We build for the Care Economy
Most small businesses believe they need a building to run. They don't realize that their building is running their business.
News Flash: There’s never enough funding
Whether you are building a Veterinary Clinic, an Early Childhood Center, or a Wellness Practice, you face a shared reality: standard bank loans rarely cover the true cost of a facility where operations are complex and the environment is high-wear.
Most owners end up spending money and making tradeoffs “hoping it works” without the full picture presented to them. These decisions are costly and irreparable once the facility is built. They hurt the client experience, employee retention, and long-term maintenance costs…they hurt the bottom line.
The Common Thread: Complexity in a Retail Setting
We focus on these three sectors because they are the most demanding "high-wear" sectors in mid-size construction.
They require more than just four walls; they require:
Industrial-Grade Durability: Spaces that survive the rigors of high-traffic and regulatory cleanliness.
Clinical Precision: Environments that meet medical-grade standards without losing their "elevated" feel.
Regulatory Mastery: Navigating the life-safety and bio-security hurdles that stop most retail projects in their tracks.
While our roots are in Chicago’s luxury residential market, we have evolved to meet the needs of the city's most critical sectors. After watching project after project get cancelled for the same reasons over the past decade, we realized these spaces require more than a general contractor—they require an infrastructure strategist.
We apply the precision and relationships developed from high-end residential building to the complex demands of specialized commercial facilities, ensuring that your building supports your business.
Our Pillars of Excellence
Animal Care
Early Childhood
Wellness
We help care-driven small businesses build for profitability and scale.
Integro develops capital plans for care-driven small businesses—aligning operations, brand, and financing to position each business for long-term success.
Integro was founded on the belief that buildings should support the communities they serve.
Over the past decade, we’ve worked alongside care-driven small business owners pursuing new locations, expansions, and first-time builds. We’ve seen how projects struggle when early decisions aren’t grounded in operational reality, honest economics, and long-term thinking.
Integro focuses upstream, where alignment matters most. Following two decades of complex construction projects, our mission is to help small to mid-size businesses build in a way that supports profitability, resilience, and responsible growth.
We don’t start with construction.
We start with the business.
Integro develops capital plans that help care-driven small businesses turn an established idea into a well-built, finance-ready, and scaleable plan.
We work with care-driven small to mid-size businesses whose spaces carry real responsibility.
Our focus includes:
Early Childhood Care and Education
Animal Care and Pet-Focused Businesses
Medical-Adjacent Practices
These businesses are critical services.
The way they scale matters.
Construction is usually not the problem.
Projects struggle because 90% of a building's ROI is determined before the permit is pulled.
We ground each project in operations, capital discipline, and building science. This helps owners avoid costly missteps and create built environments that support long-term performance.
Building better is not about spending more. It’s about making smart decisions early.
Clients Can Expect
You don’t need to know all the answers.
You need the right plan.
Clear guidance before irreversable decisions
Honest conversations about cost, risk, and tradeoffs
Capital plans that support profitability and scale
Buildings designed to perform over time