Capitol Building in Santurce gets approvals for an 1,854 m2 office remodel on its eleventh floor

The work covers the office spaces, restrooms and elevator lobby of the eleventh floor, new furniture across the rest of the floor and some changes to the interior layout. It replaces commercial carpet, ceramic tile, ceiling tiles and gypsum board panels, with the mechanical and electrical work that goes with them.

Two approvals filed together

Both filings are dated August 26, 2026, and both are approved. One is an environmental compliance determination by categorical exclusion, which certifies that a routine action needs no further environmental planning. The other is a consolidated construction permit, which combines the construction, remodeling and demolition permits into one.

A building with a busy permit file

The property has about two dozen permit filings on record. The largest earlier project is the ICE/HSI Workplace Transformation Initiative, also an interior remodel of office space, filed in March 2025. Two of its environmental determinations were denied before a third was approved in May 2025, its construction permit is under inspection, and its single permit, which bundles the use permit and the other authorizations a business needs to operate, was approved on May 21, 2026. A single permit for the Capitol Office Building itself was approved on September 23, 2026.

The property

The property covers 3,254 m2 (35,028 sq ft). It is zoned ZU-G3 on 90% of its area and ZU-R1 on the rest, and the Puerto Rico Land Use Plan classes it as urban land. Its only recorded sale is a $1 million deed of July 3, 1998.

Permit activity in San Juan

As of October 2, 2026, San Juan had logged 724 environmental determinations of this kind in the past 12 months, down from 923 in the 12 months before, and 707 consolidated construction permits, down from 1,036. Other properties in Santurce drew 1,345 permit filings in the past 90 days.