exact number depends on the parcel, so we check your address against the code before we specify products. Close to the water, salt air also shapes the choice of fasteners and finishes.
Lots, Zoning & Flood
Lots here range from narrow city parcels in the bungalow neighborhoods, where an older house comes down and a new one has to respect the street, to wider mid-century block-ranch lots west toward Military Trail. Setbacks, height and lot coverage come from the zoning district: the City’s land development regulations inside Lake Worth Beach, the county’s inside the unincorporated area. We read your survey against them before design.
Flood zone and base flood elevation are assigned parcel by parcel on FEMA’s maps, and they set the finished-floor elevation and can change foundation design and cost. We look up your parcel before design begins rather than assume it. Where a tear-down comes first, we handle demolition and site preparation too, so the lot, the structure and the roof stay under one license.
Historic Districts
Lake Worth Beach has local historic districts: College Park, Old Lucerne, Northeast Lucerne, Southeast Lucerne, South Palm Park and the Old Town Commercial District downtown. New construction, additions and demolition inside them require a Certificate of Appropriateness, submitted alongside the building permit application. The oldest housing dates from roughly 1910 to 1935, mostly wood-frame bungalows, so a new house in a district is judged against that streetscape: roof profile, window style, siding and trim. We design to the guidelines from the first sketch and we will not promise a date for a board decision.
Outside the districts and outside the city, in the unincorporated area, the gatekeeper is more often a homeowners association’s architectural review. We find out which applies before we finalize plans.
Proof
We have no new-home project to show in Lake Worth, and we will not invent one. Our confirmed local job is a wheelchair accessibility ramp at a Lake Worth Beach residence in 2025; it is a ramp, not a new house, and it shows how we plan an entry to finish flush with the threshold rather than stop short of it. You can read it at wheelchair ramps. For new construction we lead with the credential stack: Florida State-Certified General Contractor license CGC1528750, EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm #NAT-F122701-2, and BBB A+ accreditation. We hold a Palm Beach County Business Tax Receipt, not a Lake Worth Beach municipal one.
The owner is a certified energy engineer, so the envelope, insulation, air sealing, impact glazing and HVAC on a new Lake Worth home can be designed together and checked with a blower-door test. Every job carries a written one-year workmanship warranty. For the build sequence from permit to keys, see the new home construction guide.
Nearby & Next
Also in Lake Worth: once the frame is up, roofing in Lake Worth covers the roof system; if you are building inside a community, the property management page explains how associations are run; if the lot needs clearing first, see land services in Lake Worth; and for a housewarming or event, the food truck catering page is next. Building nearby? See Delray Beach, Boynton Beach or West Palm Beach.
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Questions, Answered
It depends on the parcel. The City of Lake Worth Beach has its own Building Division at 1900 2nd Avenue North with an online portal. The unincorporated area commonly called Lake Worth permits through the Palm Beach County Building Division. We check which one your lot answers to before we estimate, and a licensed contractor holds the permit through to the Certificate of Occupancy.
If it is in College Park, Old Lucerne, Northeast Lucerne, Southeast Lucerne, South Palm Park or the Old Town Commercial District, yes: new construction there requires a Certificate of Appropriateness submitted with the building permit application. We design to the district guidelines from the start and cannot promise a decision date.
Lake Worth is in the Florida Building Code Wind-Borne Debris Region, so every opening must be impact-rated or shutter-protected. Design speeds run roughly 170 to 180 mph along the beach and Intracoastal and taper slightly west of Dixie Highway. We check your exact address before specifying products.
Flood zone is assigned parcel by parcel on FEMA maps and sets the finished-floor elevation, which can change foundation design and cost. Setbacks, height and lot coverage come from the zoning district under the City or the County. We check both against your survey before design.
Yes. We handle demolition and site preparation with our own equipment, then the foundation, structure and roof under one license, CGC1528750. In a historic district the demolition itself needs review, so we raise that before anything is scheduled.
Yes. Bell Engineering and Construction Corporation holds Florida State-Certified General Contractor license CGC1528750, which allows us to contract anywhere in Florida. We are an EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm (#NAT-F122701-2), BBB A+ accredited, and every job has a written one-year workmanship warranty. We hold a Palm Beach County Business Tax Receipt but not a Lake Worth Beach municipal receipt.
Free estimates and a licensed contractor.