General Contractor in Tempe, AZ

ProWorx serves Tempe homeowners with comprehensive contracting services including kitchen remodeling, bathroom renovation, room additions, flooring installation, drywall repair, and concrete work. We also specialize in updating mid-century homes with modern amenities while preserving their architectural character. Our crews serve South Tempe, North Tempe, the ASU area, and the Tempe Town Lake corridor.

Tempe homeowners value quality, efficiency, and transparent communication — and that's exactly what ProWorx delivers. With 1,200+ completed projects, an A+ BBB rating, and 15+ years of experience, we're the contractor Tempe trusts. We also serve homeowners in neighboring Mesa, Scottsdale, Chandler, and Phoenix.

A large share of Tempe's housing is rental, and that creates a scheduling problem unique to this city: the turnover window between tenants is short, fixed, and does not move. Work that slips past it costs a landlord an entire leasing cycle, not a few days. We schedule Tempe turnover work against that calendar deliberately — paint, flooring, drywall repair, and bathroom refreshes sequenced to finish inside the gap rather than optimistically against it. For investor-owners running several properties, we plan the whole set together so trades move through in one pass instead of being mobilised separately for each address.

Much of the housing near campus and through central Tempe dates from the 1950s through 1970s, and that era has a predictable set of failure points. Cast-iron drain lines reach the end of their life and fail at the belly of the run, galvanized supply lines close up and fail at the threads, and original panels cannot carry the load a modern kitchen or a second HVAC unit demands. In rentals, these problems tend to surface as emergencies because nobody is living with the early warning signs daily. Replacing a failing drain line during a planned remodel costs a fraction of what it costs at two in the morning with water running through a ceiling.

Parts of Tempe still run flood irrigation, and homes on irrigated lots have a water exposure most Valley properties do not. When a delivery runs long, when a gate is left open, or when grading has shifted over decades, water finds its way to the slab and into the structure. The damage pattern is distinctive — it enters low and spreads laterally under flooring rather than falling from above. If your lot irrigates, the grading and the barrier between the yard and the slab matter more than they would elsewhere, and both are worth assessing before they fail rather than after.

Tempe is the most built-out city in the East Valley, and lot sizes reflect that. Setbacks, lot coverage and height limits constrain what an addition can realistically be, and on many Tempe parcels the honest answer is that expanding outward is not viable. That makes interior reconfiguration — removing a wall, relocating a kitchen, converting a garage, reworking a floor plan to gain usable space without adding footprint — the more productive conversation. We establish which of the two a property supports before any design work begins, rather than after.

Much of what we do in Tempe happens in occupied homes and occupied rentals, which changes how a job is run. Dust containment, keeping at least one bathroom in service, staging materials so an entryway stays usable, and sequencing noisy trades into reasonable hours are not luxuries in that setting — they determine whether a six-week project is tolerable. We agree the containment plan and the daily working window before work starts, and for tenanted properties we coordinate access directly with the occupant so the owner is not relaying messages.

Tempe's commercial fabric runs from street-level retail along Mill Avenue to office and light-industrial space spread through the rest of the city, and tenant improvement work here operates under constraints residential projects never face. Occupied neighbours above or alongside a space limit when noisy or dusty work can happen. Life-safety systems, accessibility requirements and occupancy classification all drive scope in ways that are not obvious from a floor plan. Landlord work letters define who pays for what, and reading them carefully before pricing prevents an uncomfortable conversation later. Most importantly, a commercial tenant is usually paying rent on space they cannot yet use, so the schedule is the deliverable as much as the build quality is. We price tenant improvements against the actual constraints of the building rather than a generic square-foot rate, and we sequence the work so inspections land when they need to rather than becoming the thing everyone waits on. See our commercial construction page for scope detail.

Water and fire losses do not wait for business hours, and in a city with this much rental occupancy the person who discovers the damage often is not the person who owns the building. We take the call either way, begin mitigation immediately, and document the loss properly for the claim while the evidence is still intact. Starting extraction within hours rather than the next morning is routinely the difference between drying a floor and replacing it.